Go Ask Alice - hot babes staying alive in Resident Evil Extinction

Staying on the road seemed the only way to stay alive

It feels strange to find oneself back in Resident Evil territory after TIFF - after all Resident Evil is no arty little horror flick with a bunch of unknowns screaming.

Two hot babes kicking butt in the Mexican desert - what is not to like about Resident Evil: Extinction? Milla Jovavich is back as Alice, and Ali Larter is Claire Redfield. Extinction has a more realistic gritty feeling - with less of the slick metallic polish and CGI that pervaded 2 or 1 - which may be ironic given the music video background of director Russell Mulcahy who has directed some of our favourite new romantic videos for Duran Duran, Human League, Spandau Ballet, Buggles and other 80s style bands. Writer/director Paul W.S. Anderson [ not the raining frogs director ] writes the script starring his fiancee Milla Jovovich who is back.

Alice? Good luck

As Alice, Jovovich still kicks zombie butt and remains Umbrella Corporation's greatest hope and fear. The ever-shrewd Dr. Isaacs is still experimenting on Alice, her blood holds the antibodies and a cure for giving the zombies their memories back, and making them suitable for domestication.

Resident Evil: Extinction begins with the near naked Alice in the shower wondering where she is. The iconic red dress. Her fighting prowess. The familiar dining room. The hall of mirrors. The lasers deadly cut.

Resident Evil: Extinction is a lively and exciting film that boldly succeeds its predecessor Resident: Evil Apocalypse. The pace leaves little room for breathing, with an awesome soundscape that keeps the tingles ever tingling. And just when you are ready to breathe, the inevitable strikes with an assortment of deadly zombies just waiting to consume the flesh.

Project Alice: the appetite for flesh is what the Umbrella Corp's Doctor Isaac is trying to combat with his experiments - a process of distillating the blood from Alice to come up with some serum that will give the zombies back their memories or brain function - they may never become human as before but they will become suitable for domestication - the next work force. The side effects of zombie mutation still pose a deadly problem for humans.

Meanwhile, the real Alice is still on the run - lying low below the radar and evading detection from satellites, still monitoring radio broadcasts. She crosses the highways on her motorbike, then just on foot. Survival in the post T-virus world means rolling on the road in a convoy with no direction home in the hot desert highways in the South

The T-virus has spread out of control, drying up the world creating a vast wasteland.
Mutated t-virus zombies abound, a constant reminder of the danger surrounding the remaining uninfected human beings.


People have a habit of dying around me

The convoy led by Claire Redfield [ Ali Larter, Niki from Heroes ] with her cohorts Carlos [Oded Fehr back from Apocalypse], LJ, Mikey and Slater and Nurse Betty drive through the roadways of the hot Nevava desert staying on the move and scavenging for supplies in abandoned towns and waystations, and their number one concern is gasoline [ and evading the zombies ] enters Mad Max territory. The schoolbus is filled with about sixty remaining survivors including children with names such as K-Mart. And their number is constantly dwindling. Trying to stay away from infection, they face not only the threat of zombies, but killer mutated birds which unleash a deadly attack.

Alice meets up with the convoy after the attack but life is far from certain. Thanks to a journal that Alice has found, the convoy decides the only way to survive is to get to Alaska where the pages purport that the infection has not reached there and there are survivors. It is their only hope. Gasoline in the trucks is at fume level, and after trying to figure out where to find the next supply, the logical but dangerous destination is Las Vegas where their future awaits.

Resident Evil: Extinction abounds with kick-ass fighting R rated scenes with Alice transcending even Apocalypse, deadly with her knives, and Claire and crew staving off the evermore dangerous zombies with a barrage of guns and incendiary devices, slices and decapitations with blades and blowing off heads with guns that inevitably run out of bullets ...