Resident Evil Retribution review

Hate it or love it, the Resident evil franchise has created success in both the box office and in making new fans to the RE world.
RE retribution is the 5th film in the series the started more than 10 years ago, here the film picks up from where the last film ended, where we find Alice " played by the one and only Milla Jovovic " on board the Arcadia fighting off the Umbrella army, she gets captured and send to their underwater facility for interrogation, down there she finds a hidden friend within the Umbrella cooperation who helps her escape, and throughout the movie we follow ALice as she tries to escape the facility with the aid of some of her older fiends and allies. of course she faces all kind of threat that we all know and familiar with from the RE world, including Zombies, monsters and Umbrella soldiers.

the plot is quite simple and basic and is very similar to most of the previous RE films, which does not add anything special or might be shallow for the people who take these films seriously. the action on the other hand offers a lot more, there are several well executed action scenes with fresh ideas, impressive visuals, the jaw dropping type of visuals. very stylish and professional stuff.

personally, my favorite RE movie is split between Afterlife and Apocalypse, both were very interesting, adding more fresh and interesting characters " Claire, Jill " and the action was solid as usual.
so why did Retribution fall in ranking ? well, i found it weak in several areas, for example, here we were introduced to new characters, but those characters were rushed into the plot without any background, which made us care less about them and about their survival, not to mention they added a bigger number of new faces than usual.it was a bit of a mess.

another problem, is that the plot started to shift further and further into fantasy and away from reality. now i understand that these films are SCi Fi, meaning they were not intended to be realistic, however, i found the previous 4 films believable, you can relate to them some how, but this one was too Sci fi for me, if you can get my meaning.
things like multiple clones, Zombie soldiers, futuristic models based on huge cities, Umbrella controlling simulations to detail is just way over fetched. some scenes seemed odd somehow, weird and at times even ridiculous.

I also hated the fact that they didn't tell us what ever happened to Clair and Chris from the previous Afterlife movie !

having said that, i still had a kick out of watching this movie, as mentioned, action was solid not to forget its always a joy to watch Milla as Alice, she owned that role.

reading some reviews of the film on websites like IMDB and so forth , it seems a lot of people were taking these films very seriously and are expecting a solid drama with a complicated twisted plot, which is not the case with these films, they are mainly brainless action films with style.
other people are still moaning that Anderson " the director " took the RE series into a different direction from the Video games, which i don't understand, the guy bought the right to making the film, he got it and probably with a high price and now he is free to do what ever he wants with it, his visions and his style, so people need to grow up and just accept that, its been 10 years already and they are still moaning about it.
i guess now they can rest a bit with the two animated RE movies that came out, it might give some of the obsessed some closure. i only watched Degeneration and it was good enough, but to me not as a good as the live films.

the picture on this Blu ray is awesome, its clean and smooth like looking through a glass not a TV screen provided that you have the High definition connections and all that, same has to be said about the audio and sound, speaking of audio i forgot to mention that Retribution, despite its short comings it had a fantastic soundtrack, probably the best in the series.
the Blu Ray also had a bunch of special features which i couldn't and really didn't care to go through them all which are listed above in the product details if you really care about that stuff, as for me, i only go for the movies usually and don't care much about the features.

so to summarize, not the best in the series, but still a solid addition to the successful RE movie series with Mill Jovovic doing her best, impressive visuals and action scenes. worthy to add to your collection if you're a fan of the series or of good action.

Kill'em all review

I was having high hopes for Kill'em all, but was left disappointed at the lack of creativity and enjoyment of this movie. it had what seemed to be an interesting plot, the idea behind it sounded cool and intriguing, but the delivery of that idea was below what is expected. the plot involves a group of highly professional assassins who got kidnapped and locked into a bunker together by a madman who forces them to play his game and fight each other to escape, for no clear reason, probably for his own sick entertainment. the fight scenes in the film were impressive to some extent, some well choreographed fight scenes that involve mainly martial arts, but they add nothing new to the hundreds of action films out there.

the lead actress had some impressive moves and a cool sexy outfit, very delicious to look at.

generally, the acting was just awful, very rigid and lame, those people seem like professional athletes, but just don't cut it as actors which really harmed this movie big time.

the script and dialog was just as awful if not the worst i've ever seen in a movie, just awful writing, that nothing smart comes out of those actors, lame and boring dialog that i just screamed please shut up once a conversation starts !

Add to that a lame villain that looks like an Asian version of Blofeld of the Bond films, minus the cat. a bold villain in a grey suit with some good fighting skills actually, he also have an army of psychopaths and ninjas that ultimately fight our heroes. " one might ask why don't he just use his ninjas to fight each other for entertainment ? "

the effects were also below average when explosions were involved, something that can be made with a simple editing program on your laptop.

so generally, a boring film for the most part, low grade B film with only some good fight scenes as its positive, otherwise,atrocious acting and an avoidable B film that adds nothing new or special out of all the hundreds of B action films out there