tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797284234078302183.post5820564414819544744..comments2024-01-26T14:35:09.185-05:00Comments on GUARDIANS OF THE GENRE!: RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION – 2012 – RESILIENT AS EVER!Fritz "Doc" Freakensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13209589620766485745noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797284234078302183.post-42447492104128180782012-09-17T21:24:51.657-04:002012-09-17T21:24:51.657-04:00Hey, FC!
I read your review on TFC shortly after...Hey, FC!<br /><br /><br />I read your review on TFC shortly after seeing Resident Evil: Retribution and while I sympathize with your low opinion of it, I don’t completely share it. I don’t think the plot for Resident Evil: Retribution was any more simplistic than any of the previous films. The plot of Resident Evil: Afterlife consists of Alice looking for Acadia, crashing on a prison, escaping the prison and finding out that Acadia is a ship. The only complication of that plot is that the ship is really an Umbrella research facility which is conducting experiments on the survivors. What makes Resident Evil: Afterlife more interesting than Resident Evil: Retribution is that the newly introduced characters (particularly West and Bennett) are allowed time to develop some character; whereas RE:R reintroduces Jill Valentine, Rain Ocampo, Carlos Olivera, Luther West and James "One" Shade all of who are given no character development, because they are all clones being controlled by the Red Queen AI.<br /><br /><br />We’re also given very little information about the motives behind the Red Queen AI, so that all the obstacles that Alice has to go through to escape the Umbrella facility seem unimportant, because you know that she will ultimately survive them, just as she did the previous four films. Also, the idea that Albert Wesker would suddenly want to save Alice, just so that she can help him save the remainder of humanity from the zombie Apocalypse seems out of character to me. So there is a plot to Resident Evil: Retribution, it’s just not a very well thought out or executed one. Some foreshadowing of the Red Queen’s actions in Resident Evil: Afterlife may have helped, but the way that the film currently transitions into Resident Evil: Retribution makes this film feel very disjointed and confusing.<br /><br /><br />I do have faith that Paul W. S. Anderson will make the sixth and last Resident Evil film better and help make sense out of the plot mess of Resident Evil: Retribution.<br />Fritz "Doc" Freakensteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13209589620766485745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5797284234078302183.post-46333777774129344482012-09-17T12:47:46.804-04:002012-09-17T12:47:46.804-04:00This one was torture for me, I just couldn't t...This one was torture for me, I just couldn't take how flimsy it all felt, though these films have never had much substance to them, this one felt overtly simplistic, as if it was filler, simply made to stretch things out, make a little extra money before giving us the last one. <br /><br />Of course, I loved that cliffhanger, but damn it, if only the rest of the film had been as good. I'm actually a fan of Anderson, but he let me down with this one. It felt like he was just going through the motions. <br /><br />I think people are going to see these because they expect a story to be resolved somehow, but this particular film feels so unimportant...still I had some fun with it, but not as much as I was expecting. Franco Macabrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10994905312221715861noreply@blogger.com