Resident Evil: Retribution

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Resident Evil: Retribution

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2012

1h 36m

Horror

Action

Adventure

Mystery & Thriller

Sci-Fi

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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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B P

@Bradster69 Sep 2, 2026

Not Bad, but Not My Favorite

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diogo13 T

@Tua_mera Jul 12, 2026

Sinceramente, um conceito muito ousado para um filme de Resident Evil. Este aqui despeja um monte de personagens de videogame em cima de nós e eles ainda parecem cosplays malfeitos.

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Venator b

@BbwEnyojer Feb 7, 2026

This movie, and every single one after the first, is nothing but cheap, horribly handled fan service. The director keeps teasing ideas just to throw them straight into the trash in the next film, and this ending makes it painfully obvious that he’s full of hot air. And don’t even get me started on the scripts they’re more full of holes than John Marston

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bob t

@RT89536276 Oct 5, 2025

Would have been just as good as the others if it weren't for some of the characters bad acting. Thats the only reason it loses half a star.

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kevenquinlan T

@RT75276071 Sep 11, 2025

Ok, I ripped the whole franchise, never seen any of them before, and it's 2025. No. The 1st was meh. The 2nd I couldn't finish- it sucked. The 3rd was a b level zombie flick, better than the last 2. The 4th, had some nice looks to it but again, a zombie movie with no real script other than escaping zombies. I thought it ok. The 5th, Retribution, I couldn't finish. In order to keep the franchise they were going to have to really slam-dunk the last 2 movies but this was feeling like the 2nd one, which I hated, and there was just no way to save it. I won't be keeping any of them and won't be watching the last chapter. I trip that this made 1 billion, as a franchise, but some people just like action movies no matter how lame or nonsensical. Deleting them after I write this.

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Samuel S

Aug 11, 2025

Well done. Afterlife is still the best out of the series.

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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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