Miscellaneous Afterlife Updates

[CrimsonElder]

8 reviews now. Still all negative.

Im shocked. Seriously who on earth could have predicted this one?

[Darkmoon]

Doesn't matter how many are negative. Anderson only cares that the people in the cinema he goes in have a good time. Because it's very likely he goes in dozens of them all around the world, and not just a few full of the cast, guests and such.

Oi.

[Karui]

I think they focused too much on 3D and special effects and didn't put enough focus into story and characterization.

I give it 1/10 and I haven't even actually seen it.

What....a 5th movie? Really? My god....stop this please...strike down paul....cut the funding....DO SOMETHING!!

[Darkmoon]

I'm still witholding my judgement, for now. The spoilers make it sound meh, the previous ones were meh, the trailers were meh...but never judge something until you've seen it yourself.

[RetroRain]

I'm not going to see this piece of shit movie (I'm done with these movies, which is why I sold the first three I had on Ebay). But, everyone knew that this movie would suck before it even came out.

But I'm just curious about one thing. Can someone list all of the monsters that appeared in the movie? Was there any new ones besides the ones we have seen? Like, Hunters, Hunter Gammas, Lurkers, Giant Moths, etc? I doubt it, but I'm just curious if there were.

[CRedfield98]

Just got back from the movie, here is my review:

Spoiler:

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Rating: 2/5
It was probably the second best film in the series, not because of Afterlife's greatness but due to the fact that Resident Evil Apocalypse and Extinction were just that awful.

As said in previous posts they focused way too much on 3D affects than plot or the characters in the movie which was very disappointing. There were so many situations where things jumped out at you that the 3D effects just looked forced. Okay now on to the the few positives. I was happy to see the clones dead and Alice with out powers. Back to the negatives. The movie was very predictable. An example being the moment any secondary characters were put in a situation where they could die, they did. Such as when Chris, Alice and an unknown female character go off in the prison in search of weapons. Literally 2 minutes later unknown female character is dead. Also We never really got a real introduction to how Wesker got his powers. He briefly mentioned that he injected himself with the T-Virus and that was it and he needed to "ingest" Alice to stop the Virus from controlling him. Like really? You're Albert Wesker, you are suppose to be the most evil and sinister character in the Resident Evil series and thats' your whole evil plot? I was also very disappointed in the fact that Jill only had the cameo at the end. When I first saw the previews and noticed that the fight scene from RE5 was going to be the movie, I was expecting Wesker and Jill vs Claire and Chris. It turned out to be Wesker with another unknown and annoying character vs Alice, Chris and Claire. Wesker quick and unimaginative demise was worse than his death in the video game, and I literally almost shouted in the theatre at the end of the movie. Like really? That was it? The movie was just too short and left so much to be desired.

On a finale note, what annoyed me the most (And what probably ruined the movie for me altogether) were reading Anderson's statements in interviews before the movie was released. He said that he was quite unsure if there was going to be a 5th movie and it all depended on if RE: Afterlife does well. I can totally understand this, nobody is going to make a sequel to a movie that nobody saw. This would led any intelligent human being to believe that Afterlife was probably going to be the final movie and that the series was going to come to a close. Or at the very least, they were going end Afterlife in a way that if the movie did indeed tank, the audience could still walk away from the film and there would be some sense of ending/closure to the story.....WRONG!!!! With the way the movie ended (Jill flying in a fleet of Umbrella helicopters going to attack Alice, Chris, Claire and the other survivors) it is virtually impossible for them to not make a 5th Resident Evil movie. He blatantly lied. Anderson basically said, "Hey if this movie sucks ass and nobody sees it, we just won't make another movie and I'll just leave this huge plot twist at the end with no sort of closure for the story." This infuriates me, and makes me wonder how this man has ever made it in the entertainment/movie making business.

This may be a naive pipe dream, but I had a strong hope that the rumors of rebooting the series after this movie would actually happen. Now that it will not happen for the foreseeable future, we will unfortunately sooner or later have another awful Resident Evil movie on our hands.

Again this is just my personal opinion and review of this movie. If you liked the movie, I don't hate you or anything but like....come on man.

[BrionIrons]

I'm not going to see this piece of shit movie (I'm done with these movies, which is why I sold the first three I had on Ebay). But, everyone knew that this movie would suck before it even came out.

But I'm just curious about one thing. Can someone list all of the monsters that appeared in the movie? Was there any new ones besides the ones we have seen? Like, Hunters, Hunter Gammas, Lurkers, Giant Moths, etc? I doubt it, but I'm just curious if there were.

me neither.im not seeing this garbage either. saw a preview of it on g4 and i already hate.the hell with those movies.ill wait for capcom to make another cgi movie.i like those better.

[CrimsonElder]

Lol its actually hilarious to watch people say hey I'm going to watch this movie even though I know its probably going to be trash. Now after seeing it they are saying yeah it was trash and I feel let down I hope they dont make another.....Yeah right you will just end up paying to go and see that to. Some people never learn.

[lanaka]

I'm not going to spoil anything here, just give my personal opinion on the movie.

Frankly, I thought it was yet another mindlessly trashy entry in a mindlessly trashy series of movies. Okay if you're looking for a quick action flick, but leave your brain at the ticket booth, you won't be needing it.

There were far too many parts where I had to roll my eyes, or wonder to myself if Paul Anderson had been dropped on his head as a child. The entire film felt like it was just one action scene stitched to another, haphazardly, with the occasional (ridiculous) exposition scene sprinkled in here and there, to give the viewer some semblance of progression.

All in all, the movie was probably just as terrible as the others (personally, I found Apocalypse to be the best one so far, simply due to the atmosphere), but as others have said and/or implied, that really isn't saying very much.

[SNPAL21]

Personally I like this movie more than the last 3. I hope there is a part 5 & even though the movie was wayy off on the game series. It was still very entertaining to watch, especially in 3-D! Also hopefully they will feature more characters in the future films. =]