Resident Evil: Retribution

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• Genre: Action/Adventure, Horror, SciFi/Fantasy
• Release Date: 2012-09-14 Nationwide
• Running Time: 95 min.
• Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
• Cast: Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Michelle Rodriguez, Kevin Durand, Bingbing Li, Oded Fehr, Johann Urb, Shawn Roberts, Boris Kodjoe, Colin Salmon
• Producers: Paul W.S. Anderson, Jeremy Bolt, Don Carmody
• Writer: Paul W.S. Anderson
• Distributor: Screen Gems
• Official Site: Resident Evil: Retribution Official Site

Most action filmmakers are lucky to generate as much sheer razzle-dazzle in the course of an entire movie as Paul W.S. Anderson gets into the first five minutes of Resident Evil: Retribution, running the opening set piece in voluptuous reverse slow-motion, with spent shell casings leaping back into pistols and shock troops slurped skyward by helicopters. The fifth entry in the Resident Evil franchise and the third directed by Anderson-- one of the few filmmakers who makes 3-D worth the glasses rental fee-- Retribution 3-D picks up where 2010’s Afterlife 3-D left off, with Milla Jovovich’s Alice in a pitched battle with the insidious Umbrella Corporation’s forces. Captured, Alice awakens in one of those underground compounds of which Anderson is hopelessly fond, a proving grounds test facility made up of "stages" through which she must escape by passing through a series of one-upping trapeze-act combat numbers toward a rendezvous point with allies. A submerged world of soundstage set pieces populated by rudimentarily human cloned dummies, Umbrella’s universe is essentially that of Anderson, whose lavish visual imagination is matched to a placeholder idea of character that’s almost avant-garde in its generic stylization, dialogue buffed of personality by passing through 10,000 previous movies. Still, Anderson is pitch-perfect when singing the body electric, and it’s impossible to call any movie whose finale incorporates nuclear submarines and a zombie feeding frenzy in arctic waters less than a triumph of the human spirit.