First of all, wasn't this movie supposed to be about Alice and her clones? At least, that's what I thought. Then why do they all die except for the real Alice in the first 10 minutes?
OK, so it starts out not how I excepted. I wasn't sure if that was going to be a good or a bad thing. As it turns out, it was a bad thing.
I just didn't understand this movie. I'm not saying I didn't understand the story. That was simple and clear. I mean that I don't understand what this story has to do with the story of the rest of the franchise. Alice is supposed to be getting her revenge against Umbrella Corporation. They built a huge underground facility in Tokyo which Alice and her clones take out in the first 10 minutes. The leader of the facility of course, escapes with the real Alice on board. He however, gets the best of her injecting her with something that breaks down the T-virus in her system. She is no longer a super human with all these crazy powers, yet somehow, is able to survive a crazy plane crash?
Six months later, she is searching for Arcadia, an apparent harmony for survivors where she sent Claire, K-Mart and the rest of the survivors from the end of "Extinction". No surprise that it ends up being an Umbrella trap, however, we are not there yet.
Alice finds no one where Arcadia is supposed to be, only a crazed Claire with some sort of Umbrella device on her chest that makes her lose her memory. They fly into Los Angeles and find a few survivors, and Arcadia, that is not a city, but a boat. Of course, they can't get to it because they are surrounded by the undead in a prison. Slowly, Claire begins to get her memories back and among the survivors in LA, is her brother, Chris (Wentworth Miller).
After all the hijinx and some not so surprising deaths, they make it to the boat and find that Arcadia was an Umbrella trap, where they are experimenting on survivors. The Umbrella officer from the beginning, still alive and well, turns out is infected with the T-virus but has found a way to control it as long as she still eats human flesh. However, he wants to eat Alice so he can have full control over it. In a fairly underwhelming fight, they kill him, and free the prisoners, only to find dozens of Umbrella gunships on their way to the ship. And in charge is a very much alive and brainwashed Jill, former survivor, friend and S.T.A.R.S. officer in "Apocalypse".
Whoa, big surprise. I knew we were going to end up seeing a familiar face, I just didn't expect Jill. I thought for sure it would be Carlos, who died in "Extinction".
Anyway, the film was underwhelming and predictable, and seemed very set apart from the rest of the franchise because the story took a complete tangent, veering away from Alice's revenge against Umbrella Corporation.
The thing that most disappointed me was the action. Has someone created a new rule that every moment of action needs to be in slow motion now? Every time an action sequence began, it was in slow motion. The stake and the intensity was never heightened because nothing is surprising. What is surprising about a huge axe coming at you in slow motion? Come on now...
I did not see it in 3D, however, you could always tell what would have been in 3D. A big axe coming at you in slow motion. Or a piece of flying glass, in slow motion. Or a bullet, in slow motion.
Yes, very underwhelming indeed.
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