Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)

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This movie had some good action, but I think the escape felt somehow impossible and yet it happened. Somehow the Red Queen had all this ability to track the intruders and escapers but the ability for the Umbrella employees to locate them took what seemed forever. I'm also curious what limits the creation of the super zombies other than what's convenient for the movie.

Rating: 3.0/5

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huh. that was quite unexpected. she wakes up. things seem super normal. and then a zombie comes in. what is perhaps more strange is how he reacted.
Michelle Rodriguez [Rain]
lol. maybe don't keep the windows down?
oh wow. is Michelle Rodriguez [Rain] dead? was this just a cameo?
ah ok. she's still ok. but what exactly do the zombies seek out if they just pass by the car
so it's just a dream?
kind of random to have clothes in a prisoner area; though at least there aren't weapons so I guess maybe these are what prisoner clothes look like at a Umbrella facility?
I love that she keeps the bike chain for a melee weapon
trippy. sweep the corridor with the laser grid and the door opens to the outside world. but they spent all that time interrogating her, and they were gonna slice her with a laser grid?
whoa "Tokyo sequence initialized"
are they all zombies?
pretty good choreography
aww... why did she throw the bike chain away
hehe the uniform/drawer contained platform shoes (at least practical relative to high heels)
Ada Wong in her standard wear. Interestingly I barely have played Resident Evil 4
huh. Leon
he looks kind of weird, but he's wearing his classic brown jacket
hmm. question. what's the point in amassing money if the whole world is in shit. in particular, I feel like creating an antidote wuold have been equally profitable. if not more. and smarter too
ah. what we saw earlier was this simulation
oh. a clone of Alice (ah so earlier it was a clone of Michelle Rodriguez's character [Rain]; which I guess thinking back she died in the first movie... I think she had been bitten partway through anyways so at some point she sacrificed herself?)
since everything was as we witnessed earlier, it means the area has not been reset. so the little girl will be alive?
and Michelle Rodriguez gets to be back! along with other former team members
while this kid is just a clone, she is nevertheless a person... so I think it's reasonable for Alice not to abandon her. like sure if she died along the way, then it is what it is...
sometimes the characters, hehe I mean actors, look funny as they're just kind of standing there. here Jill. and earlier at the opening the way Alice was standing. just kind of hehe non-superhero. which like is the meme in that Black Widow movie
hehe the uniform has nipples ("they're coming, we have to hurry. go")
ah. the other Michelle Rodriguez [Rain] clone. she's wearing heels. I feel like in such a survival situation, she should have found shoes to switch out to.
whoa. would it even make sense to shoot this beast of a thing?
I guess we don't really hear Leon speak in RE4. So perhaps hearing him talk here. he sounds cheesy. the way he said "She always hasa plan"
hehe Leon said he wouldn't have risked so much for one person. that's good. a lot of times these groups saving just one person doesn't seem reasonable
ah. how sad. she's dead already (the civilian Michelle Rodriguez [Rain] clone)
why would that big monster go for that one little girl and just stop there. do all zombies just want to eat? it seems like... why do these other zombies have an incentive to shoot their targets? are they just trying to spread the virus? doesn't the host have to be alive for success? oh well haha. I guess somehow the virus reanimates the dead. I still feel like I'm heading to a major weirdness in how zombies even work. let's just take it back to the main question. why did the big zombie come all that way hunting just to grab a single little girl when it could have (assuming it's goal is to spread a virus) just kill and contaminate everybody in the area
what!?! she managed to kill that big monster so easily
epic final shot
dang. that's a lot of clones.
okay. I feel like Ada Wong has to survive. But if she survives, the so can Jill. And I imagine other zombies as well.
of course. one of the subs. but in reality how did the get to a sub in time from their position
eww. bullets out the fingertips.
I feel like if you threw out the axe like that, you would track where it went for later
huh. looks like Jill released her weapon, it didn't look like she got disengaged. but it would be weird to release the weapon without a reason like landing a blow
hehe. really? just had to rip off the device?
holy cow. what a way to die
Jill had this device whose claws were in her chest but it doesn't seem like she has any wound marks
hehe awkward. he grabs her thigh
hehe she takes his hand off
weird. Jill gets blocked at the door and immediately turns around to look at a computer
this portrayal of Wesker seems like a cheap copy of Agent Smith
where does one go from here? somehow destroy several nations worth of zombies?

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Resident Evil: Retribution (2012) Paul W.S. Anderson. 95 min

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