Resident Evil: Extinction

"Take it from Milla: Afterbirths May be gross,
But They're Nothin' Compared To Dismembered Zombie" babble.com

(2007)
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I have not really seen the other two Resident Evil movies. I have on the other hand played quite a few of the Resident Evil games. That is all you really need to know. Lots of zombie experiments gone wrong, and broken wires hanging down from the ceiling going kzzt kzzt.

THE END OF THE WORLD HAS COME! Pretty visual involving the entire earth being taken over by redness meaning zombies, then blackness meaning more zombies and finally the water dries up everywhere meaning uhh well I don't really know.
Further research tells us that this guy

Mommy, is that man a zombie too?? No honey...no.

On an allthingszombie forum post thinks its due to lack of plant life and therefore sandstorms.
I don't know, and frankly I don't care. But that guys avatar was totally worth the tangent.

Anyways! Some intelligence research group, is trying to find the antidote to curing, or at least subduing the zombie majority. They are cunningly situated in an underground base in the middle of sandy Nevada.
Milla Jovovich, in her tradmark little red dress goes through weird obstacle course and then dies. Scientist man needs to take her blood and then her body gets dropped into a pit full of a other Milla Jovovichs. Hey, a movie with more than one Milla Jovovich is never a bad idea. We figure out later that the antidote lies in her blood and that he has just been using clones of her. Again, a little sketchy on the details, but who cares! We want zombies!
The real Milla or 'Alice', looking very Indiana Jones meets Neo with a stylish haircut, gets trapped by some fun loving zombies and she kicks some zombie pit bull ass (also know as doggys with pretty make up) and kills everyone with some sweet moves. If there is only one reason to watch this movie, it is the very awesome fight coreography they have CGed into Milla.
Pan in on Random band of scraglers, in a schoolbus, a tank, an ambulance, a manicurists truck, and a jeep. Transformers anyone? Most of these characters live too short to bother being mentioned. But for you curious types out there, there is Carlos, Milla's obvious love interest, some blond chicks, the token black couple, Sammy the techie guy and the childen "of the future". These people are clearly having trouble surviving and get attacked by zombies as they make pitstops.
Milla in the desert too, on her moto, finds some dead guys diary in a gas-station. In it he writes of his dreams of going to Alaska as he thinks it hasn't been contaminated yet. Alaska, everyone wants to go there these days! This dead guy, the Simpsons, this italian dude.
We then find out she has superpowers. Unorthodox scientist dude finds out too and plots to track her down.
Evil bulgy eyed bloodthirsty zombie crows flock in hundreds over the nomads. Milla saves them with her force field to give way to the most awesome scene in the whole movie. The birds will BURN, burn I say. And so they did, until the sky was just one big fire cloud. Pretty fire cloud. Its so shiny!(See Image 3)
Jovovich tell the wanderers about Alaska, and they all mindlessly go Yay Alaska. At which point the movie basically ends, save a fight scene in Las Vegas and very short battle with an "invincible" scientist zombie. Ah, Russel Mulcahy, did you really have to cut that much out of your movie? Though the ending screams sequel with multiple Milla's, we aren't really that interested, we've already seen how one can CG many Milla's in one room.

So this whole movie takes place in Nevada. In the desert. Mad Max anyone?
Though a lot of it was bland conversation:
Ex:
Drifters enter very sanded down Las Vegas
Token Black guy: Ahh, Las Vegas. I dropped 2 G here once.
Token Cowboy: 2G, really? *chuckle*
I did get very scared during the movie, because there was a shitload of slow room pans with zombies popping out from behind. Zombies are strange creatures if you think about it, they have zero tact when it comes to fighting, but when it comes to sneaking up behind you, they know how to freak you out everytime!
The one confusing element about the movie was that the number of people that seemed to get hit or bitten by zombies, didn't match up to those that resultantly ended up turning into zombies.
It was also amusing to note how little lines Jovovich had, as her acting skills, besides her facial expressions, I assume, from the movies I've seen her in, are probably very limited in English. But nobody cares, as long as she can look good kicking some good old fashioned zombie butt.
All in all too short, but worth renting for some Big BaDABooms.