Resident Evil: Afterlife: Critic Reviews

Afterlife is slow-moving but relentless, and judging from a post-credits teaser that promises at yet another sequel, it has an unquenchable appetite for your brain cells.

This witless installment features the usual ultra-slow-motion mayhem and helpful freeze-frames to allow us to admire the extra dimension. Fans will not be happy, however, to learn that Ms. Jovovich is more decently clothed this time around.

The films always look good and have well-staged action, but they don't have one iota of originality or imagination -- to the extent of virtually recreating key scenes from The Matrix, Die Hard and The Descent.

True to series form, plot is nearly indiscernible, but this fourth installment in the sci-fi/horror/action franchise created by writer-director Paul W.S. Anderson is the sleekest so far, thanks to 3D and star Milla Jovovich's body-hugging catsuit.

Resident Evil: Afterlife lacks the humanity -- interesting characters, funny one-liners -- that made its predecessors enjoyable B-movies.

Jovovich remains the lone light in the increasingly lackluster videogame-based zombie franchise, which barrels through its fourth installment with a threatened fifth on the way.

It's a humorless movie of morphing zombies (they take on beastly attributes), phoned-in performances and trite dialogue.

Like pretty much all of Anderson's films, this one is half-baked. The half that's baked isn't too bad, though.

State-of-the-art 3D effects add a welcome dose of visual freshness to the fourth installment of this video game-based franchise.

The action is easier to read than in most films of the genre, and therefore more enjoyable. Anderson makes particular use of sets and locations to wring out more bang for the stereoscopic buck.

The law of diminishing returns rears its ugly, ugly head with Resident Evil: Afterlife, the fourth movie in a series that is going absolutely nowhere.

"Resident Evil: Afterlife" is watchable at times. Then, the story breaks down and you lose patience. There are plenty of action scenes, so if that's what you seek. Go for it. Paul Chambers, CNN.

Tons of action and butt-kicking, but the story is on autopilot, performances are stilted, and the film's budget can't keep up with director Anderson's daunting scope and scale.

Wasn't all this going someplace at one time? The mind boggles at all of the incredible things these two women could be doing in wet, dirty clothes.

The DVD needs to come with a drinking game feature, do you hear me Sony?

A movie that makes the "Dawn" remake look brilliant...

full review at Movies for the Masses

Cheap hits of bang-bang adrenaline occasionally rise up but any rush is quickly tempered by the processed banality lulling you into a coma of fast-food filmmaking.

Resident Evil: Afterlife ... is boring, but you probably already knew that. The primary source of inspiration for the screenplay seems to be Alien 3 -- the very worst of the Alien films -- in both its content and incomprehensibility.

I thought it was great fun. Paul W.S. Anderson -- it's his greatest hit adapting video games to movies.