Resident Evil: Retribution Reviews

Looks are absolutely everything in Retribution, which melds stunning 3-D computer-graphics and spectacular sets with a skimpy storyline and zero characterization.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

More high-calorie, low-sense, audiovisual CGI stimulation arrives in the form of this fifth and most roundly unsatisfying entry in the previously lithe and fun videogame franchise.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5

It has a Rolls with spinning hub caps - what more do you want?

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More of the same idiotic swill that Anderson feeds his numbskull fan base.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

It's a funny thing about Jovovich as Alice: she gives the character just enough personality, but not enough to break the somber apocalyptic mood.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

The Resident Evil films are not everyone's bag, although they seem to be evolving into their own brand of hyper-stylized cheese, made more extreme with each outing.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

"Retribution" has actually got some very decent action and 3D effects. The story is still razor-thin. But, by the end of it all, I was ready for the next sequel, the presumed finale.

Full Review | Original Score: C+

For those of us who know what we're in for with the series, the fifth installment is for better or worse, more of the same - albeit with the familiar levels of ridiculousness from its maddeningly inconsistent director/writer

Full Review | Original Score: 6.5/10

You can put as much gloss on top of the shaky foundations and wooden acting as possible but as soon becomes apparent - you can't varnish a turd.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

If you liked the other Resident Evil films, you'll like this, and the end suggests there'll be plenty more.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

The ending threatens yet more. Let's hope the fates intervene and put Paul and Milla in divorce court before then.

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More than ever, forgoes real attempts at character and story for lots of repetitive zombie skirmishes.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Resident Evil: Retribution is style-over-substance in every possible definition of the concept.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Even noisier, more incoherent, and more like watching someone play a shooter-style video game than its predecessors.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

While the last movie felt clean and more character-focused, this one seems a good deal lazier, both in the writing and directing departments.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

'Regurgitation' might be a more appropriate subtitle for this redundant fifth go-round...

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Containing almost no story, Resident Evil: Retribution shows the series' video-game origin more than ever.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Nobody goes to a Resident Evil movie expecting a classic but this fifth entry in the series is just plain cruddy.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Milla Jovovich is still a great action heroine, but the movie is just more of the same old stuff.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10

Uwe Boll gets most of the scorn, but has anyone done more to destroy hope of a decent movie being made from a video game than Paul W.S. Anderson?

Full Review | Original Score: 0.5/4