Thread by @VespertilioGem

Today on #Kissmatewatches, we're continuing the Resident Evil film series! Written and directed by Paul W S Anderson, we're watching "Resident Evil: Retribution" (2012).
The last one was fun with cheesy writing, so I'm hoping for something similar. Just a nice popcorn flick.

Don't forget this is a double team with AnaMardoll!

https://twitter.com/AnaMardoll/status/1296136744207867904

#Kissmatewatches I did notice something interesting last movie. Wesker said he needed Alice's blood to become stable with the T Virus. After she was stabbed in the fight, she stabbed him with the same knife. Meaning she stabbed her blood into his brain. I'm hoping he comes back!

#Kissmatewatches We start with Alice underwater, floating gently to the top. Oooh, it's backwards! Umbrella stormed Arcadia and shot people, and blew it up. Then we get Alice's backstory via clipshow. It feels like her video logs from the last movie, so that's a cool tie-in.

#Kissmatewatches She wakes up in... a normal life? Todd (Oliveria?) for a husband, she's blonde, a daughter late for school, even a comfortable bedroom. Dafaq??
Oh! The daughter is deaf and is using sign language! Oh! Oh! Oh! That's so cool!

#Kissmatewatches OH SHIT, ZOMBIES ATE TODD. Alice breaks the ceiling to get Becky (daughter) in the attic. Good ideas are happening here! Sadly, even after escaping and hiding in another house, Alice didn't make it. We don't see what happens to Becky.

#Kissmatewatches Odd enough, that whole scene felt like it was Becky's backstory, but with past actors in place of who would actually go there. Becky was the only new actress in that whole flashback. So that's going to be brought up again, and I can't wait to see where it goes!

#Kissmatewatches Alice wakes up as herself on an Umbrella logo, mostly naked. What is it with Umbrella making Alice go with as little on as possible?

#Kissmatewatches Jill, taken over by Umbrella, interrogates Alice with robotic questions and ear-bleeding noises. After Alice gives up nothing, a security system reboot gives her a way out and TIGHT leather get-up. She escapes to a simulated room of Tokyo.

#Kissmatewatches All that room lead to was Zoms now attacking and chasing Alice, and a badass fight scene that I hope there's more of later in the film.

#Kissmatewatches Alice gets to Umbrella Central Control. All the employees look dead, but she gets a nice little weapon's cache! OH SHIT, ADA WONG IS ATTACKING HER! ADA!!!

#Kissmatewatches Something to note here:
Li Bingbing is playing Ada Wong. An Asian woman playing an Asian character is always nice. But she's been dubbed over by Ada's original voice actress, Sally Cahill. PWSA said he wanted more of Ada's feel in the movie, so changed the voice.

#Kissmatewatches I listened to a few interviews of Li Bingbing and she's not hard to understand. PWSA didn't dub over Jill or Claire or Chris. I'm surprised that this one POC is dubbed, but not any of the white ones. It feels wrong to know this, but it needs to be known.

#Kissmatewatches Wesker refuses to work for Umbrella anymore (but he was in control of it???). We don't know his reasons, but he and Ada are trying to get Alice out of Umbrella's underwater testing prison in the Russian arctic.

#Kissmatewatches Umbrella is amazing. Hundreds of secret underground/water facilities. Impressive cloning tech. Made a secret bio-arms race by selling the T-Virus. Everything made is stylish and Apple white. Money is never an object, yet labor is near impossible to get. How? HOW?

#Kissmatewatches LEON and BARRY show up with Luther!
Leon kinda sounds right, but he doesn't have that boyish face I recognize. And Barry looks fresh out of college, not the grizzled veteran I'm used to. I'm giving them a chance, but they're on thin ice. (Get it? Cause Arctic?)

#Kissmatewatches We learn Red Queen has control of Umbrella now, which seems very OOC for her. That and I thought she was destroyed in the first movie.
Either way, she's our enemy for this film. I guess it explains away a computer biologically hacking into Jill. Not why, though.

#Kissmatewatches Alice and Ada fight off two Executioners, which is BADASS. We learn the simulations are run on all clones. So there's basic models based on all the Umbrella employees, I'm guessing? But what about Becky? Clones based on a deaf girl? Can I ask why?

#Kissmatewatches Clones running around and us wondering if the characters we're watching are clones feels like RE6 to me, and that's not the best one to base your movie off of. But then neither was RE5 and they still based some things off that.

#Kissmatewatches Can I just say the Strike Team (Luther, Barry, Leon) feels just like a RE cutscene? The dialogue, the tonal inflections, the characters. They all feel so familiar.
If only we got more of them in awesome fight scenes and not just falling back from a hoard.

#Kissmatewatches Jill's team looks a lot like Alice's old friends, especially from the first movie. It doesn't bother Alice too much. Another clone catches up with Alice and Becky, and is now Babysitter Rain.

#Kissmatewatches Alice picks up the Strike Team in a BITCHING fight sequence. Car chases! Finally! It's cool to see Barry and Leon kicking ass. Luther makes for a fun character too! Just... not enough of them, I guess.

#Kissmatewatches On the elevator, Becky gets captured by a MegaLicker (not killed why?). Sitter Rain gets 86ed. Barry was almost a Licker sandwich. Luther's been hit. And the elevator lost power. It's up to Alice to save Becky, though not sure what the plan is for the elevator.

#Kissmatewatches Alice kills MegaLicker in the most Ad Wong way possible, finds some grenades, and gets Becky out of there. Barry dies, but with the most Big Dick Energy possible, so a step up from the games, IIRC. Also, Ada is a prisoner of Jill. Wonder how long that will last.

#Kissmatewatches Alice finds the clone factory. It's a little unsettling, ngl. Another Ada Wong-esque killing of another Mega Licker (why not given to Ada?).
Becky freaks out at the clones and asks if Alice is her mother. "I am now," Alice responds. Honest and heartwrenching.

#Kissmatewatches The bomb explodes up top, flooding the testing chambers. Wait, does that make the Red Queen Glados? No. No, that would be stupid.
Alice and Becky make it to the surface with Leon and Luther. They drive off in the snow, but then the ice breaks! Because submarine!

#Kissmatewatches Jill, Ada, and Rain2 walk out. Rain2 juices herself up with Las Plagas and can now shit bullets if she gets shot. It's pretty gross AND cool.
Jill and Alice fight while Leon and Luther take on Plagas Rain. Let's see how this fight turns out!

#Kissmatewatches Luther's dead. Jill's chest piece got destroyed. Rain2 gets eaten by zoms. Alice is somehow not dead. And Ada was knocked out for all of that. I'm am pissed that Ada was pretty much a hostage and unused throughout the whole movie. Like, one fight and done! Fuck!

#Kissmatewatches Ada was so criminally underused! You got the effing VA to dub the lines for her, and then NEVER USED HER! Fuck me, PWSA, why go through all the trouble if she was only going to be useful for 30 minutes?! Eat me! She wasn't even used in the final effing fight!

#Kissmatewatches Alice and Co get to the White House safely and- OMFG, Wesker's in the Oval Office looking like the Big Dick he is! He gives her back her powers so she can fight for him against the Red Queen, to protect humanity for good.

#Kissmatewatches We see how fucked the last of humanity is, surrounded by demonic creatures and the undead prepared to eat the last of the living. "This is the beginning of the end."

Thus... the end, for now.

#Kissmatewatches All in all, this was kind of fun, but there are some behind-the-scene issues that kill the fun. Barry and Leon grew on me and I ended up liking them for what they were.

6/10, would rather have the first or fourth movie on, but this is easily my third pick.

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