"You can't keep a good zombie franchise down. You can't even keep a mediocre zombie franchise down."
Resident Evil: Retribution, the 5th film in the Resident Evil series released last Friday earned top box office honors this week with $21.2 million, HOWEVER was considered "a piece of crap" and "the worst of the series" by movie viewers and critics, it's wonderful "to know that mindless video game-adaption zombie horror can still come out on top"!
The original debut of Resident Evil in 2002 (a four part film series based on Capcom's survival horror video games) has made almost $650 million in box office ticket sales. Many fans of the Resident Evil games dislike the big screen adaptions for being "overblown and hollow action flicks" that bypass the original story-lines. But, each Resident Evil film had brought in a higher box office gross than the movie before it. So the soul question was "will Resident Evil: Retribution deliver a film that fans of both the games and movies enjoy?" Ahh... and the answer is NO! Many fans disliked this film the most of all in the series.
I can speak from personal experience... since I did go to the viewing last Friday, and I would have to agree with many critics, it was a let down. I personally thought it was too video game-like enhanced, the acting was terrible, and at some parts very cheesy. So I was a little dissapointed, but I would still love to watch the first 4 of the series!
http://screenrant.com/resident-evil-retribution-reviews/