Resident Evil: Extinction is set in the Nevada desert and filled with intense special effects and more zombie terror! Las Vegas means fun in the sun. Well, at least the sun is still there. Except for a few rusting landmarks, it looks pretty much like the rest of the desert - or the whole country, for that matter. The crowds are now flesh-eating zombies: the mass undead, the oozing, terrifying sludge of what remains. Here, the newly upgraded Alice, along with her crew will make a final stand against evil - with one goal: to turn the undead dead again.
To my big surprise the third instalment in the RESIDENT EVIL series wasn't anything like I had expected, it was way better, and the reasons for that may be many. Like for instance that it took place in the open desert instead of Raccoon City -- that it was horror during day, meaning that most of the action took place in the light instead of the dark which is such a common thing when it comes to horror. But the biggest reason to why I found this movie very enjoyable is probably because I had no real expectations to begin with, I just wanted to check it out and cross it of my list, and that was about it.
When the first RESIDENT EVIL movie came out I got really disappointed. Sure, it looked nice and so on and so forth but to me it didn't really capture the feeling of the games that I had been playing. With SILENT HILL I felt that it was pretty much right on the spot but RESIDENT EVIL just didn't do it, so when the second film came out I had completely lost interest. I did see it though but didn't think much of it. With that in hand I sat down to watch EXTINCTION, and even though I can't say it was a great film, I definitely felt it was the best entry in the RESIDENT EVIL saga so far and I was interested in what was going on from start to finish.
 
In this third film the world is pretty much f**ked as the infection has spread all over the globe and things just keep getting worse. There are a number of survivors left here and there and we get to follow a bunch of them (with the beautiful Ali Larter as their leader) as they are trying to make it out there in a world full of flesh-eating zombies. Alice (Jovovich) hooks up with the group and convinces them to head to Alaska where they will be safe from contamination. Problem though is that they must head for Las Vegas first to find fuel, and well you guessed it, things takes a turn for the worse.
Visually, EXTINCTION is truly interesting and has a lot to offer those who bow to beautiful imagery. The action scenes are pretty awesome at times, there's especially this one scene when like a millions of birds, that have been eating infected human flesh, attack a caravan of humans and you just can't help but to smile when the shit goes down.... it looks pretty darn amazing. There are of course more action scenes that are really good and we get to see heads roll and blood splatter all over the place which is of course always enjoyable.
Not fantastic in any way but much better than expected and that was way good enough for yours truly. It's a film with good pacing and loads of great action sequences taking place in very cool scenery. You should definitely give it a shot.
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ALTERNATIVE TITLE: Resident Evil 3, Resident Evil: Afterlife
MOVIE YEAR: 2007
DIRECTOR: Russell Mulcahy
WRITING CREDITS: Paul W.S. Anderson
GENRE: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
CAST: Milla Jovovich, Oded Fehr, Ali Larter
COUNTRY: France, Australia, Germany, UK, USA
RUNTIME: 95 min
RATING: 7/10
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