Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

swilliky The fourth installment of the Resident Evil franchise takes Alice (Milla Jovovich) across the Pacific to Japan and what is believed to be the last Umbrella corp. underground lair. We soon learn that Alice is not alone but taking on the underground lair with help of all of her clones toting samurai swords and ninja stars. She takes out this group but loses several of herself in the process. She is also injected with a weird serum that reduces all of her superpowers making her a normal human again.After stopping in Tokyo, Alice flies back to Alaska in search of her friends. She doesn't find a haven but is reunited with Claire (Ali Larter) who has no memory of what happened. They fly back down the West coast where they meet a group of survivors holed up in a prison. This group includes Bennett (Kim Coates), Luther (Boris Kodjoe), and the imprisoned Chris Redfield (Wentworth Miller). This group ekes out survival but when a new mutated form of zombie with a split open tongue burrow through the walls, the team has to escape. A giant monster with a hammer also starts knocking on the gate hurrying the evacuation.Check out more of this review and others at swilliky.com

AStormOfSwords13 Tonight's review is going to be short because honestly, there really isn't much to say about this movie other than the fact my mom found it on SyFy. I do remember the trailers and thinking to myself that it didn't look to be anything I'd want to watch.Now that I have watched it (without watching the first 3 films, mind you), I can't say it was good or bad. It was just there to be there. It is a run-of-the-mill horror sequel based on what I think are the video games. There isn't much in the way of a plot, but it doesn't try to be anything innovative. It's about what you'd expect, which is a stale horror movie with some jump scares containing over-the-top monsters. It also knows what it wants to be, which is fun, but it does fall short the majority of the movie. But it did keep me in my seat and it's not the worst way ever to waste time, which is the movie's best purpose.

Phil Hubbs With probably the most over the top, outlandish, in your face action sequence you've seen for sometime comes the fourth entry of the endless Resi Evil franchise. Now I REALLY am gonna try and not mention a certain Keanu Reeves sci-fi action film involving bullet time too much if possible but its gonna be hard.This outrageously insane kamikaze opening sequence where all the clone Alice's storm the Umbrella Tokyo Headquarters is actually a guilty pleasure I must admit. Its so ridiculously stupid using every cliché in the action film textbook and rips every possible slick visual imagery you can think of from various other action/sc-fi films...yet its great fun. Jovovich/Alice is sleek, sexy and deadly as the clones tear the faceless Umbrella stormtroopers apart with machine guns and katanas. Bloody squibs bursting from the seams, bullet holes, hits to the head by Wesker on his own men at point blank range, beheadings...oh my!!Only one question begs to be answered, where did all those Alice clones get all those identical figure hugging catsuits??So the drudgery continues as Alice goes from one area to the next battling the undead and watching more and more of hers allies go down one by one. This time she lands her plane on a huge prison in LA, not too sure why she would quite clearly get herself stuck on this prison, let alone almost killing herself and Claire whilst trying to land on the roof. But she does because there are survivors there...but surely anyone would just fly by and find a more secure place? this prison is surrounded by millions of zombies! pfft your funeral.The ensemble cast is actually pretty cool in this, on the same page as the first film although not many famous names. Alongside Alice in this prison we have the token black guy who runs around in a vest so we can see his big muscles, at least he's well spoken. Standard fare sexy brunette who is British (at least she isn't a blonde), the excellent Kim Coates as a slimy film producer (nice touch Mr Anderson), a funny little oriental fellow, standard fare tough guy backup number two called Angel and Wentworth Miller who again is behind bars.To be totally frank this fourth film is completely run of the mill, bog standard stuff in terms of plot. Its simply another setup for Alice to pile drive into with a new team of zombie fodder at her side. The thing is like the first film its still quite an enjoyable ride, its totally predictable, totally clichéd and pretty much rehashes the same stuff all over again but in a different location. But thanks to a quirky cast the film is pretty cool I think.  There are still plot questions that hit me, especially as this is now the fourth film. Anyone notice that the Umbrella Company has so many underground bases? also they are VAST underground bases! How and when did they build them?? (under Tokyo??!!), how are Umbrella so rich n powerful? Where on earth do all the Umbrella henchmen come from? how come THEY are always safe? where do they get all their guns and ammo? how come they are so useless and why would they wanna do their evil job? why does Umbrella carry on playing with the dead when the human race is almost extinct?! and finally not being a game player...who was that huge axe wielding guy? where the heck did he come from?I must also ask why the cities in this franchise are in ruins? the undead are eating everyone not blowing up buildings, so why are they all stripped down to their structures and burnt out? The other main question was why some zombies can now run and have tentacles coming out of their mouths just like the vamps in 'Blade II'. When did this evolution occur?I can't delve deeper for obvious reasons, the film is what it is and we all know this, its Resi Evil, don't question that. The film does deliver in my opinion, it gives you what you expect with some decent visuals and good close quarter action. The finale against Wesker is just as insanely Matrix-like as the opening sequence and just as mind bogglingly daft, maybe more so. The rock soundtrack in the background means its officially cool, its official.You do feel the tension in these films when the heat is on and its time to escape from somewhere. The fact Alice isn't a superhero this time boosts the film giving a sense of uncertainty for once, even though you know she still won't die, still helps.6/10

David Arnold In this 4th installment, Alice continues her fight against the Umbrella Corporation. She now finds herself in Alaska in hope of finding some kind of humanity left from the disaster of the T-Virus. After finding Claire Redfield (a survivor she was with in Nevada), they make their way to L.A. where they find another small band of survivors who've taken refuge in a maximum security prison. Working together, they try to find refuge in Arcadia. However, all is not as it seems regarding Arcadia, and with the zombies continuing to surround the prison, it soon becomes a race against time to get to safety.OK, the first three movies were decent....thin on story, granted (apart from really the 1st one), but they had good action & suspense. Unfortunately Resident Evil: Afterlife is messy. It starts out in Japan, where we see the start of the zombie attacks, then 4 years later where Alice and her "friends" try to break into the Umbrella Corporation there, then 6 months later she's hundreds of miles away in Alaska, so it's pretty confusing to follow to start with.The story is, well, to say it's thin would be an understatement. Action is the main reliant, which isn't too bad, however this is basically a Matrix movie with a Resident Evil title. The slow motion action (which were obviously done for the 3D) is pretty cool in a good few scenes, but there's just a bit too many. It's a bit like a John Woo film on crack.Also, this film copies so many other movies as well....Wesker dodging bullets (Neo from The Matrix); bullet time (Max Payne); Axeman character (Pyramid Head from Silent Hill); zombies mouths stretching open (vampires in Blade 2). So really nothing is that original.The acting by Wentworth Miller (who played Chris Redfield) and Shawn Roberts (who played Albert Wesker) was just awful as well, so add that to other mediocre scenes and you have a very lackluster installment to the series. Some very cool action scenes but that's about it for this one really.