Resident Evil – The Saga

WORK – No, but say, is it good or not?

Alice wakes up in a desert mansion. She doesn't even remember her own identity. It was then that Matt, who claimed to be a police officer, quickly followed by an armed commando. The latter takes them to a gigantic underground laboratory, where something dreadful happened. But the team finds itself trapped in this strange high-tech universe... where the dead have the gift of being able to wake up and hunt the living.

Resident Evil
Adaptation of Capcom's videoludic cult saga, Resident Evil preserves the atmosphere, creatures and settings of video games but unfortunately never manages to scare. Fortunately the deprecated action, the intrepid Milla Jovovich, the putrefied living dead and the neo-metal BO make it a quality horrific entertainment.

Resident Evil: Revelation
Openly more gore and energetic than the first opus, Resident Evil: Revelation chain the petaradant action scenes at a fast pace for a final result rich in SFX and strong sensations despite a ricketic scenario. But what a pity the chopped assembly makes some passages confused.

Resident Evil: Extinction
One Resident Evil with sauce Mad Max Visually neat, carried by a post-apocalyptic atmosphere that makes its small effect. Good entertainment.

Resident Evil: Afterlife
This new film franchise opus Resident Evil (always as far away from video games) is a visually seductive decomplexed actuator, which uses all the modern high-tech possibilities (bubble-time effects to gogo, 3D) to fill our eyes and ears with spectacular action scenes and stakeholders, and so much worse for the inconsistent scenario, for the many inconsistencies and for the barely sketched characters (apart from heroin always performed with aplomb by the beautiful Milla Jovovich). A pure guilty pleasure that gives a hell fishing.

Resident Evil: Retribution
From its dantesque opening scene to its phenomenal conclusion, this fifth adaptation of the videoludic franchise Resident Evil Built in the form of levels is dazzled by the fascinating presence of the sublime Milla Jovovich, is rhythmized by Tomandandy's fantastic original tape and frantically chains the spectacular and totally uncomplexed action scenes that flow under gusts of special effects that really fill the view. As usual, the film is far removed from the video game even though there are many references, the script goes in all senses and the characters are transparent but like its predecessors, it is not to doubt about a tasty guilty pleasure. Truly the continuation (which will be the end) of this atypical high-tech saga.

Resident Evil: Final Chapter
Even more entertaining and rhythmic than its elders, this series B of non-stop action in the post-apo cinematic world is a race against the overvitamin watch where the spectacular sequences, led by an athletic Milla Jovovich, take precedence over any scripting requirement. Guilty pleasure deviating as it should!

IMAGE – Everyone's beautiful, are you sure?

More « Realistic » and « nuanced », the images of these UHD HDR10 transfers take advantage of more complex details than in HD , more cossuous colors (sometimes even deliberately duller to accentuate the post-apo stamp of photography), much better treated contrasts (see the ease of blacks), more intense lighting (such as the light beam of flashlights) and ostensibly more authentic silver grain (the first three opus were captured in Super 35 mm).

SON – He who has ears to hear, hear!

With unheard of power, Dolby Atmos mixes do not stop catapulting pyrotechnic and/or atmospheric effects in all directions (an asserted exploitation of a noisy aerial scene that can play with the presence of biological weapons) without hiding anything from the score inside that very efficiently rhythms the whole.

CONCLUSION – Every good thing has an end...

Freely adapted from Capcom's videoludic cult franchise, this high-tech saga « deviant » comes back to life in Ultra HD Blu-ray... And that's little to say that she's in great shape!