The film follows Alice searching and rescuing the remaining survivors in Los Angeles after the T-virus outbreak, and teaming up against Albert Wesker, the head of the Umbrella Corporation. Chris Redfield, a primary character from the video games, was featured for the first time in the film franchise. Other characters from the games and films who returned are: Claire Redfield, Chris' sister who has lost her memory prior to the film's events; Albert Wesker, the film's primary antagonist; and Jill Valentine, who appeared in a cameo appearance.
In May 2005, producers mentioned the possibility of following Extinction with a sequel titled Afterlife. Extinction was released in 2007 and was a box office success prompting Afterlife to begin development in June 2008, with the script being written by Anderson that December. Elements from the video game Resident Evil 5 (2009) were incorporated into the film. Filming took place in Toronto from September to December 2009 using the 3D Fusion Camera System.
The film was released in 3D and IMAX 3D theaters on September 10, 2010. The film grossed $60 million in the United States and Canada on an estimated $60 million budget, and made $236 million in other markets surpassing the previous film's overseas total in the second week of release. Grossing a worldwide total of $296 million, Resident Evil: Afterlife became the highest-grossing entry of the series with the overseas total almost equaling the previous films' overseas total combined. Resident Evil: Afterlife was released to DVD, Blu-ray, and Blu-ray 3D on December 28, 2010 in the United States.
Plot
Alice clones (Milla Jovovich) attempt to kill Albert Wesker (Shawn Roberts) at his base in Tokyo. Wesker escapes and destroys the base, killing all of the clones. However, the real Alice boarded his aircraft beforehand. Wesker uses a serum to remove all of Alice's powers before the lack of a pilot makes the aircraft crash. Alice parachutes to safety while Wesker seemingly perishes.Six months later, Alice travels back to North America in an airplane following emergency broadcasts from a safe haven known as Arcadia in Alaska (written of in the diary she found in the previous film). En route to Alaska, Alice is attacked by Claire Redfield (Ali Larter); after the attack, Alice destroys the device controlling Claire (placed on her by Umbrella) and discovers Claire has amnesia. The two travel to the ruins of Los Angeles in a Yak-52 plane, where they find a group of survivors living in a prison surrounded by the infected. Luther West (Boris Kodjoe), leads the small band which includes Wendell (Fulvio Cecere), Crystal Waters (Kacey Barnfield), Bennett (Kim Coates) and Kim Yong (Norman Yeung), Angel Ortiz (Sergio Peris-Mencheta), and Chris Redfield (Wentworth Miller), who is a prisoner under lockdown in the facility.
With their help, Alice lands her plane on the roof of the prison and learns that Arcadia is not a fixed place but actually a cargo tanker traveling along the coast. Alice and the survivors decide to find an alternate means to make it to the Arcadia. Chris reveals he's Claire's brother, insisting he is not a prisoner but actually a soldier who fell victim to a cruel joke by some escaped prisoners; he claims to know an alternate route. While in the shower, Alice is attacked by a group of Majini infected that managed to tunnel into the prison. Wendell, who was trying to peep on Alice, is taken away/eaten by the zombies. Alice, seeing as they are out of options, decides to set Chris free and leave the prison.
Chris reveals that the prison keeps an armored car that can be used to escape. However, a giant axe-wielding monster begins breaking down the gate outside. To overcome the problems, Alice, Chris and Crystal go deeper into the prison to retrieve additional guns from the armory; Luther and Claire attempt to reinforce the gate to keep the Axeman and other zombies at bay. As Alice, Chris and Crystal make it to the armory, zombies swarm them, overpowering and devouring Crystal. Angel informs Bennett and Yong that the vehicle is missing its engine and it would take a week to fix. Panicking, Bennett shoots Angel, abandons Yong, and escapes with Alice's airplane. Below, the Axeman finally breaks down the gate, allowing the zombies outside to enter the facility. With no other choice, the group decides to use the zombie-dug tunnels to escape into the sewers. Yong is suddenly cut in half by the Axeman, whom Alice and Claire then face. Alice attempts to fight it first and it knocks her out; Claire then defends Alice and just before it kills her, Alice awakes and saves them both. The two meet back up with Chris at the end of the sewers but they lose Luther to a zombie who drags him back into the sewers.
Alice and the Redfields commandeer a boat and board the Arcadia, discovering it's functional but abandoned. Claire suddenly regains her memory, and reveals Arcadia was an Umbrella trap to gather survivors to be used as test subjects. The trio begin releasing survivors, among them K-Mart (Spencer Locke). Seeing a trail of blood leading from an empty test subject container, Alice follows it deeper into the ship. As she expected, Alice finds Wesker, brought back by the T-virus. However, Wesker is constantly battling the virus for control of his body, something he believes could be pacified by fresh human DNA; the Umbrella staff fled Aracadia in terror. Wesker reveals he plans to eat Alice, the only person to bond at a cellular level with the T-virus and successfully retain control, hoping it will give him the control he needs.
Chris and Claire arrive and attack Wesker while Alice battles two dogs and Bennett, who has allied himself with Wesker. Wesker easily overpowers Chris and Claire, but Alice is able to defeat both Bennett and Wesker with help from K-Mart. While leaving, they lock Bennett in the room with Wesker's corpse; Bennett is devoured by Wesker when he revives. Wesker then escapes in an aircraft, activating a bomb on the Arcadia. The plane explodes instead; Alice placed the bomb there, thinking it might be set off. Unbeknownst to them, a figure parachutes away from the explosion, while Luther emerges from the sewers, battered but alive. Alice resolves to turn Arcadia into a real safe haven and broadcasts a new message for any other survivors. Claire, Chris, K-Mart, and Alice soon see an approaching Umbrella assault helicopter squadron.
During the post-credits scene in one of the helicopters, Jill Valentine (Sienna Guillory), who went missing after Resident Evil: Apocalypse, is dictating the attack wearing the same mind control device used on Claire, which slightly glows at the end of the scene, thus setting up the events of Resident Evil: Retribution.
Cast
- Milla Jovovich as Alice; a former Umbrella Corporation security officer whose exposure to the T-Virus granted her superhuman abilities.
- Ali Larter as Claire Redfield; Chris' younger sister who led a convoy of survivors who encountered Alice in the previous film.
- Wentworth Miller as Chris Redfield; Claire's older brother who is working with an unnamed military organization combating the infected.
- Boris Kodjoe as Luther West; a former professional basketball player and the leader of the survivors of Los Angeles.
- Kim Coates as Bennett; a film producer and one of the survivors of Los Angeles
- Shawn Roberts as Albert Wesker; the Chairman of the Umbrella Corporation who possesses superhuman strength, speed, and regenerative capabilities.
- Spencer Locke as K-Mart; a young girl named after the department store where she was discovered hiding, and a member of Claire's convoy of survivors in the previous film.
- Kacey Barnfield as Crystal; a junior champ in swimming in her high school days, she came to Los Angeles to work as an actress and is one of the survivors.
- Norman Yeung as Kim Yong; Bennett's former intern before the virus outbreak.
- Sergio Peris-Mencheta as Angel Ortiz, a survivor in Los Angeles.
- Sienna Guillory as Jill Valentine; a former S.T.A.R.S. operative who assisted Alice and escaped Raccoon City in Resident Evil: Apocalypse.
- Mika Nakashima as J-Pop Girl; the first infected person in Tokyo from the opening scene who attacks a man.
- Ray Olubowale as the Axeman; a monster taken from the game Resident Evil 5 (known as The Executioner).
Production
Development
In May 2005, producers mentioned the possibility of following Extinction with a sequel entitled Afterlife, to be shot and set in Tokyo, Japan and Alaska.Despite Resident Evil: Extinction being billed on the official website and elsewhere as the final installment of the Resident Evil film series; on September 23, 2007, Rory Bruer, Sony's head of distribution explained, "It absolutely would not surprise me considering the success of the franchise that they find a way to come up with another. It's a real possibility." Producer Jeremy Bolt also stated that while there was no intention of making a fourth film, that the third had been particularly well done and that Paul Anderson was talking with Sony about the possibility.In June 2008, Anderson noted that negotiations were underway with Sony for creating the film. In December 2008, Anderson stated that he was working on the script. The following year, it was announced that Sony was aiming to release Resident Evil: Afterlife by August 27, 2010.
When Miller first read the script he thought the association to Prison Break was a practical joke with his imprisonment and his first line being, "I know a way out of here."
Release
In August 2009 it was announced that the film would be released on August 27, 2010, but that December it was set back to January 14, 2011. In January 2010, it was announced that the release date was moved to September 10, 2010. Screen Gems paid Constantin Film, Davis Films and Impact Pictures $52 million for the rights to distribute the film in North American and "most key foreign markets".
Milla Jovovich speaking at WonderCon 2010 about the film.
On April 3, 2010, Anderson, Jovovich and Larter attended WonderCon for a Resident Evil: Afterlife panel answering fan questions. On July 24, 2010, they attended the San Diego Comic-Con International to promote the film.
Worldwide overview
The film grossed $60 million in the United States and Canada with $236 million in other markets for a worldwide total of $296 million.In the United States, the high box office gross was attributed to the ticket price inflation of the 3D presentation, but the film had the lowest opening weekend attendance of the film series. On November 23, 2010 Resident Evil: Afterlife, became the most successful production in Canadian feature film history,as well as the highest grossing zombie film.
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