RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE (2010) ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Paul W.S. Anderson
Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Kim Coates,
Shawn Roberts, Spencer Locke, Boris Kodjoe
Alice against the zombies, round four. This installment of the action movie/video game franchise starts out in Tokyo, with multiple versions of Alice (Milla Jovovich) blasting their way through the security system of the evil Umbrella Corporation. Tokyo ends up in ashes, but Alice escapes, and after a stopover in Alaska, she flies down the coast to Los Angeles, where a handful of survivors are holed up in an abandoned prison, trying to escape about a million undead. Some of this looks so much like "The Matrix", you wonder why Keanu Reeves doesn't turn up in his shades and long black coat. Firepower: extensive. Icky special effects: yes. Nudity: none. Zombie count: impossible to determine. Odds of another sequel: 100%. By the way, if you're doing some long-term investing, it appears from the evidence presented here that two commodities guaranteed to survive the apocalypse are high-tech weaponry and cosmetics. Consult your financial adviser today.
