Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)

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... bands of nomads, zombies are everywhere and the desert has re-taken most cities as the Earth slowly dies.

Our hero is an amnesiac mega-hottie with super powers called Alice (Milla Jovovich). Ah, amnesia. Video games love amnesia even more than soap operas. Anyway, she's got her memory back now and thanks to the Umbrella (ella...ella) Corporation bonding her blood with the T-Virus, she now has all of Keanu Reeves' best moves. On the run from her malevolent masters, she meets and reluctantly teams up with some old companions who are shepherding a group of survivors through the desert in hopes of finding some place zombie free.

Look, I never said it wasn't silly. There's amnesia, clones, genetically engineered super soldiers, zombies and high-octane kung fu. Shakespeare it ain't. And during some of the battles scenes, you might feel like you're watching somebody play their Xbox 360. However, Jovovich proves her chops as an ass-kicking heroine once again and plays it straight as an arrow. The rest of the cast, including Oded Fehr (of Mummy fame), Ali Larter and Mike Epps are all excellent here, especially Fehr's Carlos Oliveria who returns from second film. His final scene is probably the highlight of the entire series.

If you enjoyed either of the previous two films, you'll find more of the same to dig into here. If you hated them, very little has changed and you're probably just as well off skipping this installment. But if you're looking for slick CGI effects, some highly stylized zombie ultra violence with hot chicks doing high kicks in mini-skirts, explosions every 45 seconds and some interesting science fiction ideas littered among the corpses, Resident Evil: Extinction is as good as it gets. It takes itself just seriously enough to be cool, but not so much that it gets bogged down in reality.

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