Resident Evil: Extinction

I know it's not one of the bad dollar store movies that I promised to review (ill do one of those next week) but I thought I'd review it.

Let me start by saying that I was never a big fan of the Resident Evil games. The first time I played the first game, it was a rental, and there wasn't a book explaining how to play the game.

Due to some wonkiness in the control scheme, and some necessary button knowledge that I was lacking, I played the game very poorly. It was clumsy (or i was), I died a lot, and I only played it for like 45 mins or so.

After some instruction (and many months later i might add) I managed to get better at the game.

I'm still not a huge fan though.

The movies, on the other hand, I love!!

First and foremost, the all star one of my list girls, the one, the only Milla Jovovich. As in The Fifth Element, she plays one bad ass bitch.

She's on a one woman crusade to save the world.

Well, sorta.

I'm not going to delve into the first two movies in this review. I may do them at a later date, but that's a matter for another day.

So.

This being the 3rd installment of the series, one is prepared for a bad experience. 3rd movies are notoriously bad, no matter what the first two have held (notable exceptions include indiana jones and the last crusade and die hard with a vengence). Sadly, this movie didn't quite live up to my expectations.

True, my expections are often unusually high. Especially for movies.

It wasn't horrible, just not what I wanted. The storyline is ok, and the action sequences are great, but everything seems to pull up just a little short. Milla, of course, kicks major ass. She always does.

Most of the other characters, however, are not very well played. The only other name from the main credits that I recognized was Ali Larter, and I don't even know (or care) enough about her to be able to name anything else she's ever done.

As a fan of the 1st two movies, I liked this one. There a couple of plot holes that maybe only I would see, but in the grand scheme of the movie, they're pretty minor. Nothing that makes you lose interest, mind, but things that kinda bug me.

If you saw and liked the precursors to this flick, I'd recommend it, for the action scenes if nothing else. If you haven't them, maybe now's the time to rent them all and have a zombie-fest day (take note andie).

In other news, you may notice a new button on the right hand side of my blog. For no reason at all (other than it was on the blogger log in page) I thought I'd add the option of calling me.

Yeah, that's right.

Just click on the button, put in your number (you can keep it private) and then your phone rings. Pick it up, and it will dial myphone. It's pretty cool, and I've already tested it. So, if you suddenly feel the need, now you can talk to me.

As if.

If you do decide to call, please don't call between the hours of 9am and 6pm Pacific Time, as I'll be at work. The exception of course being Friday and Saturday, as those are my days off. Any other time, night or day is fair game.

Buenos con queso,

T.