This review contains spoilers.Resident Evil: Afterlife is the sequel to 2007's Resident Evil: Extinction. Resident Evil: Afterlife is the fourth installment of the Resident Evil franchise and is a follow-up to Resident Evil: Extinction. Alice discovers the laboratory containing clones and she is now in-control of her new powers. Alice begins with an attack on Albert Wesker's Umbrella Corporation headquarters.Like the past two movies, Resident Evil: Extinction and Resident Evil: Apocalypse, the story makes excuses to have its action sequences. The movie also backpedals on its own continuity by removing its own plot developments. Resident Evil: Afterlife removes all of the Alice clones and her superpowers after an enthralling opening sequence. The clone and superpower arc is now irrelevant after the opening sequence.This is not the only story mishap and the story tries to re-use elements from previous movies. Alice finds a group of survivors in a tower. She leads these survivors into a place that is promising sanctuary called Arcadia. This is obviously a lie as everything is owned by The Umbrella Corporation somehow. Even after a zombie apocalypse and bio-weapons roam the world, the Umbrella Corporation is able to still construct new buildings and ships. They are also able to maintain a loyal workforce that does not care about the atrocities they commit.Even the ending sequence of arriving at Arcadia and dealing with Albert Wesker is laughable. The movie is hoping that the would care but they do not. It is hard to care about the story when the movie opens by removing events from the previous movies.Besides the story, the rest of the movie is solid. The action sequences are still fun to watch. Although Alice does not have much character it is still fun to see the stunts that she does. The action scenes are competently shot and edited. The strangeness of some of the scenes however stem from the three dimensional requirement. It felt that because the movie had 3D in mind, some scenes were shot differently and I could tell immediately that these scenes felt different.Fans of the video game may not enjoy this movie if they are expecting a movie based on the video game series. Like Resident Evil: Extinction, this movie uses the same visual style of the monsters and nothing else.Overall, Resident Evil: Afterlife can be a fun action movie to watch. It does not need prior knowledge of the series because of the poor writing.

This was about as mediocre as I thought it would be. It's nothing to write home about. Well, I guess it is something to write a review about. Anyway, this chapter features the characters finding a new place free from zombies. There's little plot besides that. That's probably the film's biggest fault. It doesn't have much of a story other than them going to a place where people are supposedly safe. I guess the action scenes aren't bad. The main problem with this is the slow motion. I think it's probably the fault of the 3D people, but there are many times where it just isn't done well.I also kind of blame the 3D for having bad CGI. This is why Roger Ebert was opposed to this sort of thing! I having seen the last two movies but am not a fan of either these movies or the actual video games to really get invested to want to see them all. Besides, there's too many to list by now. They're supposedly over, I believe. I guess if you just want mindless zombie stuff, this is the movie for you. I know a tad bit about the games and from what I know, this is in fact pretty faithful. Other entries are at least slightly better. **

Having really enjoyed (at least as far as this series goes) the third entry in the 'Resident Evil' set of films, I was quite disappointed to see them take a step backwards in this one. 'Resident Evil: Afterlife' is my least favourite entry in the series to date. Interesting, my two least favourites, the original and this one, were both directed by series writer/producer Paul W.S. Anderson. The second and third entries, which he lent out to other directors, were far superior in my opinion. This is a disappointing fact, because I have two films to go in the series and he has directed both of them.The reasons I didn't enjoy this one as much were as follows. Firstly, this one is much slower than the other films in the series. At almost the halfway point in the run time the story is still being set up and characters are simply standing around introducing them self and discussing what to do. There are little hints of action here and there in the first half, but they are hardly anything worth mentioning. Secondly, it felt like this focused a lot more on style than actual substance. The opening scene is a prime example. Very very little actually happens in it, yet the whole thing is filmed in slow motion and with stylish camera angles to make us think this is a great scene. Also, it would have to be said that this series is starting to feel a little stale after four entries. You find yourself asking what exactly am I getting in this edition that I haven't already seen or experienced. I would love to see Anderson think a little outside the box for the next two entries. Try something different to mix it up a bit. Otherwise I feel this series really can't justify six entries.

First of all, I am a fan of the first 3 movies but this one is just bad. I don't want to wast to much time on this review, so I'm just going to put all the arguments why you shouldn't watch this movie in order.1. The special effects are worse then ever.2. The acting is surely not as good as in the previous movies. 3. The storyline is becoming crap.4. The last action scene is like a cheap rip-off of The Matrix. 5. Icould go on but I already wrote too much on this peace of garbage.My advice: don't waste your time!