Resident Evil: Retribution Reviews

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

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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

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

A mildly entertaining piece of eye-candy.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Resident Evil : Retribution is the first of the series that feels like a video game

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Giving their growing fanbase exactly what it expects, director W.S Anderson and Milla Jovovich deliver another thick slice of slick, glossy, futuristic action pulp.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

Paul W.S. Anderson's writing may not have blown minds and our characters may not be up for any awards, but Resident Evil: Retribution showcases tantalizing big budget action on a stylistically provocative level.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10

You either enjoy buff female and male characters in tight, form-fitting outfits shooting at zombies and each other, or you don't. It's really that simple.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

a work so completely removed from lucidity or linearity that if it bore the signature of Luis Bunuel or Seijun Sezuki instead of that of Paul W.S. "The Other Master" Anderson, it would be celebrated as a masterpiece of experimental cinema.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

At this point in the franchise, Anderson is content to alight the saga on a perpetual rewind loop, ever-ending, ever-rebooting, all subsidized by his nonpareil compositional sense.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

During the film's final sequence the director explains all while also suggesting that the franchise's nuttiest days are, remarkably, yet to come.

Full Review | Original Score: B-

Resident Evil movies don't tell stories so much as they provide variations on a theme, and that theme is: a pubescent boy's wet dream recast as an antiseptic dub-step nightmare

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Diagramming every revolution of Jovovich in wheeling and whirling action, however, Anderson is pitch-perfect when singing the body electric.

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We do not expect quality from Resident Evil any longer. We expect our brains to be expunged of common sense and pumped full of endorphins wearing fetish costumes.

Full Review | Original Score: 7.5/10

As far as a Paul W.S. Anderson 'Resident Evil' goes, ['Retribution' is] a mind-melting popcorn film gelled with insane amounts of action-packed eye-candy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

The movie is convoluted, of course, but it is also slick, savage and thrilling.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

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