#4 Resident Evil: Afterlife
December 30th 2010 16:24
The 4th movie on my quest is Resident Evil: After Life. Evil stars Milla Jovovich and Ali Larter. The movie is directed by Paul Anderson.Anderson directed the first Evil and Death Race.
After the events of Resident Evil: Extinction, the Alice clones (Milla Jovovich) attempt to kill Albert Wesker (Shawn Roberts) at his base in Tokyo. All present clones are killed by a purge bomb, activated by Wesker as he escapes the facility in an aircraft. The original Alice ambushes him, but Wesker injects her with a serum that neutralizes the T-virus in her system, eliminating her superhuman powers and making her human again. He reveals that his T-Virus powers have surpassed her own, but before he can kill her, the aircraft crashes and Alice escapes from the wreckage.
Six months later, Alice follows a repeating emergency broadcast from a survivors' safe haven known as "Arcadia" in Alaska. After many fruitless months searching for Arcadia and finding no survivors along the way, Alice begins to lose hope, believing herself to be the last surviving human on the planet. Stopping on an abandoned beach, Alice finds the helicopter taken by Claire Redfield (Ali Larter), K-Mart (Spencer Locke), and the others when they and Alice parted ways. A crazed Claire, under the influence of an Umbrella Corporation device attached to her chest, attacks her. Alice removes the device, and discovers that it has damaged Claire's memory.
Flying a two-seater plane, they enter the ruins of Los Angeles and find a small group of survivors, led by Luther West (Boris Kodjoe) living in a maximum security prison, surrounded by the undead. Alice crash lands the plane on the roof of the prison and learns that Arcadia is not a fixed place but actually a cargo tanker traveling along the coast. Since the plane cannot take more than two, Alice and the survivors try to figure out a means to make it to Arcadia together. The survivors have been keeping watch on a prisoner, Claire's brother Chris (Wentworth Miller), whom they found locked in a maximum security cell when they arrived. He says that he is a soldier who fought the early outbreak, but was locked up by prisoners as a cruel joke when the mission failed and knows a way to reach the coast, and thereby Arcadia, but will not reveal it unless he is released.
They do not believe him, and keep him locked up until the undead manage to tunnel through the sewer ways and up into the prison, and a giant axe wielding monster (The Executioner) starts to break down the front gate; Alice and survivors are out of time to find a means to reach Arcadia so they decide to free Chris and use his escape route. He recognizes Claire and reveals himself as her brother, though she does not remember him. Chris' proposes using a military vehicle, stored in the prison, but the group quickly discover that its engine was removed for maintenance. Meanwhile, the Executioner enters the front gate. It knocks out Alice, then Claire shoots it with the shotgun. Alice awakens, only to save Claire from the Executioner throwing the axe at her. Alice then blows it's head away with the shotgun. Panicking, Bennett - one of the survivors - abandons the rest of the group and uses the plane to escape. The remaining group has no choice but to escape using the sewer tunnel. The group take numerous casualties - Luther is trapped when the tunnel caves in - only Alice, Claire, and Chris manage to escape through the sewers to the ocean.
They continue to the Arcadia, finding the ship completely functional but abandoned, even though the manifest lists more than 2000 survivors on board. Exploring its inner depths, they realize that it is a trap set by Umbrella to lure survivors to the ship to conduct experiments on them. Claire now remembers what happened to her group when they arrived to Alaska: Umbrella ambushed their group when they landed on the beach and attached the devices to them, though she managed to escape. They begin releasing survivors, among them K-Mart, while Alice discovers a blood trail and continues deeper into the ship, finding helicopters and another purge bomb. Deeper inward, she finds Wesker, who explains that the T-virus gave him incredible powers, but he is constantly at war with the T-virus for control. In order to keep the T-virus under control, Wesker regularly ate fresh human DNA, scaring the Umbrella employees into deserting the ship. He hopes to gain control of the virus by eating Alice, the only individual to bond successfully with the T-virus on a cellular level.
Chris and Claire arrive and attack Wesker while Alice battles two dogs and Bennett. The super-powered Wesker easily overpowers Chris and Claire and turns to fight Alice. Alice manages to stun Wesker with a direct shotgun blast to the head, and is left for dead. Wesker regenerates and escapes by helicopter, activating the purge bomb on the Arcadia in an attempt to destroy the ship and kill the remaining survivors. Anticipating Wesker's actions, Alice had hidden the bomb aboard his helicopter, which is destroyed as she watches from the deck of the Arcadia with Claire and Chris. Unknown to the heroes, a figure parachutes away from the destruction unnoticed. Elsewhere, Luther West emerges from the sewers, having escaped his infected attackers.
Alice resolves to turn Arcadia into a real safe haven and broadcasts its message for any other survivors. As Claire, Chris, and Alice decide how to proceed with all the survivors, they see an approaching Umbrella assault helicopter squadron led by Jill Valentine (Sienna Guillory), who is under the control of the same Umbrella device used on Claire.
This was a decent movie. Of course not the best Resident Evil but it was okay. I could see my self watching it again. I give it a 5.5 on my scale.
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