RESIDENT EVIL
EXTINCTION

"They're coming"

Five years after the Racoon City outbreak, the T-Virus has engulfed the world killing billions and transforming them into the undead. As the Earth slowly dies and the once rich fertile lands become barren deserts, survivors roam the dusty roads of the world, trying to find a place where the T-Virus and the hordes of undead haven't touched. Carlos Olivera (Fehr) and Claire Redfield (Larter) are leading a caravan of survivors, evading ravenous attacks and finding just enough to get by but everything is running out and undead are increasing in number. All is lost until a stranger saves them from an attack, someone that the Umbrella desperately needs back, Alice (Jovovich).

The Undead return and this time they have taken over the world but can the third 'Resident Evil' movie inject something new into what is becoming a saturated genre?

Once a stable of the horror genre, the zombie became complete dead after its heyday in the George A. Romero classic. It wasn't until video games companies Capcom, Konami and Sega resurrected them in the survival horror classics 'Resident Evil' (Biohazard, as it was known in Japan), 'Silent Hill' and 'House of the Dead' that the undead started to walk again. With this newfound interest amongst the young, in 2002 the film industry took notice and two zombie movies staggered and moaned their way onto the big screen and re-ignited the genre. One of those movies was Danny Boyle's '28 Days Later' and the second was an adaptation of one of those video games that sparked the interest all over again, Paul W.S. Anderson's take on the 'Resident Evil' franchise. Both films were big successes and paved the way for many a remake, sequel, homage and reimagination of the zombie movie.

With the first movie seen as a prequel to the first video game, the second film 'Resident Evil: Apocalypse' combining the stories of second and third games, fans where interest in seeing were the third movie would go and how it would take not only the story of Alice and the Umbrella corporation but if it would take any elements from the ultra-successful and critically acclaimed 'Resident Evil 4'. The answer is that this takes the movie franchise in a new direction and is made all the better for it. Five years on, the T-Virus has spread throughout the world and only a rag, tag group of survivors are left to take the fight to Umbrella and discover a cure.

Milla Jovovich returns as Alice, the genetically engineered, Umbrella designed fighting machine who decides to take the fight to the corporation that created her. While she has always relied on her looks and undoubted skill in a fight scenes to progress her career, the former model has really made Alice her signature character. The three movies has really seen the character and the actress progress and this is Milla's best performance yet. Oded Fehr returns as Carlos Olivera, along with Mike Epps as L.J. and Iain Glen is also back as Umbrella's chief scientist on the Alice project Dr. Isaacs. New characters include game favourite Claire Redfield, played by 'Heroes' star Ali Larter and singer-turner-actress Ashanti as Betty.

'Resident Evil: Extinction' progresses the film story very well. While game fans might still be angry that the films continue to stray away from the game plots, 'Highlander' director Russell Mulcahy does good job of creating a post-apocalyptic world and pushing Alice plotline along. The Undead are hungry again and 'Resident Evil: Extinction' gives them something to sink their teeth into.

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