They keep making them, so somebody else must be enjoying these movies, though you wouldnt know it from the number of online critics that used words like plotless and brainless to describe this third sequel in the video game franchise. Resident Evil: Afterlife is an exploitation movie for the multiplex era, and let's be perfectly clear what elements it is exploiting. These movies cater to skinny white boys that like zombies, chicks with guns and stuff that blows up real good, so the real question to ask is: is this a better movie than Resident Evil: Extinction? The answer is a resounding yes because the director is Paul WS Anderson, returning to the directors chair for the first time since the original. More interesting visually, and with tauter action scenes, this is the pick of the sequels to date. Released in 3D, its also the first Resident Evil movie that doesnt begin or end with Jovovich getting gratuitously naked.
Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'
