Analysis

The Andromeda Strain. Dir. Mikael Salomon. Perf. Benjamin Bratt, Christa Miller, Louis Ferreira. Universal Studios, 2008.

Resident Evil is similar to The Andromeda Strain, that younger viewers may have seen on the Sci Fi channel.  The plot is a virus that is being covered up by the government.  The government has created a deadly virus in space, and when the satellite crashes in the remote Utah town of Piedmont, people start dying.  Dr. Jeremy Stone leads a crack team of scientists as they work feverishly in a secret, state-of-the-art laboratory to discover what has killed the citizens of Piedmont, and why two survivors seem to have been immune.  Not realizing that the government had developed the virus and now wants a cure so it can be used in battle.  Which is the same storyline used in Resident Evil, except by a corporation.

Theme

The series of Resident Evil represents the evils of mega Corporations.  These corporations care nothing about the lives of individuals, but instead the underlying greed and corruption of power.  In this series, the Umbrella Corporation has manufactured a virus to make super bio-weapons, that turning people into super powerful zombie soldiers.  In the series, this greed is seen in the motto “Obedience brings discipline, discipline brings unity, and unity brings power. Power is life.”  Similarities can easily be seen between the Umbrella Corporation and the pharmaceutical corporations in the world today.  Where drugs and viruses  are tested on test subjects hidden away from the public eyes, and the laboratories are spread around the world.  Theories abound that both private industry and the government is involved in experimentation on the public.  The atomic tests in Nevada, and the viruses spread in the New York subways.  To the government and these mega corporations, the people are a means to power, control the people and you control the power.

 life savers or criminals

interested in your health or money

safe and effective?

 guns or drugs?

Just because you may be paranoid, does not mean they are not out to get you!

Review

"Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)." Resident Evil: Retribution. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Mar. 2013. <http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/resident_evil_retribution/>.

  "'Resident Evil: Retribution' Review: Where's the Pause Button?" Newsday. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Mar. 2013. <http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/movies/resident-evil-retribution-review-where-s-the-pause-button-1.4003979>.

      According the film critic Rafer Guzman, " 'Retribution' is essentially a video game you don't even have to play".   He compares the women in the film as "living fetish objects, distinguished mostly by their outfits".  Though the normal target audience member (teenage boys, and young men) would disagree with his comments as the women in the film appeal to their interests. He has issues with the script as being incoherent while stating that the acting is terrible, though he is forgetting that the movie is a extended scene of a video game.  Also he misses a key point with Becky, a new daughter figure to Alice.  The daughter figure of Alice will most likely be a key point in the next installment of Resident Evil, as a companion and helper to decimate the zombie hordes.

Bio

"Paul W.S. Anderson." IMDb. IMDb.com, n.d. Web. 29 Mar. 2013. <http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0027271/>.

   
Paul W.S. Anderson was born on March 4, 1965 at Newcastle-upon-Tyne in Northern England.   He attended Warwick University where he graduated with honors and an MBA in film. Anderson began working on feature films in the early 90s, penning and directing the film Shopping followed by his American debut, Mortal Kombat (1995) a year later. Anderson returned to the video game film genre and directed Milla Jovovich in Resident Evil(2002), followed by Alien Vs. Predator (2004).  In 2009, Anderson married Jovovich, his fiancee; of six years, with whom he has a daughter. Tired of having to explain the raining frogs in the movie Magnolia (1999), he added the initials W.S. to his name to avoid confusion with indie filmmaker Paul Anderson. Paul is now fielding questions about what it's like to work with Bill Murray because of the similarity of his name to author Wes Anderson.

Synopsis

Resident Evil: Retribution. Dir. Paul W. Anderson. By Paul W. Anderson. Perf. Milla Jovovich,   Sienna Guillory, Michelle Rodriguez. Screen Gems (Sony), 2012. DVD.

      Alice awakens in the ultra-top secret facility of Umbrella, and finds that she has been cloned.  Finding Ada, she is told that Wesker and Ada are no longer working for the Umbrella Corporation, as the supercomputer Red Queen has taken over. Wesker tells Alice that he has sent an extraction team to assist her in escaping, but that she must get to the extraction point.  The Red Queen promptly tells her that she is going to die before escaping.  While attempting to reach the extraction point, Alice locates her clone daughter Becky, whom she promises to protect.  Alice and Becky, after planting and detonating explosives in the underwater facility,  reach the surface and reunite with the rescue team while Umbrella Prime floods below them. Wesker injects her with the T-Virus  and shows her the waves of undead that are outside the White House barricades.