Nobody goes to a Resident Evil movie expecting a classic but this fifth entry in the series is just plain cruddy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 21, 2012

The script is incoherent and the acting is terrible -- avatars would have been an improvement.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 17, 2012

Thuddingly awful.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 17, 2012

Some sequels suggest that no one involved with a franchise really cares anymore.

Full Review | Sep 17, 2012

A zombie plague may have laid waste the world, but apparently supplies of black leather unitards have yet to be exhausted.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 15, 2012

A maniacal montage of cartoonish battle sequences.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 15, 2012

Anderson's action chops are undeniable - but Resident Evil: Retribution might be one of the dumbest things ever crafted by human hands.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Sep 15, 2012

At this point in the franchise, Anderson is content to alight the saga on a perpetual rewind loop, ever-ending, ever-rebooting, all subsidized by his nonpareil compositional sense.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 14, 2012

During the film's final sequence the director explains all while also suggesting that the franchise's nuttiest days are, remarkably, yet to come.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 14, 2012

The acting is sometimes shockingly bad, but generally the script doesn't ask much of the actors, and the combat is effectively staged and often thrilling.

| Original Score: C | Sep 14, 2012

Writer-director Paul W.S. Anderson ... attempts to fill out a flimsy plot structure by making the characters' comings and goings overly convoluted.

| Sep 14, 2012

Resident Evil movies don't tell stories so much as they provide variations on a theme, and that theme is: a pubescent boy's wet dream recast as an antiseptic dub-step nightmare

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 14, 2012

Diagramming every revolution of Jovovich in wheeling and whirling action, however, Anderson is pitch-perfect when singing the body electric.

| Sep 14, 2012

The film's extravagant action scenes have not a whiff of consequence to them, and other than Alice, the foremost quality of all of the characters is their disposability.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Sep 14, 2012

If they ran these scenes at normal speed, would 95 dreary minutes become a much more expedient 20 to 25?

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 14, 2012

Endless video-game-style, violent mayhem is on display in this latest edition of the mind-numbing apocalypse series.

| Sep 14, 2012

Like an established pizza chain, director Anderson is in thrall to a guarantee: all relationships, of any significance, will be established in three seconds or less.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 14, 2012

It's all the same blah-blah carnage as the first four flicks, with 3D effects hurling blood, blades and body parts into the audience amid a non-stop barrage of gunfire and explosions.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 13, 2012