Taglines: The ultimate battle begins.
In this fifth Resident Evil film, picking up immediately after the events in the previous film (Resident Evil: Afterlife), 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’s been brainwashed by Umbrella through a scarab device attached to her chest.
The Umbrella troops kill many people on the freighter. Alice opens fire on the aerial armada and hits one airship, causing it to crash into Arcadia, resulting in an explosion that knocks her out and into the water. The fates of Chris, Claire, K-Mart and the rest of the people on board remains ambiguous.
The story switches to a suburban housewife who appears to be Alice living with her husband Todd (Oded Fehr) and deaf daughter Becky (Aryana Engineer). Zombies attack, revealing the suburbia is actually Raccoon City during the contamination. Alice and Becky escape to the streets and are rescued by a student, 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 hides Becky, but is killed by a zombified Todd.
The original Alice awakens to see she’s been captured. Jill interrogates Alice, who unsuccessfully tries jogging her memory, and demands to know what happened to Chris, Claire, and K-Mart. During a power failure, Alice escapes her cell and the laser grid, finding herself on the Shibuya Square, just at the beginning of the Tokyo contamination. Fighting her way out, she returns into the facility, and encounters Ada Wong (Li Bingbing), one of Albert Wesker’s (Shawn Roberts) top agents.
Ada explains they no longer serve Umbrella. Wesker appears on a screen, revealing the Red Queen, who was reactivated after the contamination of The Hive, now controls Umbrella. Ada explains the base is underwater, located in Kamchatka, Russia, that served as a former Soviet outpost; as the Hive was designed in producing the T-Virus, the base was designed by Umbrella in manufacturing clones and created simulated outbreaks to show the effect of the T-virus, and thus selling it at high price around the world.
To infiltrate the base from outside and help Alice and Ada escape, Wesker has organized a freelance team: 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, to ensure the base’s destruction. The group plans to meet with Alice and Ada in the Raccoon City suburbia. In a New York City simulation, Alice and Ada defeat two Axemen, prompting the Red Queen to send Jill after them next. Leon and his team enter a Moscow simulation, but are cut off by armed Las Plagas zombies.
Resident Evil: Retribution is a 2012 action horror film written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson. A direct sequel to Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010), it is the fifth installment in the Resident Evil film series, which is loosely based on the video game series of the same name, and the third to be written and directed by Anderson after the first film and the previous installment.
Cast and Characters
Milla Jovovich as Alice, former Umbrella security officer turned rogue fighter, who was captured by Umbrella scientists after the Hive contamination and experimented upon. Since the T-virus outbreak incident at Raccoon City that spread across the globe, she has bonded with the virus on a cellular level, granting her with powerful superhuman abilities that was taken from her in the previous film.
She also swears vengeance against Umbrella for the deaths of her allies and the catastrophe which they have caused. Umbrella cloned Alice multiple times, including a suburban wife version married to Carlos, used in the simulations set in the Suburbia sector of the Umbrella test facility.
Sienna Guillory as Jill Valentine, former S.T.A.R.S member and police officer of Raccoon City, who helped Alice during the escape from the city and went missing after the incident. She was later captured by Umbrella, brainwashed through the scarab device attached to her chest, and programmed to capture Alice and Ada.
Michelle Rodriguez as Rain Ocampo, a member of the original Umbrella strike team that was sent into the Hive, but died while helping Alice and the other survivors escape. Umbrella later created two clone versions of her to use in their simulations, an aggressive version used to hunt Alice down in the Umbrella test facility, and a friendly suburban version who helped both the suburban Alice clone and the real Alice.
Aryana Engineer as Becky, a clone who plays the role of suburban Alice clone’s deaf daughter, and is later rescued by the real Alice.
Shawn Roberts as Albert Wesker, a former head of Umbrella Corporation who went rogue; recognizing Alice’s role in the fate of humanity, he reluctantly join forces with her and organizes a freelance team to assist Alice and Ada in escaping from the facility.
Li Bingbing as Ada Wong, a former operative of Umbrella and one of Wesker’s top agents who no longer serves Umbrella Corporation and assists Alice during her escape from the facility.
Johann Urb as Leon S. Kennedy, the leader of the rescue team sent by Wesker to help Alice escape from the Umbrella test facility.
Boris Kodjoe as Luther West, one of Alice’s former allies, who survived the outbreak in Los Angeles and is now a member of Wesker’s rescue team.
Oded Fehr as former Umbrella soldier turned rogue fighter Carlos Oliveira, one of Alice’s closest allies, and love interest, who helped her since the escape from the city. He later sacrificed himself in order to help the other survivors in the Nevada desert. Umbrella created two clone versions of him to use in their simulations: one is part of Jill’s team used to hunt Alice down in the Umbrella test facility, the other plays the role of suburban Alice clone’s husband and Becky’s father.
Kevin Durand as Barry Burton, a member of the rescue team sent by Wesker to help Alice escape from the Umbrella test facility.
Colin Salmon as James “One” Shade, leader of the original Umbrella strike team sent into the Hive. He was killed by the Red Queen while attempting to shut her down. After his death, Umbrella used his DNA to clone him and put him in Jill’s team which hunts Alice down in the Umbrella test facility.
Megan Charpentier as The Red Queen, the renegade artificial intelligence who controls the Umbrella facility, and Alice’s nemesis, who is plotting to destroy humanity.
Mika Nakashima as J-Pop Girl, one of the biohazard creatures first clones who was infected and used in the Tokyo sector of the Umbrella test facility.
vResident Evil: Retribution (2012)
Directed by: Paul W.S. Anderson
Starring: Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Kevin Durand, Sienna Guillory, Shawn Roberts, Aryana Engineer, Oded Fehr, Colin Salmon, Johann Urb, Boris Kodjoe, Li Bingbing, Kevin Durand
Screenplay by: Paul W.S. Anderson
Production Design by: Kevin Phipps
Cinematography by: Glen MacPherson
Film Editing by: Niven Howie
Costume Design by: Wendy Partridge
Set Decoration by: Steve Shewchuk
Art Direction by: Dan Yarhi
Music by: tomandandy
MPAA Rating: R for sequences of strong violence throughout.
Distributed by: Sony ScreenGems
Release Date: September 14, 2012
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