Resident Evil: Retribution (2012) - Movie Review

I hate this one, NOT! This is my favorite of all of the Resident Evil movies. Why? How could you not like a movie that has Alice (Milla Yovovich) as a mom in some scenes and dressed in a skin tight leather type outfit? I will never make excuses about appreciating the female form.

I didn't like the opening sequence. It was decided to take the attack by Umbrella on the ship Arcadia in backward slow motion. It gave me a headache. I liked that you got to see the attack in both directions, eventually leading to the capture of Alice, but I could have done without the backward slow motion.

When the movie first begins we see Alice is married to Carlos. Yes, I said Carlos! As in Carlos Olivera (Oded Fehr) from the second and third movies. But Carlos died at the end of Resident Evil: Extinction. However, he is back Resident Evil: Retribution. And as Alice's husband. If that isn't mind boggling enough, Alice and Carlos have a daughter.

Carlos is attacked in their home, but Alice and Becky (Aryana Engineer) escape. They climb into their attic and eventually make it outside where they see chaos erupting in their suburban neighborhood. Alice and Becky almost get hit by a car driven by Rain (Michelle Rodriguez). YES, I said Rain! But, Rain died in the first movie, you say? Well she's back! As Rain, Alice and Becky drive off, being chased by the undead, their car is t-boned by a garbage truck. Alice and Becky leave Rain in the car, believing she is dead, and take refuge in a nearby house. Alice hides Becky and she is eventually attacked by her husband, Carlos. Of course I like this scene because it depicts Alice as a regular woman, wife and mother, with no hint of what she really is.

The fight scenes are pretty damn good in this movie. Like the first scene where Alice is fighting a group of Chinese undead. She uses a chain with a lock and a handgun with two, what looks like, ten or twelve round clips to kill about ten or twelve undead. Another pretty good scene is when Jill Valentine (Sienna Guillory) and her security team track down Alice and Ada Wong (Li Bingbing). Alice had found Becky in the same house as before, that is where Jill found Alice, Ada and Becky. I won't go into detail about this scene, but I will say that it is pretty good. The Moscow fighting is pretty good also.

I like the final fight scene best. It has Alice fighting Jill. Both are evenly matched, but Alice eventually takes the scarab device on Jill's chest off. Luther West (Boris Kodjoe) and Leon S. Kennedy (Johann Urb) fight with the evil Rain, who has injected herself with a solution that includes the T-Virus. Rain eventually kills Luther, apparently, but Alice shoots at the ice under Rain's feet and she falls into the water. Rain tries to climb out of the hole but is dragged back into the hole by some undead.

I give this Resident Evil movie 10 out of 10 stars. I can't wait for the next movie coming in 2014. I hope it is as good or better as Resident Evil: Retribution.