Resident Evil: Extinction DVD Review

By Prairie Miller

Female Chauvinist As Dressed To Kill Biker Babe

Zombies may be eating the human race alive in Resident Evil: Extinction, but no movie reviewer, however cutting their criticism, could ever take a bite out of this baby sailing right on through box office heaven. And the same surely goes for the DVD release.

This third game-to-screen bloody fleshfest is under new management, with Aussie Russell Mulcahy (The Shadow, Ricochet) directing. Penned by Paul W.S. Anderson, Resident Evil: Extinction finds good Samaritan, shapely female chauvinist virus-resistant, dressed to kill biker babe Milla Jovovich and gutsy nomadic survivors stalking legions of eating disorder zombies in the Nevada Desert, while taking a gamble on a stopover in an obliterated Vegas.

Banding together to surmount a whole host of messy new challenges like birds of a feather cannibalistic crows, while stressed out scientists huddle underground mulling solutions, are ready-to-rumble thesps Oded Fehr, Mike Epps, Ali Larter, Spencer Locke, and Ashanti as Nurse Betty. Rarely has mass murder been so dull. Pass the smelling salts.

SONY Pictures Home Entertainment
Rated R

DVD Features:
*Deleted Scenes
*Sneak Peek at Resident Evil: Degeneration, the first Resident Evil CGI feature film
*Filmmakers Commentary
* The Making Of Featurettes:
Alice Vision: Preproduction
The Big Bang: Shooting Resident Evil: Extinction
Bigger, Faster, Stronger: The Undead Evolve
Vegas Visual Effects: Miniatures

There are also new features exclusively on the Blu-Ray version. This will be the first disc to offer Picture-in-Picture. This feature includes interviews, storyboards and other items that play simultaneously with the feature, in a separate window. The Blu-Ray disc also contains the Blu-wizard 2.0, which allows viewers to create a playlist to customize the special features available.

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will also release the Resident Evil Trilogy on Blu-ray Disc the same day. That will include Resident Evil, Resident Evil: Apocalypse and Resident Evil: Extinction in one set.