Resident Evil: Retribution, is the fifth installment of the series. It certainly is action oriented film and it does it’s job in entertaining you with it. But what it’s not known for is for the plot because there isn’t any. Or at the very least…it’s so simple that no one would have notice it was there among the action. In short, the plot in this film does nothing to add to the story of the series.
Which is why it raises some questions. I hope they’ll be answered in the next and final film. But it’s very unlikely that it will happen. The films aren’t known for it’s story. Just for the action, awesome zombies kills, the video game reference and how the world changes. If you haven’t seen the film yet, don’t continue to read this. This contains spoilers!
The Questions:
1. What happen to Kmart, Chris and Claire? They were last seen standing behind Alice on the ship, in Resident Evil: Afterlife. But in this film they just disappear. Someone mention that they were capture by Umbrella but I don’t see the point of that. The only people with weapons where Alice, Chris and Claire. The rest of the people on board where completely defenseless and Umbrella soldiers just came down on them killing and capturing some. If the Red Queen goal was to destroy humanity what would she gain by taking in the survivors? Did she want their DNA to make more clones and then put them in the simulations? Turn them into test subjects?
2. If Umbrella took them were would they have gone? I figure they would have been taken to the same place as Alice. But they weren’t. So why was Alice bought to that testing simulation facility?
3. How and why did they capture Jill and turn her into their personal slave?
4. How did the Red Queen become the main villain in this film? Red Queen was originally destroy in the first film and she was doing what was necessary to contain the virus to prevent further deaths. But in Resident Evil: Retribution, this Red Queen creates simulated outbreaks that kill hundreds of people (no matter if they are clones) per day for barely any reason and wants to wipe out all human life on Earth.
5. The Red Queen’s artificial intelligence is lacking some serious logic. There’s nothing for the Red Queen to gain by destroying humanity, nor the world. Why bother having human guards and workers? Why go through all the effort to get Alice? Why would she order Jill to interrogate Alice, asking her who she’s working for and whatnot?
6. If they had so many clones of people why couldn’t the Red Queen implant memories of them being her “soldiers” or something? Heck, if Wesker knew about the place why couldn’t he had made it a mission to take over the facility? To create super human clones base on Alice’s blood or something? That way the fight for humanity against zombies and whatnot would have a better chance in winning.
7. Wesker in Resident Evil: Afterlife is constantly battling the virus for control of his body, something he believes could be pacified by fresh human DNA. His plan was to eat Alice because she was the only person to bond at a cellular level with the T-virus and successfully retain control. But the question is, is he still suffering from that issue in Resident Evil: Retribution? How is he managing it? If not, how did he solve the problem?
Remember this film begin where the other film ended. It’s technically not a long time since Alice and Wesker last confronted each other. So, it’s a little hard to believe that he would do a 360 and change his goal all of a sudden.
8. How did Wesker manage to establish a base at the White House in such a short time? Also becoming in charge of it?
9. Where were the other characters up to? Such as Leon, Ada, Barry and so on. How did they meet each other? What were they doing before joining together to fight for humanity’s survival?
It would have probably help with their character development, or at least make it easier to introduce them…if the director gave hints on their whereabouts throughout the films. For example, why not have Alice at some point read a report written by someone name Ada or Leon (when she was tracking down Umbrella hideouts)? It would have hinted what they were up too and stuff. If the director didn’t want to spend too much time doing that. They could have shown her picking it up, her eyes reading it and then dropping in on a table. The camera could have zoomed in and if viewers paused that moment, they would have been amazed at what it said. That would have only taken a few seconds to do.
 DamnBlackHeart · Mon Sep 24, 2012 @ 01:14am · 0 Comments |
