Every Resident Evil Movie Ranked From Worst To Best
2. Resident Evil: Extinction
Resident Evil: Extinction may not feel much like a Resident Evil movie, but after Apocalypse tried and failed to please fans in such half-assed fashion, shifting gears to a sun-kissed post-apocalyptic road movie made for a welcome change.
Easily one of the most skillfully directed Resident Evil movies - by the steady hand of Highlander filmmaker Russell Mulcahy - Extinction is the Mad Max zombie flick that The Final Chapter wishes it was.
With a more coherent story than the wackier sequels that followed, a sharp aesthetic and setting, and the welcome addition of Claire Redfield to the fray, Extinction manages to be a mostly winning mix of new and familiar.
It's proof that deviating from the source material doesn't need to be a bad thing, as long as you replace it with something actually worthwhile and basically entertaining.
The promise of its fantastic sequel-bait ending was sadly scuppered by how dismissively Afterlife followed it up, but for a little while there the series actually got exciting again.