Movie · 2007 · Horror, Action, Science Fiction · 1h 34m · R · English
Curator score: 0.9/10 (363.1K ratings)
All bets are off.
Overview
Years after the Racoon City catastrophe, survivors travel across the Nevada desert, hoping to make it to Alaska. Alice joins the caravan and their fight against hordes of zombies and the evil Umbrella Corp.
Ratings
Curator score: 0.9/10
IMDb: 6.2/10
Letterboxd: 2.60/5
Rotten Tomatoes: 24%
Metacritic: 41
TMDB: 6.3/10
Director
Russell Mulcahy
Production
Screen Gems, Impact Pictures, Davis Films, Constantin Film
Cast
Milla Jovovich, Oded Fehr, Ali Larter, Iain Glen, Ashanti, Christopher Egan, Spencer Locke, Matthew Marsden, Linden Ashby, Jason O'Mara, Mike Epps, Joe Hursley, John Eric Bentley, James Tumminia, Kirk B.R. Woller, Rick Cramer, Madeline Carroll, Peter O'Meara, William Abadie, Ramón Franco
Curator Review
Verdict
A scrappy, post-apocalyptic zombie chase movie that works best as a pulpy action ride rather than a coherent horror sequel. The desert-road setting, comic-book violence, and Milla Jovovich’s committed lead performance give it a distinct, watchable energy even when the plotting gets silly.
Best for
fans of fast, trashy apocalypse action
viewers who enjoy B-movie world-building and mutant mayhem
people in the mood for a lean, desert-set survival chase
audiences who like franchise entries that embrace absurdity
Skip if
you want tight logic or serious horror
you dislike campy sci-fi concepts like psychic powers and clones
you prefer character-driven drama over set-piece momentum
you are already tired of zombie-apocalypse road movies
Overview
Resident Evil: Extinction is the point where the series stops pretending to be grounded and leans fully into post-apocalyptic pulp. The Nevada desert setting gives it a harsher, more stripped-down texture than the earlier films, and the caravan structure creates a decent sense of motion and desperation even when the script is mostly stitching together survival beats.
Worth noting
Russell Mulcahy brings a music-video snap to the action, which suits the movie’s speed and comic-book logic. The result is messy, but not inert: zombie crows, psychic powers, and Umbrella’s endless incompetence all contribute to a kind of gleeful nonsense that can be easy to enjoy if you accept the franchise on its own terms.
Bottom line
It is not especially scary, and it rarely feels emotionally convincing, but it does have a grim, end-of-the-world momentum that keeps it moving. As a franchise chapter, it’s more interesting for its atmosphere and escalation than for its story, which makes it a solid mixed-bag watch for genre fans.
Top Letterboxd reviews
Patrick Willems (2.5★) · 1309 likes
The Umbrella Corporation is so so so so so so bad at everything they try to do
nadine (4★) · 1002 likes
"What's your name?""K-Mart. It's where they found me.""Do you have another name?""I never liked it, and everyone I know is dead now."
i told yall these movies had a ~trans subtext~
Carol Grant (4★) · 574 likes
Resident Evil: Fury Road
Josh Lewis (3★) · 433 likes
"Yeah... kill a few, save a lot."
The search for purpose as an unforgiving, apocalyptic nightmare. The fourth best Mad Max movie?
yuki (2★) · 399 likes
i think alice should enroll now in xavier's school for gifted youngsters