Resident Evil: Retribution Reviews

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

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

"Resident Evil: Retribution" brings us to the fifth entry in a series that ran out of steam a long time ago.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

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

'Resident Evil: Retribution' does feel like a miniscule improvement over 'Afterlife,' but should still be considered overkill for a franchise that has already run its course.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10

Like an established pizza chain, director Anderson is in thrall to a guarantee: all relationships, of any significance, will be established in three seconds or less.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

Lacks inventiveness in any single fibre of its being - and worse, it's dull.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

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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"At last," Alice narrates, "we thought we had survived the horror." But no.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

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

The horror sequel equivalent of a "clip show" episode of Friends.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

The film's extravagant action scenes have not a whiff of consequence to them, and other than Alice, the foremost quality of all of the characters is their disposability.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10

A visually-captivating fantasy for teenage males with raging hormones, the demographic most apt to enjoy watching an invincible vixen in spandex waste wave after wave of mindless mutants.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

Resident Evil: Retribution can't even pass muster for the simple standards of this series.

Full Review | Original Score: C-

Thuddingly awful.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

It doesn't help to have Jovovich, Guillory, and Rodriguez in charge of the acting here. The three anti-Streeps slog through Anderson's god-awful dialogue with a peculiar drowsiness.

Full Review | Original Score: D+

It takes a while for the film to start being bad.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10

Most franchises which make it to 5 movies start to run out of ideas by then, but if Retribution has one glaring problem it's that it has far too many of them.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

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

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

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

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

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5