Movie Review

Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)

EW's GRADE
C-

Details Release Date: Sep 21, 2007; Rated: R; Length: 100 Minutes; Genres: Action/Adventure, Horror; With: Milla Jovovich

RESIDENT EVIL: EXTINCTION
RESIDENT EVIL: EXTINCTION

The title gives one hope: Could this be curtains for the stubbornly undead franchise? Unfortunately, Resident Evil: Extinction plays like a flabby middle chapter, full of nerdy details (we practically get an org chart of the Umbrella Corporation, author of a globe-spanning zombie plague) but fraudulently short on the ruined Vegas-scape that ads have been promising. Our hero Alice (Milla Jovovich, bioengineered for joyless, over-choreographed carnage) spends all of 10 minutes there — and she doesn't even visit a zombie casino! C-

Originally posted Sep 26, 2007 Published in issue #957 Oct 05, 2007 Order article reprints
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