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Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)



A cacophony of abstract action-horror mayhem, this fifth entry in the video-game-inspired franchise finds superheroine Alice (Milla Jovovich) massacring zombies per usual as she attempts to escape an underwater complex. Retribution really doesn't offer anything new, if Alice remembers anything at all she probably will have a feeling of deja-vu from the previous instalments but the movie barrels along from one gory, action set-piece to another without giving the audience too long to worry about how ridiculous it all is.

Retribution’s story brings back familiar places and faces, including Michelle Rodriguez’s resurrected angel of death, and makes little sense. No matter, though from the opening viewed-in-rewind set piece to the sweeping final image of apocalyptic warfare, director Paul W.S. Anderson utilizes slow-motion 3-D to hyperbolic effect. Dressed almost identically to Selene from Underworld Milla Jovovich looks great back-flip kicking zombies, rescuing the surrogate daughter and wearing two small towels again.
As far as the film itself is concerned, little plot development seems to be done, dialogues are vapid and there is hardly any character development. People who enjoy action movies also have to think if they will really enjoy 90 minutes of frenetic action that does not really forward a story. That said, it just wasn't enough to make this reviewer glad to be sitting in the audience.

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