Level two is rainy Tokyo, which ends with a boss fight against not one, but two beasts with massive spiky hammers. Level one is Umbrella's well-lit headquarters. The first half of the film solely involves Alice moving from room to room, killing zombies.
Not since the first-person shooter sequence in "Doom" has a movie so resembled a video game on screen. She, as well as the rescue team sent to save her, must fight their way through multiple waves of bad guys, a few of which include former teammates gone bad (including Michelle Rodriguez and Oded Fehr). The somehow fifth installment of the undying "Resident Evil" franchise continues the adventures of Alice (Milla Jovovich) as she attempts to take down the ludicrously diabolical Umbrella Corporation (they don't seem to understand that no one can buy your products if everyone is dead).Īfter an admittedly slick opening credits sequence followed by a far less slick five-minute montage of exposition to explain what happened in the last four films (it doesn't help anything make more sense), it's back to the back flips and machine guns as Alice must escape an underground Umbrella lab in snowy Russia. It's one of those magical movies that manages to do so much wrong but in the best, most entertaining ways possible. "Resident Evil: Retribution," on the other hand, is just as hilarious as it sounds.
Every time I explained "Branded"'s plot to people, I would have to keep repeating "It's not as hilarious as it sounds." Despite these seemingly ridiculous elements, however, the movie is somehow no fun at all. Last week, I reviewed a movie called "Branded," a terrible little film about evil corporations, narrating space cows and evil blob monsters made of brands.