Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, by Albert W. Vogt III
Remember everything I said about Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016) about it being a lie if you thought it was the last entry in the franchise? Well, if Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021) is any indication, then that turned out to be true and not true. When it comes to such conundrums,…
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, by Albert W. Vogt III
With a title like Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016), it would not be unreasonable to expect it to be, in fact, the final chapter. With this franchise, such notions are all but meaningless. The apocalypse seems to happen after every one of these films, only to have something else be the real end in…
Resident Evil: Retribution, by Albert W. Vogt III
There is a moment in Resident Evil: Retribution (2012) when franchise stalwart Alice (Milla Jovovich) is confronted by the artificial intelligence (AI) known as the Red Queen (voiced by Ava Merson-O’Brian). The computer program controlling yet another of the evil Umbrella corporation’s underground facilities (though this one is actually underwater) tells Alice that she and…
Resident Evil: Afterlife, by Albert W. Vogt III
The fourth installment in the Resident Evil franchise is Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010), and I may be running out of ideas as to how to describe these films. Then again, the same thing can be said of the people who made them. With the video games on which they are based, it is less of…
Heart of the Beast, by Albert W. Vogt III
With a title like Heart of the Beast, a Catholic reviewer might have some reservations. Perhaps I am making much out of nothing, but any time the word “beast” is mentioned, it carries connotations of the devil. Luckily, the story has nothing to do with the evil one. If it had, I probably would not…
Resident Evil: Extinction, by Albert W. Vogt III
What would make the Resident Evil franchise ever so slightly easier to follow would be if they numbered their movies like most other series of films. Granted, Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977), arguably the granddaddy of all franchise starters, had a confusing title, but they got straightened out eventually. Resident Evil:…
Resident Evil: Apocalypse, by Albert W. Vogt III
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) is the sequel to 2002’s Resident Evil, a cinematic version of a line of popular video games. Because of the success of the first installment, they figured they had a franchise in the making, so they greenlit Resident Evil: Apocalypse. As a practicing Catholic, I get uncomfortable with words like “evil”…
