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| RESIDENT EVIL : RETRIBUTION |
Resident Evil: Retribution is a 2012 science fiction thriller film written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson. It is the fifth installment in the Resident Evil film series, based on the Capcom survival horror video game series Resident Evil, and the third to be directed by Anderson. It is a direct follow-on from the previous film Resident Evil: Afterlife.
The film has many returning actors and characters, along with new
characters from the video game not featured in the previous films.
Filming took place from October to December 2011 for a scheduled release date of September 14, 2012. The film was released in 3D and IMAX 3D, as well as 2D.
The film sees Alice (Milla Jovovich) captured by the Umbrella Corporation,
forcing her to make her escape from an underwater base in the Arctic
Circle, used for testing the T-virus. Many characters from previous
films return, including Jill Valentine (Sienna Guillory), Carlos Olivera (Oded Fehr), Luther West (Boris Kodjoe), Rain Ocampo (Michelle Rodriguez), James "One" Shade (Colin Salmon), and Albert Wesker (Shawn Roberts). Three new characters from the games appear for the first time in the franchise: Ada Wong (Li Bingbing), Leon S. Kennedy (Johann Urb), and Barry Burton (Kevin Durand).
Plot
Following where the previous film left off, Alice (Milla Jovovich) and the others on the Umbrella Corporation freighter Arcadia face an attack by a fleet of airships led by Alice's former ally Jill Valentine (Sienna Guillory),
who has been brainwashed by Umbrella through a red scarab device
attached to her chest. When Alice causes an airship to crash into the
ship, she is knocked unconscious into the water.
Switching over into what seems to be an alternate reality, Alice finds herself living as a suburban housewife with her husband Todd (Oded Fehr) — a clone of Carlos Olivera — and deaf daughter Becky (Aryana Engineer).
However, this idyllic life is disrupted when zombies attack and kill
Todd. Alice and Becky escape to the streets and are rescued by Rain Ocampo (Michelle Rodriguez),
who lets them ride in her car. As the three escape, they are hit by a
truck, knocking Rain unconscious while Alice and Becky escape. Alice
runs and is attacked by a zombified Todd.
The apparent dream ends when the the real Alice awakens in an Umbrella base, having been captured at the Arcadia.
Jill interrogates Alice, who unsuccessfully pleads with her to remember
her true identity. During an unexpected power failure, Alice escapes
from her cell. After battling a horde of zombies, Alice encounters Ada Wong (Li Bingbing), an associate of Albert Wesker (Shawn Roberts).
Ada explains that she and Wesker no longer work for Umbrella. Wesker
appears and, seeming to have redeemed himself, reveals that the Red
Queen is now controling was left of Umbrella and he plans to aid Alice's
escape and battle the base's programs, in order to save what's left of
mankind. Ada also reveals that the base is underwater and serves as a
testing ground for experiments. Additionally, Wesker has organized a
team of freelance operatives to infiltrate the base and help Alice and
Ada escape, including Leon S. Kennedy (Johann Urb), Barry Burton (Kevin Durand), and Luther West (Boris Kodjoe).
Leon's team plants explosives near the entrance of the base, which
will detonate in two hours and trap anybody still inside. The group
plans to meet with Alice and Ada in a simulated Raccoon City suburbia, identical to the one in Alice's flashback. As Alice and Ada walk through a simulation of New York City, they defeat two Axemen. Leon and his team enter a Moscow simulation, but are cut off by armed Las Plagas
zombies. Alice and Ada manage to enter the suburban simulation where
they were supposed to meet up with Leon and his team. In the arena the
two find Becky, as well as Jill and her mercenaries, consisting of
clones of Alice's deceased allies: Rain, Carlos and James "One" Shade (Colin Salmon). A shoot-out occurs, resulting in Ada being captured and Alice and Becky escaping.
Alice and Becky run into the "good" Rain (the one encountered in
Alice's dream), and head to Moscow, where they meet up with Leon's team.
The group escapes the intelligent zombies, and reach an elevator that
leads them to submarines that could help them escape, although it shuts
off. An enormous licker appears, with it capturing Becky and killing
"good" Rain. The group pursues the licker, where they encounter Jill's
group; another battle ensues, in which Barry is killed but not before he
kills One. Alice manages to rescue Becky. During their escape from the
licker they arrive at a cloning facility where Alice and Becky see
multiple copies of themselves. Realizing this Becky pleads and asks
Alice to tell her the truth, at which Alice declares that she is now her
mother. Then she goes to the pod where she rescued Becky from, killing
the licker and destroying the cloning facility. They rejoin Leon and
Luther as the detonation occurs. The explosion results in the flooding
of the facility and the death of Carlos.
The group reaches the surface; however, they are met by a submarine,
from which Jill, the evil Rain, and a captured Ada emerge. With new
orders from the Red Queen to kill Alice, Jill battles Alice while Rain,
injecting herself with the Las Plagas parasite that gives her strength
and apparent invincibility, knocks out Ada and fights Leon and Luther,
with Luther being killed in the process. Alice manages to remove and
destroy the scarab device from Jill, returning her back to normal. Alice
joins Leon in fighting Rain; she notices there are zombies from the
facility swimming up to the ice. She shoots the ice where Rain is
standing, and she falls in the water, leaving her fate to the zombies.
Alice, Ada, Becky, Leon, and Jill (who is no longer being controlled by
the Red Queen) travel to Wesker's base: the heavily barricaded and
guarded White House.
Wesker injects Alice with the T-virus,returning her former superhuman
powers in order to enact his plan, then tells her that she is
responsible for saving the remaining humans from extinction once and for
all. After they walk onto the top of The White House, the scene zooms
out to reveal the landscape around them, showing enormous hordes of
zombies, flying creatures and other monsters.
Cast
- An ex-employee of Umbrella Corporation, and primary protagonist of the film series. After being tested on by Umbrella, she sets out to destroy all of those who started the outbreak. When asked about her character, Jovovich says that "Alice started off as the audience, as this innocent bystander watching what’s going on and then finally understanding what role she had to play in all of it and who she was. And then throughout the series, she kinda started separating from people. You know, first she realized Umbrella was controlling her, so she couldn’t be close to people. Now that she’s human again, and not only human again, but now she’s almost… I mean, this is her life. This is what she loves in a weird, sick way. It’s what she does best. And I think in this one, she has a little bit more of a sense of humor about it and is a little more relaxed with it. It’s not as shocking as it normally is. In a sense, now she’s got her friends, her team, she’s part of a team. She’s a human being again, so she’s connected with the people around her. And she has fun with them. In some strange, twisted way, she get a kick out of it."
- A former member of Special Tactics And Rescue Service (S.T.A.R.S.), police officer of Raccoon City and ally of Alice who was captured and subsequently mind-controlled by Umbrella to find Alice, hence becoming the main antagonist of the film. Sometime after the events of Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Jill was captured by the Umbrella Corporation and is under their control through the Scarab Appliance on her chest. Guillory was originally set to appear in Resident Evil: Extinction, but she dropped out due to her commitment to Eragon. She made a cameo appearance in Resident Evil: Afterlife.[8]
- A pair of clones of Rain Ocampo, who was an Umbrella commando operative from the original film where she died. The Umbrella Corporation has cloned Rain, creating a "Good Rain" and a "Bad Rain". "Bad Rain" is hunting down Alice, under Jill's orders. For many years, Anderson has been trying to get Rodriguez back in the Resident Evil films. He says that he wanted "to kind of give her an opportunity to play something different." Rodriguez explains "Bad Rain" as "mechanical, very straight-forward and very matter-of-fact" and "Good Rain" as "awkward and different - someone who is quirky and doesn’t know how to handle a gun and someone who is curious."
- Aryana Engineer as Becky
- A little girl whom Alice develops a mother-daughter relationship with. Jovovich says that the relationship between Alice and Becky is similar to Ripley and Newt in Aliens. She went on to say the relationship is a way for Alice to hold onto her humanity. Becky is a deaf child, but does speak, as revealed when she says 'Please get a room!' in the official trailer. She is first seen in the film when Alice has a flashback in an Umbrella Corporation Investigation room, based on the day Racoon City is infected with the T-Virus. She is found by Alice, when she goes into one remaining house on a suburban street. Ada complains that Becky is just a clone, but Alice takes her anyway. As they leave the house, Alice, Ada and Becky are encountered by a team of Jill Valentine, Rain Ocampo (Bad Rain), One and Carlos Olivera. While in Moscow, Becky is captured by a licker and Alice must fight it one-on-one to get her back.
- A survivor and leader of a resistance group who teams up with Alice to hunt down Umbrella. Anderson says that the decision to include Leon, Ada, and Barry in the film was "fan-driven". When describing his character's story, Urb says "As far as I can tell, I’ve just been fending for myself, taking care of business, and banding with some people. Then, apparently what’s happened is Alice is in a bit of trouble. Wesker needs somebody who, what’s the word… is smart enough and strong enough to go in and save Alice. Leon is the first thought that comes to mind, obviously."
- A survivor and member of Leon Kennedy's resistance group who teams up with Alice to hunt down Umbrella. Slated as Leon's "partner in crime" and close friend.
- A survivor who is taken captive by Jill as she hunts down Alice. Despite their romance in the video game, Li says that Ada and Leon Kennedy's relationship will be "subtle" in the film. Li got the role only a few days after her first audition, and prepared for the role by watching Resident Evil: Degeneration. During filming, she wore a $7,500 wig.
- A pair of clones of Carlos Olivera, a former Umbrella commando and love interest of Alice, who was killed in a sacrificial explosion in Resident Evil: Extinction. Carlos, who appeared in Resident Evil: Apocalypse and also Resident Evil: Extinction, was cloned after his death by Umbrella Corporation, creating a "Good Carlos" and a "Bad Carlos". There is also set to be a flashback, showing Carlos living in a suburban area with Alice as his wife and a daughter named Becky. Fehr says in an interview that "the interesting thing is, I come back as two different guys on this one. There’s a dynamic to the relationship with Milla’s character, and then there’s the other side. He’s working for the Umbrella again."
- Boris Kodjoe as Luther West
- A former basketball player and survivor who joins Leon Kennedy's resistance and reunites with Alice in the process. He previously appeared in Resident Evil: Afterlife as the leader of a survivor group stationed in Los Angeles and is one of the few characters that did not originate from the video games. Kodjoe found out that he would return for the fifth film after he read the script for Afterlife and found out that his character survives
- Colin Salmon as James "One" Shade
- A clone of James Shade, the leader of the Umbrella commando team who died in the original film. After his death, his DNA was cloned by Umbrella and is used against Alice.
- Former-head of the Umbrella Corporation. Wesker serves as the primary antagonist of the film series, and is revealed to have survived the events of Afterlife. In this film he takes on a much different role. He is responsible for helping Alice escape so she can help him save the human race.
- Mika Nakashima as J-Pop Girl
- The patient zero of the T-virus in Japan. After seeing her performance in Afterlife, both Jovovich and director Paul W. S. Anderson praised Nakashima saying, “I want to work with Mika again.” Describing her fight sequence with Jovovich, Nakashima expressed, “It was a very valuable experience. A lot of things were new to me, so I had fun.”
- Megan Charpentier and Ave Merson-O'Brian (voice) as The Red Queen
- The main antagonist of the original film and the artificial intelligence that operated the Hive, a secret underground facility where the T-virus was developed. She has been reactivated by the Umbrella Corporation and is at war against humanity.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_Evil:_Retribution
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