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Resident Evil: Extinction ***½
France/Australia/Germany/UK/USA: Russell Mulcahy, 2007
Yesterday evening, Lyris and I ransacked our self-dignity by watching the Blu-ray release of Resident Evil: Extinction. This franchise is probably our joint favourite cinematic guilty pleasure, and, while I can't respond to criticisms that the scripts are guff, the acting often dreadful and direction somewhere between frenetic and incompetent with anything other than a nod of my head, these films have given me hours of pleasure and haven't bored me for a second. This third (and, it would seem, final) outing isn't as good as the first, but is definitely better than the second, and is highly entertaining for its sprightly 95-minute duration. No, Milla Jovovich can't really act and yes, the characters are dumber than dog-do, but if you're critiquing these aspects, I suspect you're not really getting into the spirit of it. The film is unabashedly stupid, loud and bloody, and in all honesty, sometimes there's nothing wrong with that.
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Welcome to the movie checklist!
This section is an archive listing every movie I've seen from January 1 2005 onwards. Films I have already seen are included and will be marked with a (*), but probably won't be reviewed except under special circumstances. I will be including a rating for each film (in stars, out of 5), and hope to be able to include a brief 1-2 paragraph review of each film, although due to time constraints that won't always be possible.
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