Movie Review

This one is all about Alice (Milla Jovovich)–hey, it’s a Resident Evil film. And about girls kicking ass–lots of it. If you missed any of the first four movies, don’t worry, Alice narrates a quick recap early on that will do a decent job of bringing you up to speed.

Everyone is in this one: even some characters that died in previous films are back, some of them multiple times, and several new characters from the Resident Evil video games.

As usual with the Resident Evil films, there is plenty of Girl Power front and center. Milla Jovovich fights, well, everyone and does it in her usual inimitable style. Representing Umbrella Corporation is the still-brainwashed Jill Valentine (Sienna Guillory), and the two together have some awesome action sequences. Also getting in their share of sparring are Ada Wong (Bingbing Li) and returnee Rain (Michelle Rodriguez). And all of them do some (or all) of their fighting in high heels (ouch!). There’s even a spot where Alice and Ada do a “Charlie’s Angels”-type pose before they run off to fight monsters.
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