Evolution of Zombies
Finally have a chance to watch Resident Evil: Extinction. I have always found the Resident Evil series to be entertaining and usually a good B movie, this last of the series is no exception. (they will probably make a fourth eventually, but until then~) It’s a refreshing take to the genre because this time most of the film take places in board daylight, in the dessert – you know, a setting more appropriated for the mummy! Zombies in the traditional popular culture sense just don’t go out during the day, but the “zombies” here does so this is interesting. Although they are still the slow moving brainless type, however later in the film there’s an “enhance” version that are very agile and vicious, a so-called super-zombies. Another regular appearance are zombie creatures, it was usually the zombie dogs all through the series, but this time there’s the zombie crows take it to the sky in mass number! That’s nightmare in the making!
Other than these variations, the film is pretty much standard zombie affairs with a group of human, got killed one after another, with someone got infected but try to hide it and become a hazard within the group. But there’s a shocking ending in the end that will change the direction of the entire series if there’s more sequels – and it remind me of series finale of Buffy! but instead of vampire slayers everywhere were “activated” so that the lone heroine’s power is shared and gained allies, we got the lone heroine here cloned and it implied that she will “activated” her clones one by one to form an army to battle the evil corporation and the entire undead population of the world. I found the parallel situation quite interesting. Not to mention what a game-changing plot it is. And who doesn’t want to see hundreds of Milla Jovovich kick some zombie ass? If only they make another sequel to show us that~ It is curious how both Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Resident Evil series put in such a game-changing plot at the very end of their run? as if it’s there to tease the audience about what will happen next.
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