Resident Evil: Extinction

Ok, another late review and for another action/horror movie I didn't care for...

I don't think this was anywhere near as bad as Saw 4. Let me just get that out of the way right now. Now, this had a lot of potential and thus far, I'd loved the prior movies. I was really excited about this one to come out! It had all the buzz it needed and deserved, but I feel like it kind of fell flat after that.

The plot isn't something that's going to be too in-depth. It's a Resident Evil movie. Its storyline loosely follows the Resident Evil video games that first appeared on Sony's Playstation game system. I had 3 issues that I really felt just didn't work in the movie.

1. The scene with the crows: If you've got like a million crows flying just overhead and threatening to tear you to ribbons, are you really going to take the time to sit and fire a handgun into the massive cloud of crows swarming around? It's like seeing a tidal wave coming towards you and taking a teacup and starting to scoop the water up. You run! You don't stop and shoot 2 birds while their 5,304,394 brothers and sisters get ready to attack.

2. The scene where zombies start piling out of the 30-foot container. Ok, granted they are zombies and you can probably smash 'em in pretty tight and not care too much about their complaining, but come on... What was it?!?! Was it the storage container version of a circus clown car??? SO many kept coming out of the container there was no way more could be inside. Yet they kept coming. If there were some sort of dimensional portal in the container, I could suspend my beliefs and accept it. IF they mentioned it. Now when they just keep coming, it's a little tougher without explanation.

3. The "big finale" of a fight was really the most anticlimactic part of all. It just wasn't much of a challenge. I thought it was a pretty cool fight scene, granted, but it felt nothing like the end of the movie. I was really in a state of disbelief when the credits started rolling! I knew that couldn't have been the end of the movie. It didn't even feel close to finished. The ending was so lackluster I couldn't believe it! I really felt like that final fight scene was just working into another situation where they'd really have their go at it. No such luck.

Kind of a disappointment, but there was some cool action in it, for what action there was. Not really up to par with the prior RE movies.