Resident Evil: Retribution

"Evil goes global."

2012 1h 35m EN

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The Umbrella Corporation’s deadly T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of the flesh eating Undead. The human race’s last and only hope, Alice, 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. Without a safe haven, Alice continues to hunt those responsible for the outbreak; a chase that takes her from Tokyo to New York, Washington, D.C. and Moscow, culminating in a mind-blowing revelation that will force her to rethink everything that she once thought to be true. Aided by new found 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.

“Evil goes global.”

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Cast

Milla Jovovich
Alice
Sienna Guillory
Jill Valentine
Michelle Rodriguez
Rain
Aryana Engineer
Becky
Li Bingbing
Ada Wong
Boris Kodjoe
Luther West
Johann Urb
Leon S. Kennedy
Robin Kasyanov
Sergei

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Paul W. S. Anderson
Writers: Paul W. S. Anderson
Languages: English
Countries: Canada, Germany, United States of America

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MONEY

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Mid-budget at $65M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.

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MONEY

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Made its money back 3.7× over at the box office.

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3 / 8

ERA

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Released 14 years ago.

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4 / 8

WORLD

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International production across 3 countries: Canada, Germany, United States of America.

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5 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Resident Evil Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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CAST

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363+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Paul W. S. Anderson, shot by Glen MacPherson. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Tom Hajdu. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Paul W. S. Anderson directs. Glen MacPherson behind the camera. Tom Hajdu scores. Niven Howie cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in Canada, Germany, United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Mid-budget at $65M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.
2Made its money back 3.7× over at the box office.
3Released 14 years ago.
4International production across 3 countries: Canada, Germany, United States of America.
5Part of the "Resident Evil Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
6363+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
7Directed by Paul W. S. Anderson, shot by Glen MacPherson. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
8Original score by Tom Hajdu. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
9Editor Niven Howie shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
10Milla Jovovich and Sienna Guillory and Michelle Rodriguez carry the top of the cast.
11Marketing tagline: "Evil goes global.".
12IMDB entry: tt1855325 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
13Classified under 13 themes, including "dystopia", "mutant", "sequel", "conspiracy".
14Released under 24 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Glen MacPherson
Original score: Tom Hajdu
Editing: Niven Howie
Production design: Kevin Phipps
Costume design: Wendy Partridge
Makeup / hair: Patricia Medina
VFX supervisor: Marc Jouveneau
Sound: Mark Zsifkovits
Stunt coordinator: Brett Chan
Runtime: 95 min · 1h 35m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $65,000,000
Box office: $240,159,255
Return: 369% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)

Part of

Resident Evil Collection

Loosely based upon the Capcom video games of the same name, the Resident Evil film series follows the protagonist Alice, a character created for the films. The Umbrella Corporation acts as the main antagonist, a bio-engineering pharmaceutical company responsible for formulating the T-virus, which results in a zombie infection outbreak.

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Dark Jedi2013-02-03
★ 7/10
This movie is the 5th instalment in the Resident Evil series. Why would you want to watch this movie? Why would you want to watch any Resident Evil movie come to think about? Good acting…nope. Intelligent and intriguing plot…absolutely not. Zombies…yep. Action…most definitely yes! Anything else…well if you’re member of the younger part of the average male population you probably watch it for Milla Jovovich as well. Now that we have established the baseline for the movie, does this movie deliver? The answer to that is, without a doubt, YES! This film delivered exactly what I expected of it. As I mentioned it is the 5th movie in the series and the entire series is sprung from a video game in the first place so it should really be no surprise that the film is one long video game action sequence sporadically interrupted with some dialog. Yet a lot of people seems to expect something else and judges the movie by those expectations. I think those really low rating are quite unfair. The movie does indeed deliver what I think you should expect. A lot of the action scenes are marvellous. The slow motion scenes are well done and enjoyable unlike some movies where they are just annoying. The zombies and other monsters are good. And yes, I confess that, although I’m hardly among the younger part f the mail audience anymore I do like watching Milla Jovovich jumping around in the scenes in those ridiculous skin tight suits. If I should complain about anything it would be that I sat through half the movie being annoyed that nobody would get the, painfully obvious, idea to rip that red mind control gizmo off Jill’s chest. When it was finally done in the end it was like “did you really have to take that long to get that idea into your head you dumb bastards”. I cannot really give the movie a top rating since it does lack much of a story after all but I certainly think it is worth 7 out of 10 stars. I enjoyed myself a lot while watching it. The ending is the usual video-game-movie cliff-hanger and I really hope they make another sequel now when Alice got her powers back. That she lost those was one of the big downers for me in one of the previous movies in the franchise.
JPV8522020-11-20
★ 3/10
Watching it again after 8 years, my feelings about this installment remains the same. Guess I found it easier to watch after revisiting the franchise but still think the plot was weak, even by the standards of the series, and while I know it’s based on a video game, really wish the movie didn’t feel like one, even more so than the previous installments. Still like Jovovich in the role of Alice, in fact, and take this for what you will, is the strongest actor of the ensemble with Guillory turning in an especially awful performance (at least under the Umbrella Corp’s influence). Easily this is the weakest entry. 1.5/5
Andre Gonzales2023-08-15
★ 6/10
Alice is going through an alternate world. When she finally snaps out of it, she finds herself trapped in and underworld city.