Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
Average Rating: 4.3/10
Reviews Counted: 95
Fresh: 21 | Rotten: 74
Resident Evil: Extinction is more of the same; its few impressive action sequences unable to compensate for the pedestrian plot.
Average Rating: 3.7/10
Critic Reviews: 14
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 12
Resident Evil: Extinction is more of the same; its few impressive action sequences unable to compensate for the pedestrian plot.
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Director Russell Mulcahy takes over for the third chapter in the Resident Evil film franchise, which finds genetically altered Alice (Milla Jovovich) joining forces with Carlos (Oded Fehr) and L.J. (Mike Epps) to take down the Umbrella Corporation once and for all. Upon emerging from her hideout in the Nevada desert, Alice is quickly joined by old friends Carlos and L.J., as well as survivors Claire (Ali Larter), K-Mart (Spencer Locke), and Nurse Betty (Ashanti). Now instilled with super-human
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Cast
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Milla Jovovich
Alice -
Oded Fehr
Carlos Olivera -
Ali Larter
Claire Redfield -
Iain Glen
Dr. Isaacs -
Ashanti
Betty -
Chris Egan
Mikey -
Spencer Locke
K-Mart -
Matthew Marsden
Slater -
Linden Ashby
Chase -
Jason O'Mara
Albert Wesker -
Mike Epps
L.J. -
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Joe Hursley
Otto -
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John Eric Bentley
Umbrella Tech -
James Tumminia
Lab Tech -
Kirk B.R. Woller
Scientist -
Rick Cramer
Corridor Guard, Ice Hoc... -
Madeline Carroll
White Queen -
Peter O'Meara
British Envoy -
Ramon Franco
Runty -
Shane Woodson
Piggy -
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Geoff Meed
Pock Mark -
Rusty Joiner
Eddie -
Brian Steele
Rancid, Tyrant -
Connor McCoy
Small Boy -
Gary A. Hecker
Tyrant Vocal -
Carolina Jimenez
Mirror Woman
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All Critics (95) | Top Critics (14) | Fresh (22) | Rotten (80) | DVD (16)
An occasional wide shot, of half-buried Las Vegas, say, hints at the postapocalyptic doom these movies have never quite achieved.
Top CriticThe scariest visage is that of Alice, whose flawless, airbrushed complexion is either a throwback to Mulcahy's New Romantic pop promos or something dictated by Jovovich's L'Oréal contract.
Resident Evil: Extinction plays like a flabby middle chapter, full of nerdy details but fraudulently short on the ruined Vegas-scape that ads have been promising.
If ever a movie was made for a quick in-and-out engagement at the multiplex, this is it.
Resident Evil: Extinction is no more interesting than watching someone else play with his Xbox.
The action is not so much bloody as bloody monotonous.
As far as this franchise goes, it looks like it's game over as the only thing extinct is the creativity.
Zombie sequel is just as grisly as the first two.
There doesn't seem to be much other point to Extinction, with its disposable story and its ever-more-conspicuous lack of any original ideas.
Director Russell Mulcahy is revered by genre fans for his work on the original Highlander, but he won't gain many followers outside Fangoria circles with this over-the-top splatter fest.
The latest installment in writer/producer Paul W.S. Anderson's Resident Evil series may have opened atop the box office, but hardcore gamers know where the real action is.
Groovy bit of multiplex pandemonium
Rips from as many movies as possible, and fails to even do that right.
I'm still unimpressed with this franchise, but they are laughing all the way to the bank. Gotta respect that.
The franchise is becoming almost as mindless as the zombies it portrays, lumbeirng on with only repetitive instinct, while all true vitality has long since passed away.
najve%u0107i adut filma je, kao i uvijek, Milla Jovovich
Extinction's helmer, Russell Mulcahy, never met a moving picture he couldn't Cuisinart into incoherence.
Falha até mesmo na tarefa de levar o público a se importar com seus personagens; não há uma única baixa entre os mocinhos que realmente faça o espectador sentir um nó na garganta ou simplesmente pensar "Que pena. Era uma boa pessoa.".
The action at times is pretty effective, from an attack by an infected flock of crows, to some brutal fighting in a sand-engulfed Las Vegas.
Fun, forgettable stuff -- but also a (slightly) better film than the reviews would have you believe.
Far from extinct, this flick proves there's still life in the old zombies yet.
It's visually appealing, has some great ideas, and broadly touches on some potentially interesting characters, but it just cashes all of it in in exchange for more fluff and mediocre horror mayhem...
Milla Jovovich does a female chauvinist dressed-to-kill biker babe, while dodging cannibalistic crows. Rarely has mass murder been so dull. Pass the smelling salts.
Audience Reviews for Resident Evil: Extinction
Super Reviewer
The image of 'Alice' being more of a elemental/supernatural type superhero is enforced more in this new film after we learned how badass she was in number two. A motley band of survivors once again are in deep doo doo being attacked by hundreds of ravenous crows (crows in the Mojave desert?), until 'Alice' pops up and saves the day by scorching all the crows to a firey death with the mind powers she learnt from 'Professor X'.
The plot is just like all the other films, a small group of survivors in a different setting, getting taken down one by one, until only 'Alice' and maybe two others remain for the next sequel (where those two normally get killed off early on). I quite liked the idea of 'Alice' roaming the Southwestern US outback looking for supplies and survivors but stumbling across crazy killers that like to watch people get eaten by zombie dogs. You could totally see that happening in the US with all those religious nut jobs over there, real 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' type folk in the sticks over there.
On the subject of zombie dogs, why are they always rottweilers? what has happened to every other type of dog? is there some kind of special sale on zombie rottweilers?? cos they are everywhere!.
Actually this film felt somewhat muted and not as action packed if you can believe that. Looking back over all of the films this one definitely has a slightly slower pace, less interesting characters and less action...apart from the usual mass of gunshots to zombie heads. On the other hand the visuals seem more realistic (deserts always seem to look good on film) and the zombies look good, grittier. The sequence where the main bad scientist guy tries to domesticate a captured zombie harks back to the classic 'Return of the Living Dead' zombie franchise (third film), nice touch.
Despite a more straight tone as it were, this film does suffer from not being quite the ballistic overdrive of action the rest are. It almost doesn't quite fit within the franchise really but I liked the fresh location. The whole film does feel a little bit of an anti climax though, the finale with the mutated creature sums that up pretty well, but as usual the setup for the next sequel intrigues.
Super Reviewer
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- Alice: Sorry about this... Stevie...
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- Alice: [laughs] No, You're just... another asshole, and we're both gonna die down here.
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- Chase: Climb the Eiffel Tower with a high-powered rifle. A few years ago, that would've caused a stir. Well, let the good times roll!
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- Alice: You won't have to wait that long, boys. Because I'm coming for you. And I'm gonna be bringing a few of my friends.
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- Alice: The Umbrella Corporation thought they'd contained the infection. Well, they were wrong. Raccoon City was just the beginning. Within weeks, the T-virus had consumed the United States. Within months, the world. The virus didn't just wipe out human life. Lakes and rivers dried up, forests became deserts and whole continents were reduced to nothing more than barren wastelands. Slowly but surely, the Earth began to wither and die. What few survivors there were learned to keep on the move. We avoided major cities. If we stopped anyplace too long, they would be drawn to us. Only a few at first, but then more and more. A never-ending army of undead. For those of us left, staying on the road seemed the only way to stay alive.
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