{"id":3699,"date":"2012-11-22T18:34:42","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T00:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=3699"},"modified":"2017-12-13T21:18:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T03:18:57","slug":"resident-evil-retribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=3699","title":{"rendered":"Resident Evil: Retribution"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I haven’t reviewed anything in like a month, which would be embarrassing enough in any event, but is possibly more embarrassing because of all the movies I’ve seen over that period. So, I guess it’s time to catch up?<\/p>\n

The first thing I saw was in the dollar theater, since (for some inexplicable reason) the fifth Resident Evil movie<\/a> did not stay in theaters for even a month. It’s almost like people think that series is trashy and has no staying power? I don’t buy that for a second, of course. Any movie that takes zombie ass-kicker Milla Jovovich and puts her in a clone-filled series of cityscapes in a secret base under the Arctic ice shelf[1] and makes her fight her way through zombies from half a dozen ethnicities, not to mention a skinless, brain-exposed[2] saber-toothed cat-looking thing and Michelle Rodriguez, can be described as a lot of things, none of them trashy nor lacking in rewatchability.<\/p>\n

And now that all of you are (incorrectly!) backing away from your screens, shaking your heads in mute disbelief, I’ll go ahead and cut short the review, since it’s not like I’ll be able to add anything else convincing. But I should mention there are strong hints that the next sequel will also be the last[3]. I should also mention, in fairness to equal time, that the series has a hard time deciding how doomed humanity is at any given moment in the sequence of events. I mention this latter because it’s really the only major plot hole in an otherwise tightly plotted- …oh come on! Fine, I’m done.<\/p>\n

Sheesh.<\/p>\n

[1] I mean, maybe it was the Antarctic? But as I saw no giant flying zombie penguins… no, wait, those are in the Arctic circle, aren’t they<\/a>? I’m so confused.
\n[2] Or maybe those are radar pods?
\n[3] To be fair, the film was in the can long before Star wars Episode VII was announced, so they may change their minds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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