Directed by Russell Mulcahy
Milla Jovovich is back in the third Resident Evil film based on the famous game franchise. In the opening scene, Alice (Jovovich) awakes to find herself naked and tastefully draped in a sheet. It is not long before she is dressed in a figure-clinging red dress and faced with a series of challenges in some sort of monitored scientific experiment in which she dies a thousand times. Well, her clone does anyway. The real Alice is in the outside world, the one where a virus is wiping out all the people and making them into unthinking zombies with very bad skin conditions.
Alice doesn’t take things as seriously as she used but she is still pretty lethal when dealing with things (and people) that get in the way of her survival. It’s really annoying how the undead can be killed time and time again and it’s depressing to know that the major powerbrokers are all males. Fortunately she’s more than a match for everything they can throw at her and the very fit Jovovich takes credit for doing almost all her own stunts. Who would have thought that stockings and suspenders would be a post-apocalyptic fashion statement!
Filmed in the deserts of Mexico by Russell Mulcahy – who was responsible for Highlander, Razorback and heaps of video clips for AC/DC, Queen and Duran Duran – the film has a distinctly Mad Max feel to it. Breaking with tradition, this film was shot during daylight hours instead of using the traditional nighttime setting. It’s good fun with both horror and action adrenaline rushes coming fast and furiously as Jovovich shows off her moves. There’s also touched of humour thrown in – ‘dying for a smoke’ will never been seen in the same light after watching this film.
