Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)

While still out to destroy the evil Umbrella Corporation, Alice joins a group of survivors living in a prison surrounded by the infected who also want to relocate to the mysterious but supposedly unharmed safe haven known only as Arcadia.

Director:

Paul W.S. Anderson

Writer:

Paul W.S. Anderson

Stars:

Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Wentworth Miller

2 wins & 8 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Milla Jovovich	...	Alice
Ali Larter	...	Claire Redfield
Kim Coates	...	Bennett
Shawn Roberts	...	Albert Wesker
Sergio Peris-Mencheta	...	Angel
Spencer Locke	...	K-Mart
Boris Kodjoe	...	Luther
Wentworth Miller	...	Chris Redfield
Sienna Guillory	...	Jill Valentine
Kacey Clarke	...	Crystal Waters (as Kacey Barnfield)
Norman Yeung	...	Kim Yong
Fulvio Cecere	...	Wendell
Raymond Olubawale	...	Axeman (as Ray Olubowale)
Christopher Kano	...	Sniper #1
Tatsuya Goke	...	Sniper #2

Storyline

In a world ravaged by a virus infection, turning its victims into the Undead, Alice (Jovovich), continues on her journey to find survivors and lead them to safety. Her deadly battle with the Umbrella Corporation reaches new heights, but Alice gets some unexpected help from an old friend. A new lead that promises a safe haven from the Undead takes them to Los Angeles, but when they arrive the city is overrun by thousands of Undead - and Alice and her comrades are about to step into a deadly trap.

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Plot Keywords:

siege | ship | alaska | female gunfighter | mutation | 

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Taglines:

September 10 Experience a New Dimension of Evil

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Horror | Sci-Fi

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for sequences of strong violence and language

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site

Country:

Germany France USA Canada UK

Language:

English Japanese Spanish

Release Date:

10 September 2010 (USA)

Also Known As:

Resident Evil 4

Filming Locations:

Cinespace Film Studios, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Box Office

Budget:

$60,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$26,650,264, 12 September 2010, Wide Release

Gross USA:

$60,128,566

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$296,221,663

Company Credits

Production Co:

Constantin Film, Davis-Films, Impact Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

96 min

Sound Mix:

SDDS DTS Dolby Digital Dolby Surround 7.1

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.39 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

(at around 20 mins) When Alice lands at the Alaskan airfield filled with planes, there was in reality only 7 planes in the shot. The rest were added in digitally.

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Goofs

Before the opening fight scene, we can see the guards running towards the entrance past a row of Hummer H2's. But after Alice blows the second group away and takes out those cars, they all of a sudden change to H1's. Also it can't be one from the opposite end, because those have a pick-up truck rear end, and the one lying on its side has a slanted back end.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Alice: [narrating] My name is Alice. I worked for the Umbrella Corporation in a secret laboratory developing experimental viral weaponry. There was an incident. A virus escaped. Everybody died. Trouble was, they didn't stay dead. This was the start of an apocalypse that would sweep the entire world. The men responsible for this disaster took refuge underground and continued to experiment with the deadly T-Virus. They felt secure in their high-tech fortress. But they were wrong.

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Crazy Credits

SPOILER WARNING: After about a 1 minute or so of end credits there comes a surprise scene with Jill Valentine, even though Sienna Guillory receives screen credit before the scene appears.

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Alternate Versions

Dutch DVD is cut for violence (even more than the German theatrical version).

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Connections

Followed by Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)

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Soundtracks

Outsider (Apocalypse Remix)
Written by Maynard James Keenan & Billy Howerdel
Performed by A Perfect Circle
Courtesy of Virgin Records America
Under license from EMI Film & Television Music

User Reviews

How much more ridiculous can these movies get?

Let me be clear, despite my slightly positive rating, Resident Evil: Afterlife is in no way a "good" movie. But it is entertaining, in a ridiculous, inexplicable way.

I'm a fan of this series, even though that admission would probably cause some people to doubt any and all of my credibility when it comes to movies. The last three RE flicks were just dumb, fun action movies with zombies, and I could appreciate them for what they were. No, they don't follow the games very closely, and no they weren't scary in the slightest, but I still liked them (to varying degrees). Milla Jovovich is a credible and likable action star and seeing her jumping through the air, kicking and shooting things in the face never really got old, for me. Plus, this series has a habit of including some pretty hot actresses in each installment (including this one), which I heartily approve of. 

Afterlife, to be quite honest, is a train-wreck. But, it's like a train-wreck where no one gets injured, and the train cars do some crazy flips in slow motion and there are tons of explosions and everyone who happened to see it had a pretty good time watching it. Writer and director Paul W.S. Anderson has completely (and wisely) given up on trying to make these movies make sense in the slightest way, and let all logic fall right off the B- movie cliff. There's just so many cheesy, absurd things going on at any given moment that it's almost an overload. The almost constant slow motion, the AWFUL acting, the absurd dialogue, the concrete-tunneling zombies, the guarantee that exactly every 3 minutes, a zombie or monster was going to magically appear behind a character and kill/almost kill them, the random elements from the games strewn about haphazardly...it's all just so ridiculous.

This truly awful movie appealed to me in a perverse way. It certainly didn't bore me, that's for sure. But, you should be very wary if your tolerance (and maybe even fondness?) for a disaster isn't equal to mine. Resident Evil: Afterlife destroys the limits of absurdity like one of Alice's shotguns to the face. And yet, after the extra scene during the credits, I actually felt eager to see the next Resident Evil movie. Maybe I'm the one who's absurd.