Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D (Anderson, 2010)

[ozzylogic]

I'm amazed there's no thread about this potential turkey. Anyhow, I'm creating one only to share this:

I was going through its Rotten Tomatoes page (where it scores 22%, 2% higher than Transformers 2), and out of all the rotten reviews...one tomato stood out, and you guessed it, it was by none other than the ultimate hack critic himself, Armond White, who had this nugget to share with us, and I quote

If critics and fanboys weren’t suckers for simplistic nihilism and high-pressure marketing, Afterlife would be universally acclaimed as a visionary feat, superior to Inception and Avatar on every level.

I think Milla Jovovich or Ali Larter gave him a happy ending.

[ayaa1977]

I'm amazed there's no thread about this potential turkey. Anyhow, I'm creating one only to share this:

I was going through its Rotten Tomatoes page (where it scores 22%, 2% higher than Transformers 2), and out of all the rotten reviews...one tomato stood out, and you guessed it, it was by none other than the ultimate hack critic himself, Armond White, who had this nugget to share with us, and I quote

If critics and fanboys weren’t suckers for simplistic nihilism and high-pressure marketing, Afterlife would be universally acclaimed as a visionary feat, superior to Inception and Avatar on every level.

I think Milla Jovovich or Ali Larter gave him a happy ending.

He is a moron. I have listened to him hailing himself as the only legitimate critic out there. So I would not waste 5 min of my time reading his stupidity. Life is too short for that, and I say that when I have no problem spending hours on Facebook, you know.

[animatedude]

who is he??

[X.]

He is Armond White.

[madali]

Resident Evil: Afterlife (Paul W.S. Anderson, 2010)

Maybe I watched the movie at a time when the mood was not right. I usually like plot-less nonsense action-packed films that have physically impossible moves, but well, not always. Sometimes, it just gets on my nerves. I'm not sure exactly why some of them really works with me, like I loved Milla Jovovich saving the world and kicking bad guy ass in "Ultraviolet" but hated Milla Jovovich saving the world and kicking bad guy ass in "Resident Evil: Afterlife". Is one movie actually much better than the other, or was it that I was just in the correct state of mind? If I watched "Ultraviolet" at exactly the same time, day, and state of mind, when I watched this film, would I hate it?

These are all deep philosophical questions we need to ponder. I was so utterly bored by the first twenty minutes or so of continuous bullshit action and when Milla's character sets off to an island devoid of humans, I was like, man, I wish the movie would just take a break here. Let our hot zombie killer just relax on the beach, walk around, and just have the movie turn into an art-house film were the next hour is Alice just hanging around and in the final minutes, gets killed by a zombie. That's what the film did to me, turned me into a snobby, pretentious film viewer.

2/5

[fizz]

Maybe I watched the movie at a time when the mood was not right. I usually like plot-less nonsense action-packed films that have physically impossible moves, but well, not always.

Perhaps you should re-watch Equilibrium in the same mood (read: objective) to form a second opinion

[fizz]

P.S. I watched snippets on the film while my sister was watching it and the zombie dogs had me rolling on the floor!

[madali]

Everything was slow motion, "cool" dialogue, slow motion. So tiresome.

[shariqq]

Although I've seen them all, I don't even remember which Resident Evil movie has what (save the excellent first one).

One had a monster Zombie, one had a monster axe-something wielding guy in rain. One had a deserted Las Vegas Strip, one had a hi-tech ship, and I think some of them had multiple Alices.

Gah. All those jumbled memories still can't make me forget the one which had Michelle Rodriguez.

[ozzylogic]

Mad, you're being generous with your rating

I thought Extinction was pretty okay, way better than the second part, which was very, very sad.

[ayaa1977]

I have seen the three films and only the first one was good. Paul W.S. Anderson, who's not known for the quality of his films, at least makes watchable and well made B-movies. My favorite of his is Event Horizon which frighten the crap off me back when I saw it in the 90's. I should re-watch it to see whether it holds up.

[ozzylogic]

Event Horizon was an excellent film! It made me realize the inspiration behind Dead Space.