Anyway, “Afterlife” picks up shortly after the third Resident Evil left off, the Alice clones attempt to kill CEO of the Umbrella Corporation at his underground base in Japan. All the clones are killed in an explosion as the CEO escapes in a troop transport plane thing. The original Alice ambushes him, but Wesker (the CEO) injects her with a serum that neutralizes the T-virus in her system, eliminating her superhuman powers and making her human again. What the fuck? They give her the powers for one fucking film? I hate when filmmakers do a sequel and want to do a certain thing but because of an existing plotline they are prevented to do what they want, so they drastically change things. Kinda like bringing twitchy j fox’s girlfriend to the future and leaving her on the porch. Anyway, Before Wesker can kill Alice, the aircraft crashes and Alice emerges alone from the wreckage. But it’s unclear how she survives, since her powers are gone. Plus, the girl still seems to be pretty damn superhuman-ish for the rest of the movie as far as I can tell.
Months later, Alice follows a repeating emergency broadcast from a survivors' safe haven known as "Arcadia". (remember the last films’ characters were on their way to Alaska?) Stopping on an abandoned beach, Alice finds the helicopter that was taken by Claire and the others when they and Alice parted ways in the previous film. A crazed Claire (that crazy mirror chick from “Heroes“), under the influence of an Umbrella Corporation device attached to her chest ( which looks like the beetle thing from Disney’s Aladdin) attacks her. Alice removes the device, finding that it has damaged Claire's memory. Claire slowly regains bits and pieces ( which is annoying because it‘s just a plot device put in there so we don‘t know the plot in the first half hour of the film.), remembering that soldiers of the Umbrella Corporation ambushed their group when they landed on the beach, attaching the devices to them, though she managed to escape.
Flying a two-person plane, they enter the ruins of Los Angeles (for reasons not shared with the audience) and find a small group of (annoying) survivors living in a maximum security prison, surrounded by zombies. They land the plane on the roof, which had me wondering why?, why the fuck did she risk ruining her plane?
On the roof, Alice learns that Arcadia is actually an oil tanker just off the coast. Since the plane cannot take more than two, Alice and the survivors try to figure out a means to make it to Arcadia together. The survivors are a Douche film producer, his Asian intern, a hot chick, a basketball player, an old guy and a mechanic. I’d talk more about these characters, but really, they’re mostly just fodder for the eventual zombie break-in. There’s not a whole lot going on with “Resident Evil: Afterlife” in terms of character set-up, but honestly, there’s not a whole lot going on in the film itself.
They have been keeping watch on a prisoner, Chris ( who is in the film for no reason), whom they found locked in a maximum security cell when they arrived.
Alice and survivors are out of time to find a means to reach Arcadia ( because this tall zombie gentleman with a huge axe) so they decide to free Chris and use his escape route. Chris recognizes Claire and reveals himself as her brother, though she does not remember him( again, this doesn’t matter to the plot at all, Claire’s relationship with Chris is badly not addressed really, and the two never look or act like anything other than two strangers trapped in a movie together.). Chris' proposed escape method is a stored military vehicle on the first floor, but the vehicle is not operational and they are left with no other option but to use the zombies' tunnel to escape into the sewers, which empties into the coast. The group fights off many zombies in a not very exciting manor. Alice, Claire, and Chris emerging as the only survivors ( who would have thought?) and escape into the sewers.
They continue to Arcadia, finding the ship completely functional, but abandoned. They realize that it is a trap set by Umbrella to lure survivors to the ship to conduct experiments on them in order to find a cure or way to control the zombies. They release the survivors, among them K-Mart ( was this character so beloved that they hade to have a meaningless cameo?), and Alice continues deeper, finding escape helicopters and a purging bomb. Deeper inward, she finds Wesker, who explains that he has been infected by the T-virus, mutating him and granting him super human abilities, but finds it difficult to control. By eating Alice, the only individual to bond successfully with the T-virus, he will be able to gain full mastery of the T-virus. Chris, Claire, and Alice battle Wesker, but he escapes into a helicopter and activates the purging bomb to blow up and kill everyone aboard the Arcadia ship. However, he finds that Alice hid the bomb aboard the helicopter and it is destroyed. During the purging bomb's explosion, a parachute falling from the sky goes unnoticed by Alice, Claire, and Chris... hinting that Wesker may still be alive, *sigh*.
Alice resolves to turn Arcadia into a real safe haven and broadcasts its message for any other survivors. As Claire, Chris, and Alice decide how to proceed with all the survivors, they see an approaching Umbrella assault fleet preparing to take them out.
To be continued.......? Probably. *ugh*
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