Today I saw the next film in the Resident Evil franchise, Resident Evil: Afterlife. To me this film was compressed too much of slow motion, gore, and predictable action sequences.
At first the film embarks on an interesting path with a lone girl standing in the middle of Tokyo looking dazed, bewildered, and containing a placid look. My immediate response was that this film was going to contain some technological updates from the others, and contain more slow motion (since it was in 3-D). However, there was no esoteric depth to this film in any presence. The actors all have expressionless faces throughout the film and hamper the connection with the film goers allowing for no emotions to be conveyed between the audience and the actors. Moreover, this new edition to the sequel generated unanswered questions. My first puzzlement was at the beginning when the Tokyo headquarters was being infiltrated by clones representing Alice. This bewilderment allowed me to ponder on how Alice got this ability and that question was never answered. Another thing to take note on was the slow motion sequences. By the time the film reached the middle, the whole entire story line was already replenished with cliches. The slow motion became unmistakeably trite and useless to the satire of the film. It can be inferred that the slow motion was only incorporated to increase more profit for the 3D film. The one thing that made my blood boil was how the Los Angeles survivors were the stereotypes of California, just rich famous movie producers and gay men. This added to the detached plot and stale performances.
All in all, if I had to compare this film to something, I would compare it to a teen's film project. Simply put it was a cornucopia of banal lines, an impenetrable plot, and a lavish of money grabbing effects. I just hope the next installment suffers a budget crisis or gets cancelled.
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