A dragging plot, useless characters, stupid confused Wesker, an Alice sandwich and all played in SLOW MOTION. Afterlife, you're pitiful! phelous.com / phelous Originally Released: May 4, 2011
What Barry doesn't know is that if he kept the ruby neck tie, instead of finding Resident Evil Afterlife, he would've found the Reset Button. With the Reset Button, he could've restarted the franchise and change it however he pleases. Sadly the button cannot be obtained once Afterlife is discovered.
my question is Were the hell did alice find all the same outfits for her clone army? and the weapons did she loot an Armory does she have a personal tailor in the apocalypse? resident evil logic for ya
Wow... Did Paul W.S. Anderson say to the guy playing Wesker, "You know the Matrix? Just copy Agent Smith in every conceivable way. The way he acts; the way he talks. All of it."
To be fair, voice actor for Wesker in RE5 has very specific voice, I really doubt anyone could replicate that. This actor certainly tries, and to be fair, he isn't terrible considering that he has to deliver nearly unspeakable lines. I thought he kinda looked the part, bit more rounded in face but he sorta resembles Wesker from games. One thing that always bugged me about characters in these movies beside them having nothing to do with ones from games (personality-wise) is that most of them seemed like really bad cosplayers. I swear I've seen cosplayers do better job with costumes then actual movie. Now Wesker, at least he looks like movie character and not bad cosplay.
Because when you want to be a threat... copy Hugo fucking weaving from The Matrix........ a role that does in fact break one of the top 5 silliest sounding roles Hugo weaving has done....and yes that does include Megatron
It's sad how this movie tries to be RE5 in almost every scene. The Wesker battle, Chris on a boat, Las Plagas, Executioner, people inside of pods (remember the scene where Chris finds out Jill isn't in one of them?). They couldn't even get the mind control device right. In the game, that was a tough thing to get off someone's skin, Jill had holes and blood on her chest after it was removed from her. Here it's like "dear, you have a bug on your shirt, shoo."
And on top of that, why would you emulate Resident Evil 5? It's considered (by fans) to be one of the weakest entries in the entire series, and the point where the franchise jumps the shark!
I can see why they would try to mimic RE5, but the execution is so, so poor. I mean, say what you will about RE5 and Wesker's Matrix moves, but at least in the game it was well choreographed and very stylish. In this movie is just looks way too silly and the effects are atrocious.
RE5 is still a good, solid action game, though. RE6 is just a pile of shit, that game is bad at every level. And what's wrong with testosterone and action? Please don't turn this subject into a political thing, criticizing RE5 for the "testosterone"-injected action and naming Jill a feminist icon like that, it kinda makes your argument jump the shark. She is a fierce soldier, a survivor, and they didn't turn her into a villain "just because", it was part of the story, finding Jill is literally the reason Chris goes through everything in that game, he thought his partner had died. Just because she's a strong female character, doesn't mean the game can't have bad things happen to her. If you want an unstoppable female character, stick to the Milla Jovovich films. And Jill got back to being a protagonist in Revelations, by the way.
The characters have always relied on others. Barry helps Jill, Jill helps Chris, Rebecca helps Chris, Jill helps Richard, Rebecca and Billy help each other... that's one of the things that are great in RE; no gender is beyond needing help and asking for it.
I'm sorry for turning this into a political thing by calling Jill a 'feminist icon'. But What's That? "RE5 is still a good, solid action game, though." It's NOT! It's flawed. PAINFULLY FLAWED. It single handedly began a dork age from which the franchise took 8 YEARS to fully recover from, and there are so many problems! I know bad things can happen to Jill (that's why I like her, because she's also vulnerable), but being mind controlled is not one of them! And you think I'm a fan of the Anderson films? I'M NOT! THEY'RE EVEN WORSE! And what's the deal with Chris, Sheva and the gang dropping a mother load of one-liners and action movie cliches? I remember when the dialogue wasn't trying to sound cool and badass! And they turned Chris into a generic action hero, Wesker into a James Bond villain and THE CONTROLS STINK! The reason why i'm calling out RE5 for testosterone and action, is because THAT IS NOT WHAT Resident Evil is about! It's about DISEmpowerment! it's about creating dark atmospheres, nightmarish enemies and giving you little ammo to deal with it! And YOU; STOP RIGHT THERE BEFORE YOU TELL ME 'The series went into action in RE4!' It didn't. Okay? Leon's romp through spain was, despite the change in perspective, STILL a Resident Evil game. Whilst there was plentiful ammo, and more action, there were genuine scares, nightmarish imagery, and the idea of being in a place with people you can't understand hunting you down created a new kind of darkness. A new kind of horror. RE5 goes full on action and pays the price. Actually, why don't we agree to disagree? You can see it as good, and I can see it as a disgrace that 'Nukes the Raccoon City', if you catch my drift. I don't want another comment war.
So Wesker took away Alice's powers, but hasn't it been established that the reason Alice has her powers is due to the T-Virus? So Wesker basically ''cured'' her from the virus then? And wasn't it said in the last movie Umbrella was looking for a way to reverse the virus? So he basically had an anti-virus serum all along. Unless of course Wesker had his scientists create an anti-virus mainly for Alice in case he needed to remove her T-Virus powers, despite the fact they were trying to find out how she bounded with it. Also how was he able to create such a serum for that but not one to combat infected T-Virus zomibes. Unless the scientists used the Alice clones they had as a template to create the power off serum but in that movie they didn't know...oh fuck it the more thought I try to put in the more it hurts.
Wow. I never thought about that until now. Which begs the question, WHY WOULD PAUL W.S. ANDERSON WRITE HER POWERS AWAY IN THIS FILM TO BEGIN WITH?! If he's still gonna have her be this overpowered Mary Sue even without her powers, then why not have her keep her powers?
While it's obvious none of these are Resident Evil movies, they are like an anthology of movies Paul Anderson wanted to make Resident Evil - Cube Apocalypse - a "Living Dead" sequel Extinction - Mad Max/Road Warrior Afterlife - Prison Break and I haven't watched the last one. Any suggestions?
my question is when Alice first landed that plane on the roof and the rotor hit that concrete how did the rotor not get damaged wouldn't that have severely damaged the rotor then the plane would have been screwed
My question about your comment is wouldn’t watching Afterlife damage the logic centres in your brain and wouldn’t that damage make it impossible to ask a good question like yours? 😂
So this entire movie series was based on some Resident Evil fanfiction that people said was really good, some even saying good enough to be a movie, and someone took those compliments seriously?
I’m not if it was in Phelous video (most likely) but something about - Paul Anderson wrote a script - and was shopping it around. That script had the resident evil elements applied to it and the series was born.
How is Paul Anderson not receiving Michel Bay levels of hatred? My god, the man has managed to make brain meltingly stupid movie after brain meltingly stupid movie. I'm guessing his profile may not be as high but still....
KingNazaru The weird thing is that every director looks up to Michael Bay as a great director, even the good ones like Steven Spielberg and James Cameron. James Cameron admits to copying Bay's directing in his later movies. The quality of the stories are not so good, just the directing that's good.
extragirth64 I personally wouldn't consider James Cameron or Steven Spielberg to be that good either, but then again that's just me. I would honestly rather watch Uwe Boll than Paul Anderson films
sebas gutierrez I... hmm. Actually, yeah, I would rather watch House of the Dead. It's far more entertaining, even if for unintended reasons, than the RE film which was just bad. To me RE was just too different from the video game
I thought the first in this series had some merit, as a prequel of what happened in the mansion in the first game Then (hopefully) each sequel could have been proper movie rendition of the games
I think overall these movies REALLY wanted to be The Matrix...the slow motion, Alice basically being a knock-off Neo, and her outfit in Retribution just SCREAMED that it wanted to be The Matrix and not Resident Evil.
When Phelan says "Jill, is that you Jill!?" I always think that he's lost his mind and is actually thinking thats Jill and not an image of her on a box LOL.
I would like to know how the clones suddenly have dark brown hair when the clones established in Extinction clearly have sandy blonde hair? I guess Alice hooked her clones up with hair dye. Also, how does the clones have Alice’s powers when, to my knowledge, they weren’t infected like the original clone Alice? Oof.
I think that Chris's role would have been better if it was Billy Coen. We know Billy was a prisoner... So, this would fit perfectly. But, no. We got inmate Chris. (-_-) And Billy was a military man too! Prisoner, Military man, "not trust worthy".... Did they get Chris and Billy confused?!! Because I seriously think they cast Wentworth to be Chris when they were thinking of Billy. I do like the Executioner part though. I think that was the only real good part of this movie... He used to be my worst nightmare. I actually had NIGHTMARES about him. Until I played RE5... I was chicken for the first 30 minutes, then I killed him... I got over my fear. Now I fear Pyramid Head. XD (But the Executioner didn't belong in this, yeah. Though not as much as the Majini.)
You're so right! It would make way more sense if it was Billy. I don't think they cast Wentworth Miller to play Chris while thinking of Billy, though -- these people don't even know how to work with mainstream characters like Jill and Leon, they probably don't even know who Billy Coen is.
Yeah, it would've made sense to have it be Billy. But then again, he was introduced in Resident Evil Zero and hasn't made much appearances since (aside from the Umbrella Chronicles spinoff). Or perhaps Mr. Anderson was so in love with Resident Evil 5 that he decided to bring in Chris. Since this hellish nightmare of a film series is finally over (Thank God) here's hoping in a reboot that they stay true to the games and have Chris remain the S.T.A.R.S operative (at least in RE1 and Code: Veronica) we all know and love.
I could totally imagine a Resident Evil theme escape room, where you find keys and medalions and so forth. a few cleaver motorised props, like statues that move when you put gems in. could be fun. could sprinkle in some memos and diary notes, some as clues other as just flavor, like the famous turning zombie one everyone remembers.
considering you add some comments for these old reviews when you upload them on youtube,you shouldn't forget to mention in Retribution that Ada's actress was dubbed over by her voice-actress from RE2 and RE4,Sally Cahill.The closest thing that they ever got to a character being like his game counterpart in these movies when you think about it...
Why doesn’t Phelous have more subs?!?! I love his videos, especially all the silent hill and resident evil stuff. But his movie reviews and video games are awesome too
I wish Barry canonly just spoke as stilted as his 1990s counterpart I knew this English teacher in my middle school who i swore spoke like Barry in the 1996 game.
The whole "shot to remove powers" is like that videogame trope of the sequel game removing all the late game skills you get in the previous game that pisses me off everytime in RPGs.
Apparently him destroying that time thing the time masters had blew him into another dimension where he's stuck in an RE fanfic. Too bad the gun and the deadpan voice didn't go with him. the resident evil series would've been so much better if it had been captain cold instead of Alice in umbrellaland.
Did anyone else listen to Shawn Roberts as Wesker, and get the feeling that he was trying to imitate D.C. Douglas' performance as RE5's Wesker, save clipping out the latter's British accent? Given how much this movie rips off--er, *imitates* RE5 in other areas, it wouldn't surprise me. Though as far as things TO imitate goes, they certainly could've done worse; D.C. Douglas was an *awesome* Wesker. In any case. Roberts sure comes closer to canon!Wesker than Jason O'Mara did, in the last film (the 'corporate little weiner' Phelous mentions, before going on to talk about 'the new Wesker', Roberts).
It's like a series of alternate universes all being run together like they're on on-going plot. It's like someone made a movie, and then just started making movies based on all the fan fictions people wrote about it.
As someone who reviews fanfiction, I can confirm that these films are basically fanfiction, except maybe the 1st movie (the only one I like). All the worst traits of fanfiction combined into one horrible mess can been seen in the sequels...except for porn. Also, I think Milla Jovovich might hate Jill Valentine since there is a lot of Jill abuse is this series. Apocalypse: Jill is an idiot who puts on an outfit that will make survival harder, and becomes a useless cheerleader for Alice. Extinction: Jill is never referenced as if she does not matter. Carlos who liked Jill in RE3 now has a raging boner for Alice. Afterlife: Same as Extinction till the end where Jill is mind controlled. In RE5, Jill ripped her outfit open revealing the jewel which let Chris know what he needed to do to save her, meaning she actually contributed to being rescued. Retribution: Jill is basically the same as RE5, just without the contributing to being rescued part mentioned earlier. And then proceeds to be a useless cheerleader again when she is rescued. I am guessing the "final" film will have her be just like in Apocalypse...call it a hunch. So from this, I think it is safe to say Milla hates Jill the most since all the other characters do not get abused as much. Or maybe Anderson just wants to promote his wife, so he makes Jill look as bad as possible since she is considered THE Resident Evil girl? That is my theory at least. My personal head canon is that Alice never woke up at the end of the 1st film, and all the movies afterwards are her coma-induced dreams.
Scott smith Maybe she liked Carlos and was upset Carlos liked Jill? Perhaps she is jealous of how Jill has a better chest, or is more popular then her. Those are my best guesses. I do know that Milla said she wanted to play Jill in the first move, but Paul W.S. Anderson convinced her not to. I am not sure if she is telling the truth or not. If true, then I guess Anderson hates Jill.
they don't even know what the red device is in the movie they think it's a robotic spider while this is a nice idea the games variant simply injected steroids that made you easy to manipulate and extremely strong
3:19 Phelous: Neither is she, she off dying her hair blonde. *Jill looking confused after loading her gun* I know that wasnt intentional but some reason that made me creaked up
my biggest problem with that wesker fight is the fact that alice stabs him with a knife covered with her blood, aka her dna, so that means she gave wesker exactly what he wanted since her blood would then be in his system and given how things work in resident evil that would probably be enough
Also, the reason Wesker can survive so much stuff is because he Injected himself with (I think the T-Virus or the G-Virus.) Which is why he survived the Tyrant after being Impaled, and the and the Mansion explosion. (This is all found out in the Umbrella Chronicles.)
in the game yea but in these stupid movies none of the masion event ever happen , now he just happen to have T virus las plaga combo bullshjt with no explanation and inject himself that why he can survive all of that
Dr Strangelove Well, last time I checked it was Birkin who injected himself with G-Virus, and he is one of three people to ever be injected with it. The other two being Sherry (Kinda) and the dude from Degeneration. Also, Resident Evil Revelation is Wesker's sister trying to get her hands on the prototype Virus so she can be like him.
wait, so wesker had a plaga in him too. now normally i'd just take that to mean anderson adapted the sucker mouths and merged them with the t-virus, except then next movie the red queen explicitly mentions Las Plagas! What the hell is going on here!
Notice how the movements during the Wesker battle are directly copied from the RE5 cutscene? The glasses throw, the backflip, the teleportation, revealing the reptile eyes without glasses, and putting them on before grabbing their hands and throwing them etc.
I'm not a fan of horror games (They terrify me) but somehow, your comedy stuff helps me get through any scary parts so thanks for that :) also the cosplay outfits are very cool 14.7.22
After watching the final chapter, I really appreciate this film. At least you can see the slow mo, rather than having the camera too close in the dark.
5:51 This is the first time I notice that the slide dosen't move back when he fires. Cmon they even do that in complete trash movies...well, a few atleast.
24:58 No. I say it's like he pulled a Masashi Kishimoto in how he referenced Naruto's previous arcs incorrectly...as well as have the rest to the story characters devolve into dung.
KingNazaru actually I like that series, what I didn't follow was your thoughts on it. Sure the fillers can get annoying, but to me, all in all, it's still my favorite anime
Tobisaru It's not just the anime that's bad, the manga is as well. There are numerous plot holes, it's ripped off better mangas including Masashi's brother's O Part Hunter 666, retconned its story a multitude of times, characters acting insane, stupid, like assholes, pretentious pseudo philosophy, contradicting the rules set up for how the series works etc.
This movie is basically the Alice version of Resident Evil 5, set in the US (instead of Africa). They had the executioner, las plagas, Chris (no Sheva though, instead it's Claire), no Uroboros plotline but it's still Wesker as the Big Bad. They even have the plane crash with the miraculous survival except it's not a volcano this time, and the only thing they really missed was the boulder-punching. It's honestly no worse than the plot and events of the game. Btw the split-head dog in the movie you said is from Silent Hill is ALSO in RE5, it's the Adjule. Do even remember the last fight in RE:5? Wesker's spinning trash arms and Chris punching him in the heart and I get Sheva to shoot him in the heart with a rocket launcher with Chris still clinging to his back and he's just fine and the entire fight is in a convenient volcano and as they get rescued you both fire rocket launchers from within the helicopter... This IS Resident Evil. This is where it is: This movie IS the state of the game in RE5. Completely absurd, take it for what it is. The games and movies are SO FAR AWAY from what the franchise was in the original Resident Evil, if, what you liked of the first game was the slow pace and the slow unfolding and the creeping horror leading up to the Tyrant and the rocket launcher, and not - as the games and movies have given us - was the supernatural science, grow-fast monsters, and lots and lots of shit blowing up. Considering what I've recently been playing in RE5... all the nonsense in that... you're being way, WAY too harsh on the movies. (But yes, I would have liked the original characters to do a bit more in the Alice Universe... and on that front, they were at least cast faithfully, unlike the recent garbage we've been offered...) I mean really, as a mindless action flick loosely based on elements of RE5, this movie is fine. Although I'd be ok with a faithful retelling of the actual RE5 story too, I suppose... if we got Irving, Excella etc in it. (Would probably need to be a fan movie.) (I posted this on your rant video too... but I think it belongs here... with your actual review. Oops.)
I always find it so jarring how different Sienna Guillory (Jill) looks here (and in Retribution) compared to Apocalypse. I didn't think it was the same actor the first time I saw the movie, shows how much different hair and makeup can change your look I guess. I only bring it up because the cutting between the movies from 26:28 really sharply highlights the difference.
One thing I will say for these movies is that they allowed Phelous to review them, and I sometimes like to watch these movies before playing any Resident Evil games, as the horrificness of them really makes you appreciate the games more.
