Resident Evil: Retribution

The best part of this film is the final scene.
Resident Evil: Retribution kicks off directly where the previous film left off, with Jill Valentine (Sienna Guillory) leading an attack on Arcadia, a ship housing survivors from the T-virus, and the same place where Alice, Chris and Claire Redfield happen to be.
Alice (Milla Jovovich) is captured after an intense battle scene we see in slow motion rewind during the title credits and in real time after it. She is taken to an(other) Umbrella Corporation base, where she is interrogated by Valentine. But not before we get a flashback to pre-T-virus Alice is living a normal life just before the zombies attack.
During this interrogation the power goes, allowing Alice to fight her way out of a simulation which brings her face to face with Albert Wesker's (Shawn Roberts) top agent, Ada Wong (Li Bingbing).
What follows is an excuse to bring Michelle Rodriguez back to the series through several simulations of which Alice and Jill have to fight to survive. In fact, several characters from the previous films make their comebacks in these simulations as Valentine and the Red Queen attempt to recapture Alice.
There are quite a few action sequences which, again, aren't too bad, but the extreme level of CGI takes away from the film quite dramatically. In fact, I severely disliked the smiulations. When you need to find excuses to bring several "dead' characters back to life, or you have to clone the central character umpteen times to get a job done, it's a surefire sign that the series is running low on gas.
That aside, the final scene which show US Marines, S.T.A.R.S and Umbrella Corporation personnel working together to defend the White House in humanity's final stand against hordes of undead/infected actually has me a little keen for the next, and final, entry to the series. I love a good climactic battle, and I sincerely hope I'm not left disappointed.

Resident Evil: Retribution: 95 minutes (2012)