Resident Evil: Retribution

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Resident Evil: Retribution

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2012

1h 36m

Horror

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Mystery & Thriller

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As Umbrella Corp.'s deadly T-virus continues to turn the world's population into legions of flesh-eating zombies, Alice, the human race's last hope, awakes deep within Umbrella's secret operations facility. The further she delves into the complex, the more of her mysterious past is unveiled. Her global hunt for those responsible for the outbreak leads to a mind-blowing revelation; Aided by friends old and new, Alice fights to escape from a world on the edge of oblivion.

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Critics Consensus

Resident Evil: Retribution offers everything one might reasonably expect from the fifth installment in a heavily action-dependent franchise -- which means very little beyond stylishly hollow CGI-enhanced set pieces.

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Marc Savlov

Austin Chronicle

Sep 21, 2012

2/5

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

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Rafer Guzman

Newsday

Sep 17, 2012

1/4

The script is incoherent and the acting is terrible -- avatars would have been an improvement.

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Joe Neumaier

New York Daily News

Sep 17, 2012

1/5

Thuddingly awful.

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

Sep 27, 2022

1/4

The degree to which this fast-food movie and its predecessors are completely forgettable is counteracted by Anderson’s usual clip-show recaps at the beginning of each new sequel.

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Mike Massie

Gone With The Twins

Dec 2, 2020

1/10

To make up for the utter lake of sensibility, the film incorporates lots of spontaneous action, sudden crashes or explosions or gunfire, and hyperactive zombies.

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David Hogan

hoganreviews.co.uk

Oct 31, 2019

2/5

I was starting to sort of like these films, in a silly way, but this was so empty, filled with so many long scenes of characters just shooting machine guns at each other....

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Paul S

@PManRager 2 days ago

While it is slightly better than Afterlife, I wouldn't call this a great movie. What saved it for me was the awesome action sequences and epic adaptations of Leon Kennedy and Ada Wong, but other than that, there isn't much to appreciate about this movie. Seeing the return of characters from the previous films was a nice touch, but I feel they were wasted in this movie. All in all, not the worst movie ever, but definitely a bad one. Action, horror, and sci-fi fans, and some Resident Evil fans, might find entertainment in this, but not much else.

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Benjamin W

@Code70 Oct 17, 2026

As far as the positives go for Paul W.S. Anderson’s Resident Evil: Retribution, I think the action is an improvement on honestly every other entry in the series, and it felt more RE than the earlier installments, as far as I could tell, with there being legitimate T-virus monsters and stuff of the like. But overall, this is about as good as you would expect a late-entry Paul W.S. Anderson RE entry to be. Which is to say it has a completely incoherent plot, does nothing we haven’t seen in earlier entries, retcons events of the previous entry, looks tacky visually with some very poor cgi (and that’s no longer an excuse, with their $65 million budget and it being 2012), hammy acting, and just some really ridiculous and nonsensical mythology that feels all bogged down and out of wack at this point. At this point, there’s just not much left with this series. Most of the enjoyment and reasonable level of quality is gone, and we’re just left with bad cgi and some muddled mythology.

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Jonathan O

@RT41230270 Oct 4, 2026

The opening scene felt like a rip off from the Snyder's cut Dawn of the Dead and rushing off from what we left off in afterlife and the cgi is still goofy and terrible and not a alice fan because she's not from the game and alice got really bad clothing choices.

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Joanne G

@RT09876043 Sep 23, 2026

Ame ver como actuaba la Reyna roja tratando de elimar al proyecto Alice me encantó ❤️🥰❤️🥰❤️

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Robert P

@Superbad Sep 17, 2026

Resident Evil = a *2.5* star Movie!

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Matthew M

@matthew994411 Sep 15, 2026

Great movie a lot of action.

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Synopsis

As Umbrella Corp.'s deadly T-virus continues to turn the world's population into legions of flesh-eating zombies, Alice, the human race's last hope, awakes deep within Umbrella's secret operations facility. The further she delves into the complex, the more of her mysterious past is unveiled. Her global hunt for those responsible for the outbreak leads to a mind-blowing revelation; Aided by friends old and new, Alice fights to escape from a world on the edge of oblivion.

Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Producer: Jeremy Bolt, Paul W.S. Anderson, Robert Kulzer, Don Carmody, Samuel Hadida
Screenwriter: Paul W.S. Anderson
Distributor: Sony Pictures Entertainment
Production Co: Davis Films, Impact Pictures, Constantin Film
Rating: R (Sequences of Strong Violence)
Genre: Horror, Action, Adventure, Mystery & Thriller, Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 14, 2012, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 1, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA): $42.3M
Runtime: 1h 36m
Sound Mix: SDDS, Datasat, Dolby Digital

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