Resident Evil: Afterlife Falls Flat
Posted by Nicole on Monday, 27 September 2010
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The movie Resident Evil: Afterlife received poor reviews upon its debut. The news was not terribly surprising, and it even seems that the studio knew it would be so. The usual previews of the movie never happened. Keeping critics in the dark is rarely used when the studios think they have a blockbuster. This type of secretive activity is usually an indication that the movie isn’t expected to do well out of the starting gate.
Resident Evil: Afterlife is the fourth installment in what has turned out to be a less than inspired movie series. The origin of series is the Resident Evil video game. The video game was renowned as amazing. The story line drew the gamer in and had many so frightened that they removed their garage door windows so they could use the holes to shoot down impending zombie hordes. The idea that corporate America was capable of creating a mass epidemic of zombies was not new. But the Resident Evil video game showed it to be a plausible reality.
The original game’s graphic effects pushed the game console hardware. The virus infected zombified Doberman pinschers were real enough to keep people hiding behind their garage doors for fear of the neighborhood dogs. The movie Resident Evil: Afterlife attempts to regain some semblance of that realism. 3D techniques have been added to the movie. Critics claim this is overboard and that the 3D effects actually hurt the movie.
3D movies have become extremely popular in the past year. That is, of course, until they weren’t anymore. Movie goers would gladly close up the garage door and drive out to a cinema to see a 3D movie. They would even pay the extra $5 or $10 for the pleasure of seeing what video imaging can do. It didn’t take long for the additional price and those little glasses to lose their shiny newness. Movie goers are back to staying in with the garage door closed and renting inexpensive movies on Redbox or Netflix. What is a movie studio to do?
Well, the critics aren’t saying what they should do. They are, however, holding up Resident Evil: Afterlife as an example of what they probably should not do. Critics and viewers are tired of loud movies that attempt to distract them from the lack of plot with a lot of flashy tricks. The movie studios will have to do better than that if they want viewers to give up their sweatpants for paper glasses.