Resident Evil 5 Retribution (Sep 2012)

Genre:

Action/Science-Fiction

Directed by:

Paul W.S. Anderson

Starring:

Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Wentworth Miller, Sienna Guillory

Release date:

Fri 14, Sep 2012

     Resident Evil: Retribution is a 2012 science fiction thriller film written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson. It is the fifth installment in the Resident Evil film series, based on the Capcom survival horror video game series Resident Evil, and the third to be directed by Anderson. It is a direct follow-on from the previous film Resident Evil: Afterlife. The film has many returning actors and characters, along with new characters from the video game not featured in the previous films. Filming took place from October to December 2011 for a scheduled release date of September 14, 2012. The film was released in 3D and IMAX 3D, as well as 2D.

     The film sees Alice (Milla Jovovich) captured by the Umbrella Corporation, forcing her to make her escape from an underwater base in the Arctic Circle, used for testing the T-virus. Many characters from previous films return, including Rain Ocampo (Michelle Rodriguez), Jill Valentine (Sienna Guillory), Carlos Olivera (Oded Fehr), Luther West (Boris Kodjoe), James "One" Shade (Colin Salmon), and Albert Wesker (Shawn Roberts). Three new characters from the games appear for the first time in the franchise: Ada Wong (Li Bingbing), Leon S. Kennedy (Johann Urb), and Barry Burton (Kevin Durand).

Plot

     Following where the previous film left off, Alice (Milla Jovovich) and the others on Umbrella Corporation's Arcadia freighter are being attacked by a fleet of airships led by Alice's former ally Jill Valentine (Sienna Guillory), who is being mind-controlled by Umbrella through a red scarab device attached to her chest. Alice shoots one down and it crashes on to the ship, knocking her in to the water, unconscious.

     Taking place in what seems to be an alternate reality, Alice is living as a suburban housewife with her husband Carlos Olivera (Oded Fehr) and deaf daughter Becky (Aryana Engineer), although this peace is disrupted when zombies attack and kill Carlos. Alice and Becky escape to the streets and are rescued by Rain Ocampo (Michelle Rodriguez), who lets them board her car. As the three escape, they are hit by a truck, knocking Rain unconscious while Alice and Becky escape; Alice runs and is attacked by a zombified Carlos.

     Suddenly, the real Alice awakens in Umbrella, after being captured after the earlier fight in Arcadia. Jill appears and interrogates Alice, demanding who Alice is working for, while Alice begs Jill to remember her true identity. The power unexpectedly goes out, and when the power comes back on, Alice has escaped from her cell. Jill orders for a laser grid to chase Alice down the end of the hallway and through a door, which leads to the Toyko city landscape, identical to the previous film's opening scene, where she battles a horde of zombies that include Japan's patient zero (Mika Nakashima), before fleeing through a door that leads back to Umbrella headquarters. Finding many dead Umbrella operatives, Alice encounters Ada Wong (Li Bingbing), who she recognizes as the associate of her enemy, Albert Wesker (Shawn Roberts), who has survived the events of the previous film. Ada explains that she and Wesker no longer work for Umbrella. Wesker, who seems to have redeemed himself, reveals to Alice that he shut off the power, and plans to rescue her from the Umbrella facility, which is being controlled by the supercomputer Red Queen (Megan Charpentier and Ave Merson-O'Brian), in order to save what's left of mankind. Ada also reveals that the facility is underwater underneath ice, and that it serves as a testing ground for experiments, hence the formation of numerous replicas of cities, as well as numerous clones.

     Additionally, Wesker has organized a team of freelance operatives to infiltrate the facility and help Alice and Ada escape, including Leon S. Kennedy (Johann Urb), Barry Burton (Kevin Durand), and Luther West (Boris Kodjoe), Alice's ally from the previous film.

     Leon's team plants explosives near the entrance of the facility that would detonate in two hours and trap anybody still inside. The group plans to meet up with Alice and Ada in the simulated Raccoon City suburbia, identical to the one in Alice's flashback. Alice and Ada walk through the simulate of New York City, where they defeat two Axemen. The two manage to enter the Moscow simulation where they could meet up with Leon, however they escape to the Raccoon City suburbia after an encounter with more intelligent zombies and heavy artillery. In the suburban arena, the two find Becky, as well as Jill and her mercenaries, consisting of clones of Alice's deceased allies: Rain, Carlos and James "One" Shade (Colin Salmon). A shoot-out occurs, resulting in Ada being captured and Alice and Becky escaping. Alice and Becky run into the "good" Rain (the one encountered in Alice's dream), and head back to Moscow, where they meet up with Leon's team. The group escapes the intelligent zombies, and reach an elevator that leads them to submarines that could help them escape, although it shuts off. An enormous licker appears, with it capturing Becky and killing "good" Rain. The group pursue the Licker, where they encounter Jill's group; another battle ensues, in which Barry is killed in the process. Alice manages to rescue Becky, and rejoins Leon and Luther as the detonation occurs. The explosion results in the flooding of the facility and the deaths of One and Carlos.

     The group reaches the surface, however they are met with a submarine, where Jill, "bad" Rain and a captured Ada emerge from. With orders from the Red Queen to kill Alice, Jill battles Alice while Rain, injecting herself with the Las Plagas parasite that gives her strength and apparent invincibility, knocks out Ada, fights Leon and Luther, killing Luther. Alice manages to remove and destroy the scarab device from Jill, returning her back to normal. Alice joins Leon in fighting Rain; she notices there are zombies from the facility swimming up to the ice. She shoots the ice where Rain is standing and she falls in the water, leaving her fate to the zombies. Alice, Ada, Becky, Leon and Jill, who is no longer being controlled by the Red Queen, travel to Wesker's base: the heavily barricaded and guarded White House. Wesker injects her with the T-virus in order to return her former superhuman powers, in order to enact his plan and that she is responsible for saving the remaining humans from extinction once and for all.

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References.

External links:

"Main Page." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 13 Sept. 2012. Web. 13 Sept. 2012. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>.

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