Every Resident Evil Movie Ranked From Worst To Best
5. Resident Evil: Afterlife
The series' fourth film, Afterlife, is where it irreversibly transformed from modest action-horror into outright maximalist nonsense, in 3D no less.
Though the previous effort, Extinction, ended by promising that Afterlife would revolve around an army of Alice clones taking on Umbrella, that's discarded with infuriating efficiency in the opening sequence, where the clones are oh-so-conveniently killed off. Oh, and Alice loses her powers. Boo.
It's not all bad, though: the slow-motion opening is neat, Tomandandy's moody score slaps, and the soaking wet action sequence where Alice and Claire Redfield (Ali Larter) take on the giant executioner is one of the series' best.
Wentworth Miller is also good fun as Chris Redfield, while Shawn Roberts' turn as Albert Wesker walks a fine line between wink-wink camp and genuine awfulness.
Afterlife's considerably bigger budget than its predecessors certainly shows throughout, but the high-octane action reaches a level of ostentatious self-parody here that makes it absolutely impossible to take seriously.