This review contains spoilers.Resident Evil: Retribution is the sequel to Resident Evil: Afterlife. Resident Evil: Retribution is the fifth movie in the franchise and takes place after Resident Evil: Afterlife. Alice is captured and in a secret Umbrella Corporation laboratory. A team is assembled to rescue Alice in the laboratory.This movie does not fix the poor writing in the previous movies. The movie starts with the attack on the freighter that happens in reverse as an introductory credits scene. The movie then flashes ahead to a clone Alice dealing with a zombie attack in her home. The movie then finally sets up the main arc of the movie with the assembled team infiltrating the arctic base to rescue Alice.In previous movies, the Umbrella Corporation had many baffling events playing into their favor. In this movie, the Umbrella Corporation have a large laboratory in the arctic where they clone city amounts of people to simulate the viruses they have created's effects on a city. This is explained by the Umbrella Corporation selling the viruses to the highest bidder but this only makes sense if the world's countries have not collapsed. By this movie, the world's governments have collapsed and this lab is still in use. People are still being cloned to simulate bio-weapon attacks. This is a central component of the story and it makes no sense.Anybody hoping for a follow-up to characters in the previous movies will not see it here. The characters in the previous movies are ignored to focus on the Alice character. This is not a good choice as Alice was never a developed character. The most character development she got was in the first movie.The action in this movie suffers from the same disadvantages as in Resident Evil: Afterlife. The movie relies too much on 3D where the directing suffers for 2D viewers. The effects in this movie are competently done.This movie does use more characters from the video game series, but they do not resemble their video game counterparts. The movie continues to use their visual style but not their written stories.Resident Evil: Retribution is not recommended. This movie has too many problems to be even entertaining.

Resident Evil Retribution: Movie Review. I enjoyed the film to a certain point. The movie has some major issues but at the same time its a fun time watching zombies getting kicked by Alice. Resident Evil Retribution is a visually spectacular, stunning, stylish film with amazing and awesome 3D effects and character design. The cinematography is fantastic and the fight sequences choreography is excellent. The locations and set pieces are dazzling and innovative. The performance of Milla Jovovich is good and strong.The major issue with the film is that the story is very weak and convoluted and characters are very underdeveloped. The sequences are very fast paced and are confusing and complicated. Some scenes are dull and boring. The movie lacks proper and smooth structure and the characterizations are heavily underutilized due to the weak script and unconvincing screenplay.(Please Note: That This Review represent only my professional point of view and my personal honest opinion about the film, and does not represent others. Thank You).

The film series based on the survival horror video games has been mixed, the first film is great, the second is crap, the third is alright and so is the fourth, I expected the same reaction to this fifth instalment, directed by Paul W.S. Anderson (Mortal Kombat, AVP: Alien vs. Predator, Death Race, Pompeii). Basically it picks up straight after the events of the previous film, the T-Virus, created by the Umbrella Corporation, continues to ravage the Earth turning all infected into dangerous flesh-eating zombies. Alice (Milla Jovovich) continues to hunt those responsible for the outbreak, but following an explosion on a freighter she finds herself in Umbrella Corporation's underground facility, and her former ally Jill Valentine (Sienna Guillory) is being mind-controlled through a scarab device on her chest. Alice gets her chance to escape when a power failure occurs, she encounters Ada Wong (Bingbing Li), a top agent of Albert Wesker (Shawn Roberts), it is revealed that the Red Queen of the Hive has been reactivated and now controls Umbrella, and manufactured clones were created to simulate the outbreak of the T-Virus, to sell it at a high price around the world. To help them infiltrate the facility and escape, a strike team organised by Wesker arrives to join Alice and Ada, they are Leon S. Kennedy (Johann Urb), Barry Burton (Kevin Durand) and Luther West (Boris Kodjoe). They have two hours to escape before an explosive device is detonated, the only way to get out is through the simulation scale versions of major cities from around the world, including suburban Raccoon City, New York City and Moscow, Russia. Along the way Alice and the others encounter not only Umbrella troops and undead creatures and evolved monsters, they also encounter clones of deceased allies, including good and evil versions of Rain Ocampo (Michelle Rodriguez), soldier Carlos Olivera (Oded Fehr) and commando team leader James "One" Shade (Colin Salmon). These clones were created with only a proportion of previous memories to make their reactions to simulations as realistic as possible, they find Alice herself was also cloned, and in her clone life she was a housewife, living with husband Todd (Oded Fehr) and deaf daughter Becky (Orphan's Aryana Engineer). The team find Becky on the way and original Alice takes her with them, taking the place as her mother, and after all the encounters with the ruthless troops, dangerous undead creatures and releasing Jill from her controlled state, they make it out before the explosion. In the end Alice is met by Wesker in the barricaded White House, he restores her superhuman abilities, created by her mutation with the T-Virus, Wesker explains that they need her as the ultimate weapon to join human in the last stand against the hostility of the undead and the Red Queen threatening to wipe out the human race. Also starring Robin Kasyanov as Sergei, Ofilio Portillo as Tony and Megan Charpentier as The Red Queen (voiced by Ave Merson-O'Brian). Jovovich (also director Anderson's wife) with her vigour and visual appeal is still the big draw to sustain proceedings, all the supporting cast are fine as well, I agree the action just continues repeating in each film, the zombies remain relatively scary, the special effects are well done, but you are not highly bothered by the storyline, it is just cool for the fight scenes, guns and explosions all over the place, and blood spilling, apart from that it's another average science-fiction thriller. Okay!

Resident Evil: Retribution (2012): Dir: Paul W.S. Anderson / Cast: Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Sienna Guillory, Li Bingbing, Shawn Roberts: The fifth and unfortunately not the final showcase of this sh*t box franchise. Its subtitle regards the mending of losses although the ending pretty much sidelines any hope of that. It is just another excuse for mindless violence with people getting mauled by zombie or demonic type creatures. Milla Jovovich is a symbol of hope and is a real trooper to go through the routine again. She looks great in her skin tight black sex suit where she pulls out revolvers and large knives. She is still fighting that pesky Umbrella Corporation and the hit is out on Miss Milla who can scrap with the best of them. In fact, we have lots of feisty females in this gem. Michelle Rodriguez growls and spits bullets out her finger tips. Then she beats the tar out of two guys who just don't know when to quit. Sienna Guillory is under some sort of trance and is helping the Umbrella crew and the laughable Red Queen. She will engage in a nifty fist fight with Jovovich in the ice cold. Then we have Li Bingbing as a contact who helps Jovovich until she gets her ass caught. With the exception of Jovovich, these characters are airheads with no intention of doing anything remotely intelligent. The special effects are great with its reds and whites, and director Paul W.S. Anderson delivers an effective slow motion action opener, but his Three Musketeers is far more fun. So, the subtitle lies. There is no real retribution. Not even for the audience who must suffer through this and another bloody geek show. Score: 3 ½ / 10