Resident Evil: Afterlife

Resident Evil: Afterlife

Theatrical poster
Directed by Paul W. S. Anderson
Produced by Paul W. S. Anderson
Jeremy Bolt
Don Carmody
Bernd Eichinger
Samuel Hadida
Robert Kulzer
Written by Paul W. S. Anderson
Based on Resident Evil by
Capcom
Starring Milla Jovovich
Ali Larter
Kim Coates
Shawn Roberts
Boris Kodjoe
Spencer Locke
Wentworth Miller
Music by tomandandy
Cinematography Glen MacPherson
Editing by Niven Howie
Studio Constantin Film
Davis Films
Impact Pictures
Distributed by Screen Gems
Release date(s) September 10, 2010 (2010-09-10)
Running time 97 minutes[1]
Country Canada
Germany
Language English
Budget $60 million (estimated)
Box office $296.2 million

Resident Evil: Afterlife is a 2010 Canadian-German[2] 3D science-fiction horror action film written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson. It stars Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Kim Coates, Shawn Roberts, Spencer Locke, Boris Kodjoe, and Wentworth Miller. The film marks Anderson's second time to direct in the series, the first being the first installment. It is the first to be in 3D and fourth installment in the Resident Evil film series, which is based on the Capcom survival horror series Resident Evil.

The film follows Alice searching and rescuing the remaining survivors in Los Angeles after the T-virus outbreak, and teaming up against Albert Wesker, the head of the Umbrella Corporation. Chris Redfield, a primary character from the video games, was featured for the first time in the film franchise. Other characters from the games and films who returned are: Claire Redfield, Albert Wesker and Jill Valentine.

In May 2005, producers mentioned the possibility of following Extinction with a sequel titled Afterlife. Extinction was released in 2007 and was a box office success prompting Afterlife to begin development in June 2008, with the script being written by Anderson that December. Elements from the video game Resident Evil 5 (2009) were incorporated into the film. Filming took place in Toronto from September to December 2009 using the 3D Fusion Camera System.

The film was released in 3D and IMAX 3D theaters on September 10, 2010 and received mostly negative reviews from critics. Although the film grossed $60 million in the United States and Canada on an estimated $60 million budget, it made $236 million in other markets surpassing the previous film's overseas total in the second week of release. Grossing a worldwide total of $296 million, Resident Evil: Afterlife became the highest-grossing entry of the series with the overseas total almost equaling the previous films' overseas total combined. Resident Evil: Afterlife was released to DVD, Blu-ray, and Blu-ray 3D on December 28, 2010 in the United States.

Contents

Plot

Four years after the outbreak of the T-virus, the Alice clones (Milla Jovovich) attempts to kill Albert Wesker (Shawn Roberts) at his base in Tokyo. Wesker escapes and destroys the base, killing all of the clones. Alice is aboard Wesker's aircraft, though he is able to strip her of her powers before the aircraft crashes. Wesker is seemingly killed in the crash.

Six months later, Alice travels to North America in an airplane following emergency broadcasts from a safe haven known as Arcadia in Alaska. Alice is attacked by Claire Redfield (Ali Larter); after the scuffle, Alice destroys the device controlling Claire placed on her by Umbrella and finds out that Claire has lost all of her memory. The two travel to the ruins of Los Angeles in a Yak-52, where they find a group of survivors living in a prison surrounded by zombies. Luther West (Boris Kodjoe), leads the small band which includes Wendell (Fulvio Cecere), Crystal Waters (Kacey Barnfield), Bennett (Kim Coates) and Kim Yong (Norman Yeung), Angel Ortiz (Sergio Peris-Mencheta), and Chris (Wentworth Miller), who is a prisoner under lockdown in the facility. With their help, Alice lands her plane on the roof of the prison and learns that Arcadia is not a fixed place but actually a cargo tanker traveling along the coast. Alice and the survivors decide to find an alternate means to make it to the Arcadia. Chris reveals that he is the brother of Claire. He insist that he is not a prisoner but actually a soldier who fell victim to a cruel joke and claims that he knows an alternate route. Alice, seeing as they are out of options, sets Chris free.

Majini zombies tunnel into the prison through the sewers and a giant axe-wielding monster begins the process of breaking down the gate outside. To overcome the problems, Alice, Chris and Crystal go deeper into the prison to retrieve additional guns from the arsenal; Luther and Claire attempt to reinforce the gate to keep the Axeman and other zombies at bay; Bennett, Yong and Angel ready an infantry fighting vehicle for escape.

As Alice, Chris and Crystal make it to the armory, zombies swarm them, overpowering Crystal. Angel informs Bennett and Yong that the vehicle is defective and it would take a week to fix. Bennett shoots Angel, abandons Yong and escapes with Alice's airplane, and the Axeman breaks down the gate, allowing the zombies outside to enter the facility. Yong is suddenly cut down by the Axeman, whom Alice and Claire then defeat. The two meet back up with Chris at the end of the sewers but they lose Luther to a zombie who drags him back into the sewers. Alice and the Redfields commandeer a boat and board the Arcadia, finding it functional but seemingly abandoned. The trio begin releasing survivors, among them K-Mart (Spencer Locke). As Alice goes deeper in the ship, she finds Wesker, revived by the T-virus and now with incredible powers, though he is constantly at war with the T-virus for control. In order to pacify it, Wesker regularly ate fresh human DNA. He hopes to gain control of the virus by consuming Alice, the only individual to bond successfully with the T-virus on a cellular level.

Chris and Claire arrive and attack Wesker while Alice battles two dogs and Bennett, who has allied himself with Wesker. Wesker easily overpowers Chris and Claire, but Alice is able to defeat both Bennett and Wesker with help from K-Mart. While leaving, they lock Wesker in the room, but he escapes by aircraft. He activates a bomb on the Arcadia in an attempt to destroy the ship but Alice had hidden the bomb aboard his plane which explodes. Unbeknownst to them, a figure parachutes away from the explosion, while Luther emerges from the sewers, battered but alive. Alice resolves to turn the Arcadia into a real safe haven and broadcasts its message for any other survivors. As Claire, Chris, K-Mart, and Alice soon see an approaching Umbrella assault helicopter squadron. In one of the helicopters, Jill Valentine (Sienna Guillory), who went missing after Resident Evil: Apocalypse, is dictating the attack wearing the same mind control device used on Claire.[3]

Cast

  • Milla Jovovich as Alice; a former Umbrella Corporation security officer whose exposure to the T-Virus granted her superhuman abilities.
  • Ali Larter as Claire Redfield; Chris' younger sister who led a convoy of survivors who encountered Alice in the previous film.
  • Wentworth Miller as Chris Redfield; Claire's older brother who is working with an unnamed military organization combating the infected.
  • Boris Kodjoe as Luther West; a former professional basketball player and the leader of the survivors of Los Angeles.
  • Kim Coates as Bennett; a film producer and one of the survivors of Los Angeles
  • Shawn Roberts as Albert Wesker; the Chairman of the Umbrella Corporation who possesses superhuman strength, speed, and regenerative capabilities.
  • Spencer Locke as K-Mart; a young girl who was named after the department store where she was discovered hiding in and was a member of Claire's convoy of survivors in the previous film.
  • Kacey Barnfield as Crystal; a junior champ in swimming in her high school days, she came to Los Angeles to work as an actress and is one of the survivors.
  • Norman Yeung as Kim Yong; Bennett's former intern before the virus outbreak.
  • Sergio Peris-Mencheta as Angel Ortiz, a survivor in Los Angeles.
  • Sienna Guillory as Jill Valentine; a former S.T.A.R.S. operative who assisted Alice and escaped Raccoon City in Resident Evil: Apocalypse.
  • Mika Nakashima as J-Pop Girl; the first infected person in Tokyo from the opening scene who attacks a man.
  • Ray Olubowale as the Axeman; a monster taken from the game Resident Evil 5 (known as The Executioner).[4]

Production

Development

In May 2005, producers mentioned the possibility of following Extinction with a sequel entitled Afterlife, to be shot and set in Tokyo, Japan and Alaska.[6] Despite Resident Evil: Extinction being billed on the official website and elsewhere as the final installment of the Resident Evil film series; on September 23, 2007, Rory Bruer, Sony's head of distribution explained, "It absolutely would not surprise me considering the success of the franchise that they find a way to come up with another. It's a real possibility".[7] Producer Jeremy Bolt also stated that while there was no intention of making a fourth film, that the third had been particularly well done and that Paul Anderson was talking with Sony about the possibility.[8] In June 2008, Anderson noted that negotiations were underway with Sony for creating the film.[9] In December 2008, Anderson stated that he was working on the script.[10] The following year, it was announced that Sony was aiming to release Resident Evil: Afterlife by August 27, 2010.[11]

Casting

In September 2006, reports indicated that casting for the fourth film had begun, with Jensen Ackles being considered for the role of Leon S. Kennedy.[13] Ali Larter missed seven episodes of playing in the television show Heroes in order to appear in the film.[14] Wentworth Miller was cast as Chris Redfield. With never having played the Resident Evil video games,[5] Miller began preparing for the role by searching images of Chris Redfield on the internet. However, much to his surprise he noticed how muscular the character was and with only three weeks to prep before shooting, he knew it was impossible to increase his muscle mass to that extent. He was shown video footage of the games and saw how visually different he was, especially in the first game. He did cardio to build up endurance.[5] Miller described his interpretation on the character from the video game as, "He's definitely capable and heroic, but there’s also something quite innocent. He was still freshly scrubbed, in a way, at the beginning of this horrifying journey". He described his take as the character in the film, "My Chris has been walking down this particular road for quite some time. The edges are sharper, and they’re way more jagged".[15]

Shawn Roberts originally was going to audition for Chris Redfield before Miller accepted the role.[16] He went to audition for the role of Albert Wesker, a role previous played by Jason O'Mara. Describing the character Roberts said, "Chairman of the Umbrella Corporation. He is in a position of power. He pretty much runs the world, and Alice is an annoyance. It's a whole process: I get to set and wardrobe gives me this big, long black jacket, and props comes over and gives me the dark glasses and the gloves. By the time you are all dressed you stand a little straighter, you walk a little differently. He's got everything going for him—he's super fast, super strong, has the ability to regenerate—it's all the elements from the game. That was one thing we all agreed on from the start: this character has to be for the fans."[17] Sienna Guillory reprises her role as Jill Valentine, who was last seen in Resident Evil: Apocalypse.[18] She is featured briefly in a scene shown during the credits, setting up the sequel.

Cinematography and set design

Anderson was shown footage of James Cameron's Avatar which sold him on the idea to shoot Resident Evil: Afterlife in digital 3D. He shot in high-definition with an aspect ratio of 2:35:1[19] using Cameron's Fusion Camera System, or more specifically a Sony F35 camera.[20] The crew spent two weeks in pre-production learning the 3D camera system.[21] With a budget of about $60 million,[22][23][24] principal photography took place for 55 days[19] from September 29, 2009[25] to December.[26] Filming in 3D added 20% to the budget.[27] Roberts began filming his scenes on October 10, 2009.[17] The final showdown scene was filmed for about six days.[19] During production Jovovich accidentally shot out a $100,000 camera.[28]

For slow motion scenes like with bullets and drops of water, twin Phantom high-speed cameras were used which filmed 200 frames per second.[31] A fight scene with Wesker and Chris in the Resident Evil 5 game was recreated shot-by-shot for the film and the Phantom cameras were used to create Wesker's superhuman speed which took about two days to film.[16] The added size and weight of the 3D cameras meant the filmmakers were not able to use existing equipment such as Steadicam rigs. Instead the camera operator worked on a Segway to achieve the look of a Steadicam shot.[31] Much of the action scenes were shot in front of a green screen.[28] A 1983 Yak-52 was used throughout the film by Jovovich and Larter. Stunt pilot Martin Mattes was dressed like Jovovich and flew the plane for the camera.[32]

The 3D cameras were unable to pick up anything shiny, such as stainless steel, due to a flare. Set decorator Cal Loucks said that most items that looked metal were actually painted silver with special paint to remove its reflective quality. The saturation of colors also had to be changed to accustom the 3D cameras, which are "slow to pick up information". Loucks said, " It's a very restrictive color palette. For example, in this warehouse scene, we saturated the floors in a dark, dark charcoal, and we thought that was enough, but then the cameras showed them as still being too light. So we had to add more and more black. The reason I say it's too light is because we are putting more light onto these sets than we ever have before".[33]

Filming locations

Principal photography was done mostly at Cinespace Film Studios in Toronto, Ontario.[34] Toronto police received hundreds of calls from concerned neighbors after a scene involving a burning plane crashed.[29] For the underwater scenes, cargo shipping containers were cut and welded to make a giant tank on stage.[27] The opening scene was filmed at the Shibuya Crossing in Shibuya, Tokyo.[31] Interior scenes of Umbrella Coropation's subterranean lair were filmed at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy.[30] Robarts Library was used to portray exterior shots of a Los Angeles prison due to its resemblance to a prison and other scenes were shot at University of Toronto Scarborough.[29] Scenes portraying an Alaskan aircraft boneyard were actually filmed at Oshawa Airport. A location depicting an Alaskan beach was filmed at Sandbanks Provincial Park.[35] Second unit was sent to Alaska to capture establishing shots of the scenery.[36]

Visual and special effects

Visual effects were done by Rocket Science VFX and Mr. X Inc. Paul Jones served as the special effects creator, who previously designed the Nemesis character in Resident Evil: Apocalypse. The production team planned to use 300 extras to portray zombies at once, but time restraints prevented that. Around 150 zombies were eventually used and Mr. X Inc's visual effects supervisor, Dennis Berardi, added more in post-production.[37] For Alice's clones they shot motion control photography for multiple passes of Jovovich. For the wide shots they took digital photo doubles.[38] Visual effects production manager Eric Roberston described the look of the film, "interesting contrasts, pure whites, which is a staggering look. It's so clean and tight along with some real darkness too that may evoke a bit of a feel of Silent Hill. So we've got the extremes, but it's definitely a unique look for this incarnation and it's been fun to see those looks".[39] A burned cityscape with ash and smoke in the sky was created to depict a postapocalyptic Los Angeles, in which most of the film is set in. Bolt described this approach as, " In a world that has gone to hell in a handbasket, there's no control and no fire service, so clearly, what’s going to happen to LA is it's going to get burned". [40]

The infected dobermans from the games and previous films return, but are more advanced. The dogs wore a costume with prosthetics.[41] Anderson wanted to make the dogs in this film look "absolutely terrible".[41] Computer effects was used to make the dog's jaw flare open, with tentacles coming out of their mouths similar to the dogs from the fourth and fifth video games.[42][43] Other creatures borrowed from the fifth video game are the "Majini" who are more intelligent and have mandibles and tentacles coming out of their mouths, and "The Executioner" (named the Axeman in the film).[42][39][44]

Release

In August 2009 it was announced that the film would be released on August 27, 2010,[45] but that December it was set back to January 14, 2011.[46] In January 2010, it was announced that the release date was moved to September 10, 2010.[47] Screen Gems paid Constantin Film, Davis Films and Impact Pictures $52 million for the rights to distribute the film in North American and "most key foreign markets".[48]

On April 3, 2010, Anderson, Jovovich and Larter attended WonderCon for a Resident Evil: Afterlife panel answering fan questions.[49] On July 24, 2010, they attended the San Diego Comic-Con International to promote the film.[28]

Soundtrack

Further information: Discography of the Resident Evil film series

The Resident Evil: Afterlife: Music from the Motion Picture was composed by tomandandy and released on September 28, 2010 by Milan Records.[50]

In addition to the original soundtrack, "The Outsider" (Apocalypse Remix) by alternative metal group A Perfect Circle was used for the marketing the film, along with a short segment of it being played during the confrontation between Alice and Wesker, as well as playing over the end credits.

Home media

Resident Evil: Afterlife was released to DVD, Blu-ray, and Blu-ray 3D on December 28, 2010 in the United States. Special features on the DVD includes a filmmaker commentary and two featurettes. The Blu-ray releases includes the same and also with deleted and extended scenes, additional featurettes and outtakes.[51]

Box office

United States and Canada

Resident Evil: Afterlife opened on approximately 4,700 screens in 3,203 locations with 2,062 of the locations showing on 3D-equipped screens and 141 in IMAX 3D, ranking as one of the largest 3D releases at the time.[52] In Canada the film opened in additional 250 theaters through Alliance Films.[53] The film opened at number one and took in $10.7 million on its opening day and $26.6 million on its opening weekend.[54][55] By its second weekend the film had dropped to fourth place with new release The Town taken its first place spot. It grossed $10 million, a 63% decrease in ticket sales from its opening weekend.[56] It fell to seventh place by its third weekend, grossing $4.9 million and was removed from 567 theaters.[57] On its fourth weekend Resident Evil: Afterlife moved to eleventh place with the new release Case 39 taken its spot while grossing $2.7 million and being dropped from 735 theaters.[58] For the film's fifth weekend it made $1.2 million a 54% decrease from the previous weekend and was removed from an additional 895 theaters.[59] For its sixth, seventh and eight weekend it had dropped to $347,264, $137,502 and $70,474, respectively and was playing in 140 theaters by its eight and final weekend.[60] The film closed out of theaters on November 4, 2010 after 56 days of release.[61]

Other territories

On September 15, Resident Evil: Afterlife opened in 30 territories taking Inception's first place and grossing $42.3 million from 3,559 screens with 81% accounted for 3D earnings. It was also the largest overseas debut of the series. More than one-third of the total came from a $15.5 million three-day launch in Japan. In Russia it grossed $6.4 million, $3.3 million in Spain, $2.95 million in Taiwan and $2.6 million in the United Kingdom.[62] During its second weekend the film grossed $40 million with $5.3 million being in Germany, $3.2 million in Mexico, $3.1 million in South Korea and $2.9 million in Brazil.

For its second weekend, Japan grossed $5.1 million and Russia with $4.2 million. By September 19 it had passed Resident Evil: Extinction's $97.1 million overseas total. The following day it had out-grossed Extinction's worldwide total with $103.2 million overseas and $148.8 million worldwide and became the highest-grossing entry of the series.[63] In its third weekend, it stayed at number one grossing $24.3 million, opening in France with $3.5 million and Hong Kong with $768,324.[64] The film remained at number one for its fourth weekend grossing $15.6 million.[65] On its fifth weekend it grossed $8 million dropping to fifth place losing to Eat Pray Love.[66] Though on its eleventh weekend it grossed $9.1 million, with $9 million coming from its opening in China.[66] Resident Evil: Afterlife fell short of approximately $1.5 million to equal the previous three film's international grosses combined.[67]

Worldwide overview

The film has grossed $60 million in the United States and Canada, with $236 million in other markets for a worldwide total of $296 million.[61] In the United States, the high box office gross was attributed to the ticket price inflation of the 3D presentation, but the film had the lowest opening weekend attendance of the film series.[68] On November 23, 2010 Resident Evil: Afterlife, became the most successful production in Canadian feature film history.[2]

Release date
(United States)		 Budget
(estimated)[61]		 Box office revenue[61]
United States/Canada Other markets Worldwide
September 10, 2010 $60,000,000 $60,128,566 $236,093,097 $296,221,663

Reception

Critical response

Resident Evil: Afterlife was not screened in advance for critics,[69] but received mostly negative reviews. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 24% of 87 critics have given the film a positive review, with a rating average of 4.1 out of 10.[70] Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an average score of 37 based on 14 reviews.[71] CinemaScore polls reported that the average grade moviegoers gave the film was a B minus on an A plus to F scale.[48]

Michael Ordoña of the Los Angeles Times gave it a positive review, noting the slower cut of the film and saying "the action is easier to read than in most films of the genre, and therefore more enjoyable. Anderson makes particular use of sets and locations to wring out more bang for the stereoscopic buck".[72]Phelim O'Neill of The Guardian gave the film two stars out of five praising the use of 3D, while stating that The Resident Evil films "always look good and have well-staged action, but they don't have one iota of originality or imagination".[73] Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times gave the film a negative review, saying "Cannibalizing John Carpenter's Thing and much of the sci-fi-horror canon, Afterlife is more moribund than its thronging undead.[74] David Edwards of the Daily Mirror gave a negative review of the film, comparing it to Resident Evil: Extinction stating that the "results are even less impressive, which is saying quite something" and "only fans of the series will care with the film looking suspiciously like a series of barely connected action scenes and unimpressive 3D welded to a who-the-hell-cares? plot".[75]

Andrew Barker of Variety compared the film to the previous installment as "equally moribund, and perhaps even more shamelessly derivative". He compared Robert's Wesker to Hugo Weaving's Agent Smith from The Matrix calling it a "slipshod impression".[76] Chicago Reader's Andrea Gronvall described the plot as "nearly indiscernible" but did called the film the "sleekest so far, thanks to 3D and star Milla Jovovich's body-hugging catsuit".[77] A particularly scathing review came from Brian Orndorf of Dark Horizons, who commented: "Perhaps the first 3D motion picture to simulate the experience of watching paint dry, Resident Evil: Afterlife is a dreadful bore that only occasionally comes to life".[78] Spill.com critics Corey Koleman and Co-Host 3000 gave the film a "Some ol bullshit", the site's lowest rating. They criticized the film's overuse of slow motion, lack of explanation of certain plot elements, and long lapses in between action, but gave the film points for its cinematography, 3D, and the special effects of the Axeman.[79]

Accolades

Awards
Award Category Recipients and nominees Result
People's Choice Awards[80] Favourite Horror Movie Resident Evil: Afterlife Nominated
Genie Awards[81] Best Achievement in Art Direction/Production Design Resident Evil:Afterlife
Arv Greywal		 Nominated
Best Achievement in Costume Design Resident Evil:Afterlife
Denise Cronenberg		 Nominated
Best Achievement in Make-Up Resident Evil:Afterlife
Paul Jones, Leslie Sebert, Vincent Sullivan		 Nominated
Best Achievement in Overall Sound Resident Evil:Afterlife
Mark Zsifkovits		 Nominated
Best Achievement in Sound Editing Resident Evil:Afterlife
Stephen Barden, Steve Baine, Kevin Banks, Alex Bullick, Jill Purdy		 Nominated
Golden Reel Award Resident Evil: Afterlife Won
Scream Awards[82] Best Science Fiction Actress Milla Jovovich Won

See also

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