Resident Evil: Retribution 3D Movie Review- Nuffnang Premiere Screening

This is the 3^rd Nuffnang Premiere Screening I attended and I must say it’s getting better & better, but still a little bit off from giving me the feeling of impress. 

Anyway back to the focus of this entry, review for Resident Evil: Retribution 3D. Here’s how the story goes: As continuation of Afterlife, the Umbrella Corporation’s deadly T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into flesh eating Undead. The human race’s last and only hope, Alice (Milla Jovovich), awakens in the heart of Umbrella's most clandestine operations facility and unveils more of her mysterious past as she delves further into the complex. Aided by newfound allies and familiar friends, Alice must fight to survive long enough to escape a hostile world on the brink of oblivion. The countdown has begun.

As one of the wildly successful film franchise adaptation of Japanese popular video game series, the storyline for Resident Evil: Retribution is just nice. The movie start with a downright pornographically symmetrical slow motion battle played out in reverse, leading back to the cliff-hanger ending of previous entry Afterlife which is pretty interesting. The context-free recap of previous series speaking directly to the camera from a multi-video grid screen by clone Alice later on pretty much explain the whole picture of this series,  which is very helpful for those who didn’t watch the previous episodes.  

Ada Wong (Li Bingbing) & Alice (Milla Jovovich)

In general the movie is not bad at all, the creature effects and action choreography is great, a few of the early scene with the boom and shriek sound+ sudden zombie appearance really give me an adrenaline rush and pulse raise. However, the 3D effect is kinda disappointing, with applies 3D in the movie I expect improvement in both texturing agent and stunt effect, but in the end there were only a few scene which give actual feel of 3D, and surprisingly some of the scenes were very blur, wounder if it’s due to the movie itself or it’s time for cathay cineplex e@curve to upgrade their hardware. 

Overall this is a rather entertaining action horror movie which serves well as a refresher course before the grand climax, recalling all the previous series while setting up the necessary pieces for the grand finale. Looking forward to the ultimate climax ahead.                

Rating: 6.3/10

Tics for the show.

*A little something that I would like to share to give credit to cathay cineplex e@curve: After the movie as I was heading to the parking lot I found that I lost my parking chip, so anxiously I rush back to the hall to search for it, and instead of just send in 1 or 2 stuff as assistant, everyone in the hall offers their help, and finally a young lady which probably from the PR department of cathay retrieve my chip. Feel so grateful about it, too bad I was in a hurry and didn’t manage to catch her name,  still I remember this nice young lady, think I’ll buy her a drink or something next time I met her.. ^_^