The degree to which this fast-food movie and its predecessors are completely forgettable is counteracted by Anderson’s usual clip-show recaps at the beginning of each new sequel.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 27, 2022

To make up for the utter lake of sensibility, the film incorporates lots of spontaneous action, sudden crashes or explosions or gunfire, and hyperactive zombies.

| Original Score: 1/10 | Dec 2, 2020

I was starting to sort of like these films, in a silly way, but this was so empty, filled with so many long scenes of characters just shooting machine guns at each other....

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 31, 2019

You should manage to keep your eyes occupied to a degree that your brain won't even notice until the credits start to roll.

| Aug 2, 2019

It's just another monotonous spectacle that feels like you're watching someone else play a video game.

| Apr 11, 2019

Sometimes you just need to turn off your brain and enjoy some good old-fashioned ultraviolence. Mmmm...brains...

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 2, 2018

Long running franchises tend to suffer from the same ailment -- the latter installments eventually lose sight of the better aspects of the series.

| Oct 20, 2018

Paul W.S. Anderson makes lively, unpretentious mid-budget genre movies fixated on video-gamey "cool" and distinguished by their leanness and their inventive-and sometimes even poetic-use of space.

| Nov 19, 2017

You know it's dreadful while you watch it, yet you're still paying rapt attention to its vehement anti-genius.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 19, 2017

It seems that Anderson was forced to film this with a gun to his head. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 15, 2017

Any unfortunate souls who wander in with no prior Resident Evil experience will wonder how something this anemic and shallow was ever popular. You and me both, friends.

| Jul 17, 2013

Looks are absolutely everything in Retribution, which melds stunning 3-D computer-graphics and spectacular sets with a skimpy storyline and zero characterization.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 15, 2013

More high-calorie, low-sense, audiovisual CGI stimulation arrives in the form of this fifth and most roundly unsatisfying entry in the previously lithe and fun videogame franchise.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 7, 2013

It has a Rolls with spinning hub caps - what more do you want?

| Jan 18, 2013

More of the same idiotic swill that Anderson feeds his numbskull fan base.

| Jan 10, 2013

It's a funny thing about Jovovich as Alice: she gives the character just enough personality, but not enough to break the somber apocalyptic mood.

| Original Score: B- | Dec 17, 2012

The Resident Evil films are not everyone's bag, although they seem to be evolving into their own brand of hyper-stylized cheese, made more extreme with each outing.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 19, 2012

"Retribution" has actually got some very decent action and 3D effects. The story is still razor-thin. But, by the end of it all, I was ready for the next sequel, the presumed finale.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 8, 2012

For those of us who know what we're in for with the series, the fifth installment is for better or worse, more of the same - albeit with the familiar levels of ridiculousness from its maddeningly inconsistent director/writer

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Oct 6, 2012

You can put as much gloss on top of the shaky foundations and wooden acting as possible but as soon becomes apparent - you can't varnish a turd.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 5, 2012