The first Resident Evil film was, early on, what looked to be the beginning of a successful film franchise filled with gore and action. You even a got a few shots of Milla Jovovich‘s naughty bits for good measure. After that though, things went down hill.
It no longer has any real connection to the original subject matter, the characters you actually want to see have become mere co-stars and Paul W.S. Anderson gets to nail his lead actress. It has finally peaked. But, after all the girl-on-monster fighting, we finally get what we’ve all been waiting for in this newest clip from Resident Evil: Retribution - girl-on-girl fighting action.
Except it comes with that filler and signature ”go big, but add more quick cuts and slow-mo” filming you’ve come to expect from Anderson. And never mind that you can’t hear the audio. It was too embarrassed to be involved in this rough cut you’re about to watch.
Honestly, is anyone – Paul in particular – even trying anymore or is Screen Gems just prepping us for Resident Evil: Shut up and give us your money?
Resident Evil: Retribution, starring Milla Jovovic‘s ass, is the 5th and final movie in the Resident Evil franchise. And thank god for that. If Paul W.S. Anderson made another one of these gawd awful movies, I’d, well, I dunno what I’d do. All I know is I would be very mad about it.
It’s rant time…
The popularity of these films is beyond me. I mean come on, they don’t even honor the video game series from which they’re based. Anderson took the names of characters and a few recognizable monstrosities and did whatever the hell he wanted. It’s like “oh, lets make Alice a super hero and make hundreds of leather-clad clones of her. And, lets shoot a whole bunch of slow-mo scenes in the rain. Yeah, fans will love that!” Also, IMO, Anderson didn’t even make movie. Every flick in the franchise, so far, has been nothing but a hyper stylized music video, with dazzling fight scenes timed with some butt-rock anthem. I’m not asking for a Oscar-worthy screen play or anything, but give me a decent story with characters and motivations I actually care about. Amirite?
OK, enough of my gibber-jabber. For those that care, Screen Gems has released two new TV spots for Resident Evil: Retribution.
The movie stars Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Sienna Guillory, Kevin Durand, Shawn Roberts, Colin Salmon, Johann Urb, Boris Kodjoe and Li Bingbing.
Synopsis:
The Umbrella Corporation’s deadly T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of the flesh eating Undead. The human race’s last and only hope, ALICE (Milla Jovovich), awakens in the heart of Umbrella’s most clandestine operations facility and unveils more of her mysterious past as she delves further into the complex. Without a safe haven, Alice continues to hunt those responsible for the outbreak; a chase that takes her from Tokyo to New York, Washington, D.C. and Moscow, culminating in a mind-blowing revelation that will force her to rethink everything that she once thought to be true. Aided by newfound allies and familiar friends, Alice must fight to survive long enough to escape a hostile world on the brink of oblivion. The countdown has begun.
Seven new production stills for the upcoming Resident Evil: Retribution movie hit the Internet the other day. There’s some great looks at Alice’s fighting costume, love the leather look, but not to thrilled about all the “cut out” sections that will most likely just get conveniently ripped up during the fighting. It’s great to see some of the other Resident Evil characters making appearances as well.
The movie hits theaters September 14th and although there will be plenty of fan boy lamenting in every forum and comments section, butts will fill seats and the movie, like all it’s predecessors, will make tons of money.
In the fifth installment of the action/horror franchise, the Umbrella Corporation’s deadly T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of the flesh eating Undead. The human race’s last and only hope, Alice (Milla Jovovich), awakens in the heart of Umbrella’s most clandestine operations facility and unveils more of her mysterious past as she delves further into the complex. Without a safe haven, Alice continues to hunt those responsible for the outbreak; a chase that takes her from Tokyo to New York, Washington, D.C. and Moscow, culminating in a mind-blowing revelation that will force her to rethink everything that she once thought to be true. Aided by newfound allies and familiar friends, Alice must fight to survive long enough to escape a hostile world on the brink of oblivion. The countdown has begun.
Sony/Screen Gems has released its first look at the upcoming five-quel Resident Evil: Retribution – in 3-D! I’m assuming that if you’re checking out, Underworld: Awakening on the weekend, you’ll be able to see it on the big screen, but if you’re taking a mulligan on Kate Beckinsale in skin tight leather, then you can click play on the embed below.
Is it just me, or do you also have no idea idea what it’s about? Let’s check out the plot synopsis:
The Umbrella Corporation’s deadly T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of the flesh eating Undead. The human race’s last and only hope, Alice (Milla Jovovich), awakens in the heart of Umbrella’s most clandestine operations facility and unveils more of her mysterious past as she delves further into the complex. Without a safe haven, Alice continues to hunt those responsible for the outbreak; a chase that takes her from Tokyo to New York, Washington, D.C. and Moscow, culminating in a mind-blowing revelation that will force her to rethink everything that she once thought to be true. Aided by newfound allies and familiar friends, Alice must fight to survive long enough to escape a hostile world on the brink of oblivion. The countdown has begun.
I don’t know how that lines up with what I just saw, but, you know, whatever.
THREE-DEE!!!
Resident Evil: Retribution opens on September 14 and stars Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Sienna Guillory, Kevin Durand, Shawn Roberts, Colin Salmon, Johann Urb, Boris Kodjoe and Li Bingbing. The film was directed by Paul W(ell) S(hit) Anderson.
Resident Evil: Retribution, staring Milla Jovovich’s ass, is the 5th film in the RE film franchise. Oi! 5 horrible, light your genitals on fire, bad films.I really don’t get why this franchise has succeeded beyond two films. The last flick, Resident Evil Afterlife, was by far the worst. All style and no substance. Awful dialogue, and embarrassingly simplistic storytelling. Retards shot out of a canon with paint brushes in hand could paint a better picture than director Paul W.S. Anderson. Suffice to say, these movies blow and are nothing like the games they are based on.
Regardless, Resident Evil: Retribution is on it’s way. Sony’s Screen Gems has released the official synopsis for film. Enjoy.
The wildly successful film franchise adaptation that has grossed nearly $700 million worldwide to the popular video game series, “Resident Evil,” returns in its highly anticipated fifth installment, “Resident Evil: Retribution” in state-of-the art 3D.
The Umbrella Corporation’s deadly T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of the flesh eating Undead. The human race’s last and only hope, Alice (Milla Jovovich), awakens in the heart of Umbrella’s most clandestine operations facility and unveils more of her mysterious past as she delves further into the complex. Without a safe haven, Alice continues to hunt those responsible for the outbreak; a chase that takes her from Tokyo to New York, Washington, D.C. and Moscow, culminating in a mind-blowing revelation that will force her to rethink everything that she once thought to be true. Aided by newfound allies and familiar friends, Alice must fight to survive long enough to escape a hostile world on the brink of oblivion. The countdown has begun.
Opening in theaters on September 14, the fifth installment stars Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Sienna Guillory, Kevin Durand, Shawn Roberts, Colin Salmon, Johann Urb, Boris Kodjoe and Li Bingbing.
Milla Jovovich (HAWT fake nerd actress) is currently in the middle of filming Resident Evil: Retribution alongside husband/director Paul W. S. Anderson.
Being the loving wife that she is, Milla has found a great way in generating buzz in RE5, by uploading exclusive behind-the-scenes shots between filming to twitter (@MillaJovovich). Her most recent post went as such:
Milla linked a shot of actress Li Bingbing in the makeup department getting prepped as a certain “bitch in a red dress”.
Li is going to be Resident Evil alum Ada Wong and she matches Ada perfectly, even if it’s only because of the hair right now. Milla went on to tweet: “Lol! And that’s all I’m gonna give you or I’m in deep sh*t!!!” Come on Milla, one more won’t kill you because… nobody cares! The last two movies stunk. Real bad. I don’t believe that anyone would actually pay money to see another.
Resident Evil: Retribution‘s tough chick quotient just went up with news from Bloody-Disgusting saying that Paul W.S. Anderson has recruited Michelle Rodriguez, who played in Rain in Resident Evil 1, to reprise her role in the new part 5. Normally, this wouldn’t be such a big deal, but if you’ll recall, Rain died in Resident Evil 1! Oh, way, SPOILER ALERT!
The news of Rodriguez’s return comes hot on the heels that Colin Salmon would also be back in his part 1 role as One, which seems to suggest either a flashback sequence in Retribution, or some kind of mass cloning operation. Both explanations are utterly plausible in the Resident Evil universe.
Both Rodriguez and Salmon will be joining stars Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory and Shawn Roberts in Retribution, which is now in production in Toronto for a Fall 2012 release… IN 3-D!
I’ve never been a fan of the Resident Evil movies, but I guess there’s a significant enough portion of the population that enjoys them, even more so now that they’re in 3-D. Whatever.
The next Resident Evil movie, cheekily titled Resident Evil: Retribution, will begin production next month on October 16th under the sure hand of almost-an-auteur Paul W.S. Anderson. With less than a month until the video game adaptation goes before the cameras, in far flung locations from Toronto to Tokyo, some spoilers concerning the film’s storyline have been leaked. And while the leaker, once know, would usually get into trouble and/or lose their job, it’s a very different situation when your sleeping with the director. And when you’re the film’s leading lady.
Here’s some of Milla Jovovich‘s spoilers:
Leon Kennedy and Barry Burton will make their first appearances in the series along with Ada Wong, who was in the Resident Evil 2, 4, and The Darkside Chronicles video games. Shawn Roberts will also return to play the villainous Albert Wesker.
Chris Redfield (Wentworth Miller), Claire Redfield (Ali Larter), and K-Mart (Spencer Locke) won’t return because they’ve been abducted by the Umbrella Corporation. Sienna Guillory will be back again as Jill Valentine however and you can expect some fireworks between her and Alice (Jovovich).
Remember mind-controlling parasite “Las Plagas” in Resident Evil 4? It’s bacccckkkk. She tweeted: “alright guys! gotta go! 1 let mini spoiler tho! we will hve the Las Plagas parasite!!! have an awesome day!”
Jovovich says she is hopeful that a sixth Resident Evil keeps all the major characters together, alluding of course that all of the new characters will survive Retribution.
And from Jovovich’s Twitter feed comes these extras:
“the red square sequence is THE MOST COMPLICATED CHASE SCENE PAUL (her husband / director) HAS EVER PLANNED FOR! ITS GONNA BE EPIC!”
“its gonna be SIIIIICK!! paul leaves the production meeting reeling from the logistical complications off how 2 shoot them!!”
“we’ll b the 1st movie 2 hve a chase scene in a rolls royce which we will get shot up, but still runs cause they’re awesome!”
Are you excited yet? I guess we’ll find out for sure when Retribution comes out next fall.
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