Might have won me over but absolutely no story-line or plot, yet effective.

Wishing & hoping for a sci-fi thrill, I was surprisingly shocked that this film was actually just a string of discombobulated scenes that didn't seem to have much direction. Someone said it best when they described the film as "Battlefield Earth" marries "The Matrix" and then has an affair with "Ultra Violet" & after a bit of philandering around, the end result is the bastard child we now can call Resident Evil:Afterlife. How on "God's green earth" did Paul Anderson talk Milla Jovovich into playing another one of these roles is beyond me. Don't get me wrong, I think she's the hottest thing ever to hit the big screen, but this RE kills any other chance. Paul seems to have a disconnect with reality and short and long term memory loss when it comes to the direction of this film. There seems to be absolutely no continuity to the story-line & really doesn't explain anything more about the evil beguiled Umbrella corporation. We have to consider that the only reason we get hooked up in Los Angeles is to get back into the underground facility & see those sorry souls get slowly taken out by zombies. I only wonder what it would have been like to see the 3D version of this in theaters because of the special effect overuse of Deus-ex-machina were a bit engaging at times, but fails to carry the film anywhere but back down on the cutting room floor. The use of flashbacks made a effect, but didn't add a bit to the continuity of the storyline. There were scenes that almost made me want to hurl because of the ridiculous stupidity of it. The one that comes to mind is when the heroines are shooting the bad guy with their guns over and over and over. What's up with that? That's a wee bit too boring to be entertaining somehow. We've supposedly got zombie monsters crawling all around so why would anyone spend that much time shooting up a dead zombie? What's even less believable is the never ending supply of ammunition that comes out of those handguns. No one seems to be worried about eating either. Also if it's been 5 years after the end of civilization, then why is the Hollywood sign still burning. The beauties starring in Afterlife are all well groomed and have extremely good hygiene. You would think that all the characters had been through the wars covered in mud and guts. Obviously between takes, the stars get a manicure and pedicure and makeup touch up with hair almost falling naturally right out of a Paul Mitchell commercial. Would or should only a few survivors have designer trimmed beards, haircuts, clothes in perfect pressed and dry cleaned condition? Amazingly the small aircraft seems to have an endless supply of fuel. As far as Arcadia, the supposedly save house ship, where in the world are they hiding the somewhat more that 15000 souls? Certainly not on the deck of the ship? What seems to me to be the most preposterous thing of all is the comical creature with the large hammer knocking down a metal door. You mustn't miss this. Let's swim underwater, whilst holding our breath for 20 minutes to an armory. Luckily, for our flexible & determined characters who seem to be quite confident in any unplanned endeavor, have the opportunity to stumble across more weapons & ammunition that miraculously are stored together in the same room. Looking up we find a totally ridiculous security breach where the giant air conditioned unit leads us straight up to the roof of the building. That's the magic of this movie group, make it up as we go along.Read full review