This movie totally sucked. It sucked so hard that I completely forgot that I even watched it. Also, Christy and I had seen a number of movies while she was up here. We saw Green Lantern, Despicable Me, Original Sin, Legend of the Boneknapper (the bonus disc from How to Train Your Dragon) and Angel-A. This one just kind of fell through the cracks, despite it being the first movie I watched with New Boyfriend. Hi, again! (Yes, I will probably do a review for Original Sin in the next day or so. I may not post it til Sat, though. I'm still catching up.)
I bought this one to complete my RE collection. I liked the first one, did not care for the second, and thought the third redeemed the series. Based on the final scene from this one, they are not going to let the franchise die any time soon, even though they are serioulsy scraping the bottom of the barrel here.
The movie picks up almost immediately after the third one ends and squanders whatever goodwill that one had garnered. Alice is still a badass and she is trying to make her way back to Arcadia, where the helicopter of survivors from RE3 had headed. She finds only Claire (Ali Larter), living like a wild thing with a metal spider on her chest and no memory. They head down to LA in a prop plane and land on the top of a prison where a tastefully ethnically diverse cast of hardbodies has holed up.
Zombies besiege the gates, of course, but this time the regular shambling menaces have been joined by rejects from other movies. There's a giant burlap-sack-headed creature with a hamer/saw combo that wandered out of Silent Hill and some zombies that apparently were bitten by the vagina-face vampires from Blade II. The survivors have to make it out of the prison and onto a ship, which is revealed to be the fabled Arcadia, in order to solve the metal spider mystery. In the basement of the prison, they find Wentworth Miller (the Prison Break guy) locked in a Hannibal Lector-style cell. My guess is for Crimes Against Acting.
Seriously. In a movie filled with shitty CGI, a microwaved plot, and D-list supporting actors, this guy takes the Extremely Bad Grande Prix.
Avoid at all costs.
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