Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)

Alice fights alongside a resistance movement in the continuing battle against the Umbrella Corporation and the undead.

Director:

Paul W.S. Anderson

Writer:

Paul W.S. Anderson

Stars:

Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Michelle Rodriguez

2 wins & 3 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Milla Jovovich	...	Alice
Sienna Guillory	...	Jill Valentine
Michelle Rodriguez	...	Rain
Aryana Engineer	...	Becky
Bingbing Li	...	Ada Wong
Boris Kodjoe	...	Luther West
Johann Urb	...	Leon S. Kennedy
Robin Kasyanov	...	Sergei
Kevin Durand	...	Barry Burton
Ofilio Portillo	...	Tony
Oded Fehr	...	Todd / Carlos
Colin Salmon	...	James 'One' Shade
Shawn Roberts	...	Albert Wesker
Toshio Oki	...	Japanese Policeman
Takato Yamashita	...	Japanese Businessman

Storyline

Alice awakes at home with her daughter Becky and her husband. But soon she realizes that she is actually in an Umbrella Corporation's underground facility. Out of the blue, the computer security system shuts-down and Alice flees to the central control room of the facility. She meets Ada Wong, who works with Albert Wesker, and she learns that a five-man team has been sent by Wesker to rescue them. However, the Red Queen sends Jill Valentine and Rain to hunt them down.

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Plot Keywords:

umbrella | corporation | fight | rescue | resistance | 

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Taglines:

Evil goes global

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Genres:

Action | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for sequences of strong violence throughout

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site

Country:

Germany Canada USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

14 September 2012 (USA)

Also Known As:

Resident Evil 5

Filming Locations:

Times Square, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$65,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$21,052,227 (USA) (14 September 2012)

Gross:

$42,345,531 (USA) (9 November 2012)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Constantin Film International, Davis Films/Impact Pictures (RE5), Davis-Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

96 min

Sound Mix:

SDDS Dolby Digital Datasat

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

During the car chase with the Zombie Russian army the music playing is called 'Phantom Chase' by tomandandy. This references music from the original _Resident Evil (1996)_ (VG) video game, particularly 'Second Floor Mansion'.

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Goofs

When the system has to reboot, a drawer opens revealing Alice's clothing for the rest of the film. When Alice walks into the hallway her shoes are a high wedge heel, while later in the film during combat scenes, Alice's heels change from high wedges to low wedged heels.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Alice: My name is Alice. I worked for the Umbrella Corporation, the largest and most powerful commercial entity in the world. I was head of security at a secret high-tech facility called the Hive, a giant underground laboratory developing experimental, viral weaponry. There was an incident.A virus escaped. A lot of people died. The trouble was, they didn't stay dead. The computer that controlled the Hive was a state-of-the-art artificial intelligence: the Red Queen. The Red Queen ...
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Crazy Credits

In the opening credits sequence, those who are portraying characters from the video-game series, have their roles listed alongside their names. Everyone else (i.e. 'Milla Jovovich' (qv) and co.) simply have their names listed.

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Connections

Features Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)

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Soundtracks

"Axemen"
(uncredited)
Written by tomandandy
Performed by tomandandy

User Reviews

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I've been a long time fan of the Resident Evil series even when people criticized them left and right. I thought they were really entertaining, stylish and inventive. Until now. There is no way I can stick up for this movie or any reason I'd even want to. I can't really give you a synopsis cause I'm not even sure what I just watched. All I can say is that it was huge disappointment in every facet possible. Despite the silliness of the previous films they always grounded themselves in some type of realism within the reigns of its premise. This entry doesn't even feel like it's a part of the same franchise. Gone is the fun and it's been replaced with ritzy production values and no discernible storyline. It's a movie based on a video game in which they are actually part of a video game and nothing is really happening. Despite a somewhat promising start with a cool reverse battle sequence, a best of franchise film reel and an inventive and even a little scary trip into suburbia we than move on to the supposed purpose of the film which just doesn't make sense at all. I mean the choices are just astoundingly bad why make the little girl deaf and the film filled with sign language, why set it in this underground facility, why is all of this happening, with this type of technology how does the remaining human population even have a chance, how is Wesker alive and why is he good now? he's not human??? None of these questions will be answered and lets not even discuss the frustratingly awkward scenes like one in which one of the good guys has a double unnecessary death, an uninspired nod towards the Alien franchise and repetitive scenarios that get less effective the more you see them (really the squid face things). Also, the acting has never been good in the Resident Evil series but Milla Jovovich had evoked a cool sense of fierce heroine, this time around she just seems plain bored as do the other actors. Filled with insipid dialogue, questionable plotting,overlong pacing, a weird bad movie from the 90's score, mediocre fight choreography (except for the scene with the chain) and a crapload of wasted potential this movie just feels like a bad dream. Sometimes, when I'm really looking forward to a movie I'll dream about it the night before and it will be horrible well this is what this feels like. Because in no possible way, what I just watched is a resident evil movie. Despite all of my complaining the movie does have some decent scenes the suburbia one I brought up before was kinda neat, another featuring Ada and Alice against 2 ax men and the chain fight in Tokyo. Besides that it's all just a big plodding waste of existential cinematic trash. A brainless, soulless unintentionally funny horror/action/sci fi hybrid that despite a larger budget,returning cast members and more impressive production values feels like an overlong filler episode that leaves me with a big question mark. Why has this happened to my beloved franchise???