Resident Evil: Extinction
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| Resident Evil: Extinction | |
|---|---|
 The Film's US Poster | |
| Directed by | Russell Mulcahy |
| Produced by | Paul W. S. Anderson Jeremy Bolt Robert Kulzer Bernd Eichinger Samuel Hadida |
| Written by | Paul W. S. Anderson |
| Starring | Milla Jovovich Ali Larter Oded Fehr Mike Epps Iain Glen Ashanti Douglas Chris Egan Spencer Locke |
| Music by | Charlie Clouser |
| Cinematography | David Johnson |
| Editing by | Niven Howie |
| Distributed by | Sony |
| Release date(s) | September 21, 2007 |
| Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | USA |
| Budget | $45,000,000 |
| Preceded by | Resident Evil: Apocalypse |
| Followed by | Resident Evil: Afterlife |
| IMDb • Allmovie | |
Experimentation...Evolution...Extinction
Resident Evil: Extinction is a 2007 science fiction action horror film. It is the third installment in the series of film adaptations based on the Capcom survival horror series Resident Evil. The film follows the amnesiac heroine Alice, along with a group of survivors from Raccoon City, as they attempt to travel across the Mojave desert wilderness to Alaska and escape a zombie apocalypse. The film was directed by Russell Mulcahy.
The film was released in the United States on September 21, 2007 and was commercially successful, grossing $147,717,833 worldwide, however, it received many negative reviews from critics. The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray in North America on January 1, 2008.
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[edit] Synopsis
Upon emerging from her hideout in the Nevada desert, Alice (Milla Jovovich) is quickly joined by old friends Carlos Oliveira (Oded Fehr) and L.J. (Mike Epps). They also meet up with a whole batch of other survivors, including no-nonsense tough girl Claire Redfield (Ali Larter), K-Mart girl (Spencer Lock), and a fire-powered Florence Nightingale named Nurse Betty (Ashanti). Now instilled with super-human strength, senses, and dexterity as a result of the biogenetic experimentation conducted on her by the Umbrella Corporation, Alice and the rest of the survivors set out to eliminate a virus that threatens to turn every living human undead, and ensure that the mysterious organization pays the price for their horrific crimes against humanity.
[edit] Plot Details
Alice is on the run across the deserts that now cover the Western part of the United States. After facing a group of criminals that had managed to trap her using a fake radio emergency call, she finds a journal which details a route to Alaska; the state, being "isolated" as the journal says, might be virus-free.
Dr. Isaacs has been trying to reproduce Alice's powers by creating clones of her, but none of them survives the tasks they are faced with (a mock-up of the Hive, the mansion and Raccoon General Hospital). He concludes to Wesker and the other Umbrella board members that he needs the original Project Alice in order to obtain her blood and hopefully find a mass cure for the virus. Wesker and the Umbrella board members thus made this together with the capture of Alice among their highest priorities. Using her clones' blood as a basis for the cure, he plans to domesticate the zombies with his newly-developed serum harvested from Alice's blood. Initially, the enhanced zombie displayed signs of heightened intelligence, increased memory power and gentleness, but soon grew to be stronger, faster, and more vicious . Isaacs uses this to his advantage by secretly creating a bigger group of these 'super zombies', defying Wesker's orders.
At the same time, Carlos Olivera and L.J. have joined a convoy of survivors(consisting also of key members like K-Mart, Otto, Mikey, Chase and Betty) led by Claire Redfield, moving in search of supplies. While searching a motel, L.J. is bitten but doesn't tell anybody. At morning, the convoy is waken up by thousands of infected, hungry crows. When everything seems lost, Alice arrives and using her telekinesis manages to save the convoy. Despite her efforts, Nurse Betty, Otto and five others died in the attack.
She tells the group about her plan to Alaska, and they decide to follow it by popular vote. However, before trying the long journey they need supplies, and they decide to search the nearby Las Vegas, now in ruins. Meanwhile, Dr. Isaacs has been looking for Alice, hoping her DNA could be the source for a cure; he finally manages to track her by satellite, but only by a 62% confirmation. He later reports this to Wesker, who instead refuses to have Isaacs recapture Alice until the satellite confirmation hits 100%, but Isaacs is later revealed to have recorded Wesker's speech and edited it to make it appear as if Wesker ordered his second-in-command, Captain Alexander Slater, to send a force to capture Alice. Isaacs then sends a group of his newly created super-zombies to Las Vegas, both to test their ability and capture Alice.
The convoy is attacked by the superzombies, and most of its members are killed; L.J. eventually succumbs to the T-Virus and bites Carlos before being shot dead, Mikey, the convoy's communication expert, was devoured by a band of super-zombies, and Chase, the group's gasoline truck driver, falls from his sniper position in the Paris Las Vegas Eiffel Tower replica while fighting with the super-zombies who managed to locate his position. Dr. Isaacs tries to control Alice via satellite, but she is powerful enough to hack Umbrella's computer network and find out that Isaacs is just a few meters away, on the roof of a nearby building; she attacks the few Umbrella men and kills all of them but Isaacs, who manages to escape by helicopter after being bitten by his own creatures.
The few survivors decide to raid a nearby Umbrella facility, hoping to use their helicopter to fly to Alaska. Inside the underground laboratories, Isaacs tries to save himself by injecting more and more antivirus, but he seems helpless and begins to exhibit signs of mutation as a result of the overdose. His second-in-command, Captain Slater was sent by Wesker to kill him due to his failure and insubordination, but Isaacs proves resistant to gunfire and kills Slater and some nearby guards with his new tentacled hand. He then begins to kill everyone in the base, but he's trapped inside the lower levels by the White Queen, the computer which controls the facility.
The convoy arrives to the facility, only to find out that its perimeter is surrounded by thousands of undead. Carlos, believing his infection to be beyond any cure, chooses to sacrifice himself in order to open a safe path for the rest of the convoy to pass through. He gets into a gasoline truck with some dynamite, drives into the crowd and detonates the explosives. Claire, K-Mart and the remaining surviving convoy members gets into the chopper and flies away to Alaska, leaving the convoy's fate open to viewers. Alice, meanwhile, decides to get her revenge on Umbrella.
When she gets into the labs, she is told by the White Queen(who confirms that the real Alice's blood is the ultimate cure for purging the world of the biohazard) that she has to reach to lower level in order to create a cure. Down there, she finds one of her clones, but before she can examine it, Isaacs, now a Tyrant, attacks her. She stabs him with a knife, and he flees, and is able to instantaneously heal his stab wound; the clone wakes up, seemingly dying in Alice's arms. A battle of telekinetic powers then continues inside the Mansion, and in the replica of the laser corridor from the Hive. Isaacs taunts Alice, saying that he is the "future", with Alice retorting to Isaacs they are both going to die, and the laser cuts him into pieces, but stops just before reaching Alice. Her clone is revealed to have been the one to turn it off.
In Tokyo, Wesker informs the rest of Umbrella that contact with the North American branch has been lost, and decided to control further experimentation from his Japan facility. Using their holographic technology, Alice joins the meeting and informs them that she is after them and "bringing a few of her friends". The film ends as Alice, next to one of her clones, watches hundreds of others awaking, thus leaving open a possible fourth film(tentatively titled Resident Evil: Afterlife), to be set in either Japan or Alaska. What happens after this film is unknown, and even though Alice plans to create a cure with help from the White Queen, she still vows to have revenge over Umbrella.
[edit] Confirmed cast
| Actor/Actress | Role |
|---|---|
| Milla Jovovich | Alice |
| Ali Larter | Claire Redfield |
| Oded Fehr | Carlos Olivera |
| Spencer Locke | K-Mart Girl |
| Iain Glen | Dr. Sam Isaacs/Tyrant |
| Jason O'Mara | Albert Wesker |
| Chris Egan | Mikey |
| Ashanti | Nurse Betty |
| Matthew Marsden | Captain Alexander Slater |
| Jamie Patrick Millar | Evan |
| Rusty Joiner | Eddie |
| Ramón Franco | Runt |
| Geoff Meed | Pockmark |
| John Eric Bentley | Umbrella Executive |
| Linden Ashby | Chase |
| Joe Hursley | Otto |
| Gary Hudson | Umbrella Captain |
| Mike Epps | L.J. |
[edit] Minor roles
| Actor/Actress | Role |
|---|---|
| Valorie Hubbard | Woman |
| Connor McCoy | Small Boy |
| Kirk B.R Woller | Scientist |
| Shane Woodson | Piggy |
| James Tumminia | Lab Technician |
| Debra Marshall | Lab Technician |
[edit] Production
Resident Evil: Extinction was officially announced by Sony Screen Gems on June 13, 2005 months after Apocalypse's release in North America. The producers also openly discussed the possibility of following this sequel with a fourth film. This was later confirmed in the official plot synopsis as revealed by ComingSoon.
On November 7, 2005, Davis Film, Constantin Film and Screen Gems announced their distribution rights worldwide. The film's title was also later changed from Resident Evil: Afterlife to Resident Evil: Extinction with the film's director Russell Mulcahy signing on. Principal photography began in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico in May, 2006 (after being pushed back from November 05 > March 06 > April 06 > May 06) and entered Post-production in late July 2006.
In late June, 2006 Sony released the first 2 production stills.
[edit] Release Information
The following is a list of release dates worldwide. As cited on the official Resident Evil Extinction website, where it shows World Wide Release dates: http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/residentevilextinction/international/
| Release date | Country |
|---|---|
| September 21 2007 | United Kingdom |
| September 21 2007 | Canada |
| September 21 2007 | Republic of Ireland |
| September 28 2007 | Sweden |
| October 3 2007 | France |
| October 4 2007 | Australia |
| October 5 2007 | Italy |
| October 5 2007 | Brazil |
| October 11 2007 | Portugal |
| October 18 2007 | Netherlands |
| October 19 2007 | Poland |
| October 24 2007 | Belgium |
| October 26 2007 | Spain |
| November 2 2007 | Suomi, Mexico |
| November 8 2007 | Argentina |
| November 10 2007 | Central America |
| November 23 2007 | Uruguay |
[edit] Game connections
- Albert Wesker makes an appearance.
- Alice returns to a replicated version of the mansion featured in the first film, direct reference to Code: Veronica.
- The abilities of Alice, such as her speed and strength, are reminiscent of Wesker in the games.
- The third installments marks the first on-screen appearance of Claire Redfield in the Resident Evil movies.
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