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[CREMSteve]

This is it. This is the point of no return for the series. I think Retribution is, finally, the film in the series that completely drops the flimsy pretense of realism, stakes, and narrative that existed to varying degrees in the previous four films. This is finally the film that accepts what it is: an over-the-top cheesy action schlock-fest. Prior to this, the series flirted with the schlock while keeping within the structure of what people usually consider a film. Remember when the series had some initial semblance of being grounded thrillers that built up to the crazy shit slowly? Someone said that Extinction felt the most like a "movie". Well, I'd give that distinction primarily to the first film, but Extinction tried, as well. I think the signs were there. Sure, we looked past the parts in Apocalypse with Alice running down the side of a skyscraper and karate-chopping the shark (or Nemesis, whatever). In Extinction Alice had wild telekinetic powers, but it was okay because its use was limited and subsequently thrown out in the next film. You could even make a similar arguement of Afterlife if you ignored the bat-shit crazy opening sequence, in which Alice walks away from a plane crash unscathed. But Retribution just lets it all hang out: numerous desperate call-backs to previous films, clone factories, zero-stakes car chases, no new enemies but bigger/twice the number of old baddies, gun-toting zombies (fuck you, RE5), car-driving zombies (fuck you, RE5), an increased amount of slow-mo wire-fu, and an incredibly drawn-out and hilariously unnecessary final battle in which the hero walks away from certain death with relatively minor injuries while the villain is taken out in the most ludicrous of fashions. There were

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swimming zombies

, for pete's sake. MY LORD.

Oh man, this movie is so bad. It is so good.

The acting is terrible, the main protags aside from Alice have practically no depth whatsoever while the ancillary cast of characters, some being familiar faces, come and go with barely a hint of an afterthought. Oh, Oded Fehr, they gave you nothing to work with. Remember when you were Gigolo guy? Michelle Rodriguez was given a tiny bit more to do besides snarl and shoot things, fortunately. Leon Kennedy, why do you look like Woody Harrelson? Ada Wong, did you learn your lines phonetically? Barry Burton, I can't remember if you had any lines. You went out like a champ, though. Jill Valentine, the 'shoot-glowing-weakness-thing' on your chest could use more protection. At least zip up your jumpsuit some, it's cold out.

The locales are very reminiscent of a video game progression of disparately themed levels. Really, the segmented domes of this new Umbrella base is very much like an old school video game's themed areas, with a central hub of sorts to connect each place; the geography-based, non-elemental equivalent of 'lava level, water level, ice level, boring level' and so on.

The plot? What plot? Escape from evil science base again, Alice, because we need you for something something...hold on this time there's a car chase sequence inside the Umbrella base! Who needs new villains? We have a giant licker and TWO axe-wielding majinis!

I was almost fooled during the first 15 minutes, where I thought Anderson had something genuinely interesting in store for us. The low-key open leading into a slow-mo reverse action sequence was pretty cool. I went in knowing about the

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clones

, but I wasn't sure what to expect from the scenes featuring Alice in suburban bliss. Well, my curiosity was short-lived, once they kicked things into HIGH-GEAR, I turned off the part of my brain that modulated logic and expectations.

By the time we see

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Wesker

casually sitting in the

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President's oval office

, I had already given up wondering if I was dreaming.

You know, a while ago I made some rather snide remarks regarding the RE games becoming the interactive equivalents of the RE film series, but Retribution has taken it up a notch. The games have become what the movies were -- at least they have a semi-logical progression of story beats. The movies have ascended into some weird heaven where straight-to-dvd films are reincarnated as stuff like this.

Will there be another one? I hope there's another one.

Agree with this post 100%.

Enjoyed the hell out of the movie, as bad and ridiculous as it was. Keep 'em comin!

 

[Kagari]

I was wondering that, too, which lead to my prediction.

That would also play into

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Wesker suddenly being a "good guy" despite his actions in Extinction and Afterlife, and then the random return of Red Queen.

Of course, trying to read into the plot is probably pointless. lol

 

[judhudson]

That would also play into

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Wesker suddenly being a "good guy" despite his actions in Extinction and Afterlife, and then the random return of Red Queen.

Of course, trying to read into the plot is probably pointless. lol

Question about

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Wesker

I can't remember - but in the movie was it stated during his hologram speeches if the one in Part 4 was actually him, or a clone of him?

So we're dealing with 2 different Weskers, right?

The novel says it was a clone of him, but I'm not sure if the movie stated that.

 

[Kagari]

Question about

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Wesker

I can't remember - but in the movie was it stated during his hologram speeches if the one in Part 4 was actually him, or a clone of him?

So we're dealing with 2 different Weskers, right?

The novel says it was a clone of him, but I'm not sure if the movie stated that.

That was not stated in the movie... so it probably something they cut out? I'm not sure, but unless I missed it somehow.

 

[jmdajr]

Wow already 71 million world wide. 65 mil to make.

 

[Amagon]

Saw this movie on Monday, really wanted to walk out during the middle of it. I didn't had fun at all watching it. Easily the worst Resident Evil movie by far and the second worst movie I've seen this year. (The Bourne Legacy is no.1) The one positive thing about this movie is the OST.

Looks like they are making the next film that last one. Really don't know if I'll watch it on theaters or wait til home release.

Edit: Make it two positives of this film due to me liking Barry's presence in the movie.

 

[Wozzly]

Saw this movie on Monday, really wanted to walk out during the middle of it. I didn't had fun at all watching it. Easily the worst Resident Evil movie by far and the second worst movie I've seen this year. (The Bourne Legacy is no.1) The one positive thing about this movie is the OST.

Looks like they are making the next film that last one. Really don't know if I'll watch it on theaters or wait til home release.

Edit: Make it two positives of this film due to me liking Barry's presence in the movie.

I thought about walking out of it too. I am a diehard Resident Evil fan since I first played the PS1 game way back when. Now, the first Resident Evil movie is by far the BEST. Apocalypse had a ton of potential but was ok. Extinction was the film I hated the most, then came Afterlife which I still thought was better. After seeing Retribution it now takes the title of the worst one. It wasn't even enjoyable. It was loud and boring. Why bring back One and Rain for nothing but "Hey look!!! Remember them??!" I hated the Red Queen throwback and why for crying out loud did they have to show her face every single time they entered a new location. All she did was announce "activate bioweapons."

And Wesker. Terrible. Do they purposefully make the characters look like a group of bad cosplayers? Barry Burton, one of my favorite characters form the games is now a wise cracking fool. Ada. well they just shoved her in there for god knows why. Jill Valentine, I wonder if Anderson even thinks the average movie goer even remembers her since the last time she was in the series back in 2004! Oh and her brief 2 second cameo at the end of Afterlife. It was a mess. That movie made my ears hurt too from the constant gun fire going on.

 

[Replicant]

Wow already 71 million world wide. 65 mil to make.

LOL. The 6th film confirmed then?

 

[Puddles]

I wish they would reboot this series and give it to a decent horror director, like Alexandre Aja, or the guy who made Martyrs.

One of those disturbed French directors could make one hell of a fucking movie with the Resident Evil mythos, provided they were allowed to jettison everyone that uberhack Paul W.S. Anderson has done so far.

Edit: film already made a profit? Fuck my dreams.

 

[cvxfreak]

That was not stated in the movie... so it probably something they cut out? I'm not sure, but unless I missed it somehow.

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I thought Wesker survived RE4 by parachuting out of the plane at the last minute.

 

[Deleted member 30609]

I actually start falling asleep during the action sequences in these movies. I'm not being dramatic. my body actually starts shutting down. It's remarkable.

 

[dragonlife]

Me and my sister always watch these movies. We hated the previous one, but went to see this one anyway, knowing it would probably be awful--and, man, was it awful. That was part of the fun for us, I guess.

I can't believe how shitty this was. It was so pointless.

 

[Robot 492]

I wish they would reboot this series and give it to a decent horror director, like Alexandre Aja, or the guy who made Martyrs.

One of those disturbed French directors could make one hell of a fucking movie with the Resident Evil mythos, provided they were allowed to jettison everyone that uberhack Paul W.S. Anderson has done so far.

Edit: film already made a profit? Fuck my dreams.

Anderson is not a hack. He & his crew enjoy making these movies.

 

[Count Dookkake]

LOL. The 6th film confirmed then?

There was never any doubt.

 

[snoopen]

God.. this movie was terrible. It was super cheap ($5) and i regret paying.

My friend and I couldn't stop laughing everytime the

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red queen

popped up to contribute absolutely nothing at all.

That Asian chick seemed to have her voice dubbed, it was noticeably out of sync with her lips.

 

[BattleMonkey]

I wish they would reboot this series and give it to a decent horror director, like Alexandre Aja, or the guy who made Martyrs.

One of those disturbed French directors could make one hell of a fucking movie with the Resident Evil mythos, provided they were allowed to jettison everyone that uberhack Paul W.S. Anderson has done so far.

Edit: film already made a profit? Fuck my dreams.

Those directors? lol. No they want to make money, not pretentious torture porn.

 

[Puddles]

Anderson is not a hack. He & his crew enjoy making these movies.

Hack: a person, as an artist or writer, who exploits, for money, his or her creative ability or training in the production of dull, unimaginative, and trite work; one who produces banal and mediocre work in the hope of gaining commercial success in the arts. Eg: As a painter, he was little more than a hack.

Maybe he doesn't fit the definition entirely, but he damn sure fits the "dull, unimaginative, and trite... banal and mediocre" part of it. Michael Bay is more of a true "hack," but Anderson isn't far behind.

Aside from Event Horizon, he has produced mediocre-to-terrible work as a rule. He makes no effort to improve in his craft, and he seems perfectly content to churn out this tripe as long as it makes its budget back.

 

[Tricky I Shadow]

I think this is one of the stronger entries....I also thought

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Ada, Leon and Barry

did a solid job.

Resident Evil >>>>>> Apocalypse > Retribution >>>>>>>>>>>>> Afterlife >> Extinction.

 

[Christopher]

The thing that got me out of the series is when they gave Alice super powers...I think had the series stayed a bit more groudned in reality then it would be awesome.

I just say 28 Weeks later and it scared the crap out of me...why couldnt' Resident Evil have this feeling of scare/horror. There are no consiquences with these films if someone dies they can be a clone or recreated or given super powers or take 1,000,000 bullets to the face and won't die.

 

[Squall ASF]

Marathon-ed the series leading up to last weekend and saw this on Saturday. I think this might be my favorite entry or at least right up there with the first movie. This entry just was a lot of fun and had a lot of entertaining action scenes. I really like the film intros lately, about the only place Anderson uses any creativity haha I loved the giant licker and wanted something along those lines for all the films though it cracks me up how inconsistent lickers are in this film series. Starts out fairly large and intimidating in the first film, then scrawny virtual non-threats in the second, and now the mega deluxe model for this film. I enjoyed the music and found it suiting as a companion to the visuals. Just an over all fun movie. You of course have to go in with the right mindset as these aren't 'quality' films but I'm glad many of you in this thread feel the same and were able to enjoy yourselves. Also, cracked me up seeing Wesker sitting in a special seat at the end hahaha oh man, the next film will be crazy. GLOBAL SATURATION.

 

[Mr_Zombie]

I just say 28 Weeks later and it scared the crap out of me...

I'm still saying the 28 Days Later was the best non-RE Resident Evil movie. Just replace the laboratory scene at the beginning, turn those soldiers from the second part of the movie into UBSC mercenaries and add a B.O.W. or two and voilà, you have a perfect RE movie.

 

[Kagari]

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I thought Wesker survived RE4 by parachuting out of the plane at the last minute.

Yeah. It seems the novel is inconsistent.

 

[NotTheGuyYouKill]

Maggie Q should have played Ada. She would have been perfect. Whoever they have now is just... genuinely terrible. Not fun-terrible, just terrible-terrible. Ada was always so sexy and sly, her actress portrayed none of that.

Maggie Q for life:

 

[Slurpy2k20]

I have enjoyed all the Resident Evil movies to date, and am sad to say I was looking forward to this one. What an absolute piece of trash, and it's not like my standards for RE movies are high. Some of the worst and most wooden acting I've EVER seen (Ada Wong what the fuck? How the fuck does a person with this little skill get that role?) with the shittiest, most boring plot ever. I sighed when I realized the entire movie would be spent traversing the facility, but even at that point I assumed it would be infinitely more interesting than it ended up being. Half the movie is fucking machine gun fire. Everything was soulless, and nobody had any good lines or roles to work with. Utterly shitty in every respect. LITERALLY the only scene that was any good was the 5 second pan before the credits, and the intro slow mo scene. Literally. Why the fuck embark on making a movie, if you don't have a shred of a good idea? RE movies have always been campy, but at least enjoyable with a handful is slick scenes. This had nothing. It made all previous entries look like works of fucking art, thats how bad and useless it was. I TRIED to enjoy it, but just gave up.

The disappointment of this movie is only next to Bourne Legacy, and only because that series had a much longer way to fall. What's up with insanely shitty franchise movies there days? Like, how do they give so little of a fuck towards making something half decent?

 

[Evolved1]

Maggie Q should have played Ada. She would have been perfect. Whoever they have now is just... genuinely terrible. Not fun-terrible, just terrible-terrible. Ada was always so sexy and sly, her actress portrayed none of that.

Maggie Q for life:

I really do not like her and would've gagged is she was Ada... so great choice she'd fit right in with all the other casting.

 

[NotTheGuyYouKill]

I really do not like her and would've gagged is she was Ada... so great choice she'd fit right in with all the other casting.

You are just terrible. She's amazing in Nikita.

 

[Deleted member 20920]

Oh, Alice...

how much further down the rabbit hole will we go? Maybe Wesker's her chief physician, which is why she villifies him so much.

She also happens to be a huge RE fan and has taken to appropriating RE characters into her coma/dream/whatever state she's in and renaming all the people she knows with RE names. Explains why most people aren't like their game counterparts.

 

[BPRD]

oh my god this movie was worse than DOOM! how do you make a movie worse than DOOM?!

DOOM still has the worst quote:
"you should of been looking through a microscope instead of a sniper scope."
still makes me embarrassed for that actor years later

 

[Replicant]

Finally saw this. AHAHAHA OH WOW.

The movie's lack of logic is kinda worrying and refreshing at the same time. I mean seriously, they couldn't be bothered to

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set free Chris, Claire, and the whole lot of Arcadia people before destroying umbrella's hive?

. Of course it won't matter in the next film since the characters I mentioned will probably just appear out of nowhere.

Also, Leon is such a sleaze in this one. I actually kind of like him better like this. I'm so over his shy and reserved boyscout personality with puppy-crush on Ada in the game. At least in this film he makes it obvious that he wants her. OTOH, they completely change Ada from total vixen to this wallflower kind of girl in the film.

Having said that, the film had a craaaazy ending and I'll definitely come for the final installment of this series. Also, I can see where Resident Evil 6 get their inspiration for zombies with gun. Capcom sure is trolling everyone with that.

 

[cj_iwakura]

Finally saw it today. Definitely up to RE1's par. Loved the fan service.

God Michelle is so awesome at playing a crazy b. I'd watch an entire Rain film.


Shame Wesker had so little time, but the stuff he had was great.

Barry: ****-
Ada: *****
Leon: **---

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Barry went out like a damn boss. Desert Eagle!

Killing him! D: Foolish.

I'll be there for RE6. Never let anyone else do it, Anderson.

 

[ryutaro's mama]

This is both the best and worst RE at the same time.

The

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Aliens rip-offs were so gotdamn hilarious.

Ripley, er Alice finding a kid and becoming a surrogate mother? CHECK

Ripley, er Alice running off after the xenomorph, er Licker that drags the little girl away to cocoon, not kill her? CHECK

Ripley, er Alice finding the slimy backpack that helps her find the little girl? CHECK

Ripley, er Alice finding a kid pulling her out of slimy cocoon? CHECK

Ripley, er Alice having to shoot a rabid Facehugger, er Jill Spider Thingy running at her? CHECK

BRING ON RE6

 

[Tyree]

Is it me or did the

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Zerg

show up at the end?

 

[Net_Wrecker]

Bahahaha, this movie is ridiculous. It sits in some weird area of "So bad it's mediocre." It's not really cheesy fun, but at the same time it's bad enough to just manage to be entertaining if you're into these dumb action movies. The sad part is that a better director could make a legitimately fun movie with this over the top script and goofy characters. There's too much slow mo + dumb wire fu to make the action thrilling, and not enough character interaction + one liners to make them endearing.

 

[BigBlackGamer]

I thought the movie was close to being the best in the series. (not hard I know)

me and my friend's left the movie theater and my boy was like "uhhh was it just me or was that pretty good".

don't get me wrong the movie is still dumb as hell but shit....it's stupid fun.

 

[Plasticine]

He did it. Paul WS Anderson has finally evolved beyond traditional movies. He's flirted with it for a while, but he's finally done it. This was some weird big-budgeted anti-movie. There wasn't a pretense of story. narrative logic, set-ups and pay-offs or character development. Its 96 minutes of mindless action, monsters, zombies and Milla Jovovich... and it was pretty great. There was a fucking flaming zombie, on a motorcycle, firing a rocket launcher for fuck's sake. How could that not warm your heart? The ending was flat-out batshit insane, and I can't wait to see how they deal with it in the next film. I'm sure it'll be a letdown, but I'll be there regardless.

 

[Redux]

Went into it tonight expecting mindless action, and butchering. Got it, plus some nice Matrix-style scenes (majority of the fighting.)
As for Ada, wearing a tight little red dress like that, exposing those legs more should have been their main priority!

Think we all know a director will come along in the next decade and give us a proper Resident Evil movie.

The predictable one-liners :lol

Can easily see why people say this film is trash, especially if you're a big fan of the game series.

What I don't get is, how can GAF get behind a shitty movie series like the Expendables, but not this?

 

[Jzero]

Just watched the movie today and it wasn't so bad. The ending was definitely way better than the beginning-middle though.

 

[Kagari]

Retribution is at $137m worldwide now.

 

[jett]

A friend invited me over to the movies and this was the only thing available at the time slot. :lol

Last one I watched was RE2, so I was more or less lost, even with the cliff notes there at the start, haha. Man, what a ridiculous movie. I don't know how else to describe it. Plot and characters don't exist here. Just weird people doing weird stuff in a weird place. It was sort of enjoyable, in a way, somehow, a little...I suppose? I really liked the slomo opening, it looked pretty fantastic in 3D. During the intro I thought to myself "oh wow this might actually be pretty good", but then the movie goes downhill pretty quickly. It's like they blew most of their budget in those five minutes. It was visually really cool and effective. The rest movie is not.

If you've watched all the others you might as well watch this one, lol. I liked the references to games, as superficial as they were. But yeah this movie is nonsense. I continue to be baffled by the success of this franchise, but if people like it more power to them.

 

[PowderedToast]

internet, please stop claiming that michael bay is a hack. it's not true.

the jury is still out on paul anderson for me, but he seems to have some semblance of spark and craft in him. he's nowhere near chris columbus level.

 

[jett]

internet, please stop claiming that michael bay is a hack. it's not true.

the jury is still out on paul anderson for me, but he seems to have some semblance of spark and craft in him. he's nowhere near chris columbus level.

I'll say this much about the guy, he knows how to shoot in 3D. It's unfortunate he doesn't know how to write a screenplay, in any dimension.

 

[jmdajr]

So I saw both Dredd and Re this weekend. And while I know without a doubt that Dredd is the superior film, but I had more "fun" watching RE. Yeah it's silly, but it's such a guilty of pleasure of mine enjoying these movies. I can't stay away!

Oh..and the box office is up to $136,868,000

Looking forward to the next one

 

[G-Fex]

I liked it there's certain things I didn't like . I.E. Michelle Rodriguez

But I liked it.

 

[Kagari]

So I saw both Dredd and Re this weekend. And while I know without a doubt that Dredd is the superior film, but I had more "fun" watching RE. Yeah it's silly, but it's such a guilty of pleasure of mine enjoying these movies. I can't stay away!

Oh..and the box office is up to $136,868,000

Looking forward to the next one

$175 million now.

 

[Medalion]

I watched this movie today on a small theatre version of IMAX in 3D

It wasn't my first choice for a movie, but I was spending time with family but didn't want to see their movie so I picked a movie that was the least offensive

The movie is nice to look at, nice action I guess

but the movie is really not that good

It's cheesy as hell as I can spot a million references to Terminator 2, Aliens, Perfect Dark, The Matrix etc etc

Not worth paying nearly $20 for a movie ticket

 

[Anustart]

Went to see this on friday. Walked out about 30 minutes in. I enjoyed the other 4, but this one was just terrible.

 

[Escape Goat]

I watched this movie today on a small theatre version of IMAX in 3D

It wasn't my first choice for a movie, but I was spending time with family but didn't want to see their movie so I picked a movie that was the least offensive

The movie is nice to look at, nice action I guess

but the movie is really not that good

It's cheesy as hell as I can spot a million references to Terminator 2, Aliens, Perfect Dark, The Matrix etc etc

Not worth paying nearly $20 for a movie ticket

Resident Evil was the least offensive movie you could come up with? LOL

 

[Razgriz-Specter]

And Wesker. Terrible. Do they purposefully make the characters look like a group of bad cosplayers?

Id take cosplayer costumes over whatever the hell this was.

couldn't even get some green in there?

Im kinda divided after finally seeing it.
part of me thinks it was the best RE movie, the other the worst.

 

[Imbarkus]

Sorry for the bump but me and the kids just saw this tonight, at the dollar theatre. With a buy one get one free ticket. And free popcorn with a drink purchase. I guess I was in the right mood for this stupid fun, because I enjoyed myself, but there was just a lot of dumb to have to forgive. This series went off the tracks when the T-Virus swept the world two movies ago. It's like some alternate reality movie series.

I mean, the plot of the game is LESS INSANE than the movies based on the game. How often does that happen?

In the game, you have to pry the

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mind control device off Jill

to set her free, and it's difficult and takes a long time. In the movie,

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a quick snatch and grab!

I was like, fuck, Alice. You never thought of that the whole pointless kick ass fight you just had for ten minutes?

I couldn't help it, I started laughing imagining dialog onto that last fight:
"I have an extendo-staff!"
"Well, I have these scythes... apparently!"
"Oh yeah, well my extendo-staff has nasty extendo-tip extendo-blades. Watch them extend!"

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"Gimme me that mind control spider!" *Yoink!*

"aaaaaaaarrrrgggh!"

I want them to finish this series with the final battle, and a good final Wesker battle. Then, wait three years, and reboot the thing with the REmake as your inspiration.

i.e. NEXT TIME, less of this:

and more of this:

And, for a movie series seeming to try and stay a bit more faithful to the source material RIGHT NOW, I shall look forward to this:

 

[cj_iwakura]

I am VERY excited for Silent Hill 3 Revelations, though I wish Gans was directing again.

The trailer also used SH2 music, always a good sign.



Anyone doing the OT?