The Gist: Alice, with the help of an army of her clones, takes the fight to the Umbrella Corporation, but only half succeeds. Deprived of her superpowers, she tries to find Arcadia, allegedly the last safe place to live on Earth.
Our heroine starts out super kick-ass but is still fierce even after she loses her abilities. Unfortunately, Milla Jovovich is the only character who doesn’t look two dimensional. Or better yet, she’s the only actress who’s able (or cares) to give her character an edge in spite of the screenplay’s glaring limitations.
The ridiculous and gratuitous events multiply, like an army of zombies keeping an enormous prison under permanent siege in spite of the handful of people left inside. All we’ve ever been told about zombies is that they are dead people who can still ambulate and are driven to feed on the still living. That they would not move on after days of not being able to breach the complex defies all expectations.
Alice’s landing on the complex’s roof is absurd, the giant hammer-wielding mutant mountain comes from nowhere, the zombies with protruding octopus like arms from their mouths are ridiculous, and so on.
The Bottom Line: Sure the visual effects are fantastic and it’s great to see Alice kick everyone’s ass in spite of not being superhuman any longer, but the fourth episode in the series has shed every last bit of pride and simply caters to the undying fan of the franchise who will watch and enjoy every trashy frame of film that’s put out there. Skip it.
Grade: 3
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