The story
of the resistance of the only survivors of the catastrophic virus release
continues. Alice fights alongside a resistance movement in the continuing
battle against the Umbrella Corporation and the undead.
The fifth
installment of the Resident Evil franchise is on the screens, and here is the
peculiar thing: the plot outlined above could have been copy-pasted from the
previous 4 parts. Resident Evil, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Resident Evil:
Extinction and Resident Evil: Afterlife – just to remind you the names, because
the stories were absolutely the same. Screenwriters just took the action to
different places, gave Alice new weapons, introduced new super-bosses and here
we go.
With the
business idea like that, the rational thing to do would be to predict the soon
end of the franchise. People could not watch the same staff all over and over
again, one would say, there are limits to patience. But here is the second
peculiar thing: despite the super-predictable movie, it is still good fun to
watch.
