Resident Evil: Afterlife
More derivative Resident Evil films. Yes Paul, I have seen The Matrix, Children of Men, and The Island. It’s called afterlife because the cast comes back even though they died.
Alice’s clones attack Japan’s Umbrella headquarters, right under Shibuya Square, right there on 109’s basement. They all die, but Wesker escapes. They both have superpowers, it’s like a Marvel fight scene, a silly action opening, as low stakes as it gets.
Meanwhile, another Alice is turned into a human, but I think she is the OG woman. She loses her superpowers but still survives a Germanwings-style plane crash into a mountain. She apparently steals a Russian plane and flies all the way to Alaska.
Apparently Arcardia was a lie, there was no oasis in the snow. She does find an amnesic Claire Redfield. They get back to “civilisation”, in this case LA, where they find another pocket of survivors on top of a building. Yes Paul, I have seen Dawn of the Dead.
That place is actually a prison, and besides some unimportant characters that will die gruesome deaths, there’s Chris Redfield, in a jail cell. He will need to Prison Break his way out. Zombies break in, they start dying one by one, minus the protagonists.
They found out Arcadia is actually a big oil tanker, sailing around the world rescuing people. After our protagonists get there, they find out that is yet another fully functioning Umbrella research facility, with thousands of people in reserves as future Guinea pigs.
They let them out after another drawn out action scene with Agent Wesker. It’s completely pointless, because he escapes, blows up, and Umbrella sends out yet another massive squadron of troop transports with another resurrected cast member: it’s Jill Valentine, or a badly CGI headshot pasted on top of another body.
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