I guess so. The movie topped the box office in its opening week in North America and has a few great reviews. But is it another zombie-movie-flick? A group of zombie-fanatics doesn’t think so. Because in its most basic definition, a zombie is a dead person that is reanimated by the use of voodoo, so a virus doesn’t count.
After watching the movie just yesterday, with my girlfriend of course, I could give two words to describe it. AWESOME and WTF. Ok so WTF is technically three words. Here are my own reactions and comments taking on Resident Evil: Extinction.
WARNING: spoilers ahead
- Sponsored by Sony? When they test the medicine induced zombie for signs of intelligence, he is given 3 items. A Sony Ericsson mobile phone (a phone lovable even by zombies), a Sony Cybershot digital camera (which is so easy to use, even zombies can use it), and a crappy shapes puzzle box, which ironically the only toy the zombie doesn’t like. Uhm… is it because it is not made from Sony? Even the laptops they use at the station are Sony Viao.
- Another brand plugging is K-Mart. Why the hell would they name a character with a store. She has a real name for Christ sake, which is Dahlia. And, oh you’ve probably guess it, she didn’t die in the movie.
- There are thousands of zombies around the Umbrella Corporation facility at the desert. How come their relatively small fence doesn’t break, its just a fence, not a full steel barrier.
- The AI computer, White Queen, is helping Alice near the end of the movie. If she controls the all computers in the whole facility, how come she didn’t stop the laser-cutters that almost cut Alice to shreds? The White Queen knows that Alice is the key to stopping the T-Virus and the preservation of human life which is the primary objective of the AI.
- The Tyrant is one large monster-zombie thing that killed all the personnel at the facility. Why the hell is he sneaking around for? He could just have attacked Alice directly since he knows that he can regenerate and cannot be killed. Almost.
- Judging by Alice’s actions and capability; possessing super-human strength, telekinesis, partial technokinesis, and is unaffected by the T-virus, she’s virtually un-killable.
- When the group separated, you get a cliff hanger and then you could probably say “WTF happened to the survivors?”
- I can say that only 5% of the people from the caravan survived because the helicopter can only fit a few people. So their trip to Las Vegas was definitely a suicide mission.
- If they plan to make a RE 4 sequel, then we will see a lot of Alice’s battling against a lot more of zombies. It’s an all out death match between hundreds of Alice, and thousands of Zombies.
- When they were fighting the zombiefied crows, I said to my girlfriend, “why the hell they were using guns on the birds? don’t they have some sort of a mass-kill weapon like a flamethrower?” Then when the scene with the flamethrower was shown, I said, “its about time they use their brains.”
So there, that’s my rants for the movie. Anyway, the movie is still great and worth watching (its even worth the price you paid to watch the movie).
(Alice demonstrating her control over a large fire using telekinesis, and if zombies use guns, she can probably stop bullets too.)
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