It's fairly straight forward and simple, as all of the Resident Evil movies are. It starts out with this absolutely fantastic scene that shows the ending of the last movie, or how it would've ended anyways, but in rewind, starting with Alice under water. My dad joked "hey guy, get off the rewind button!" when we went to see it in theaters (the first time for me). Hahaha my dad is a funny guy. Anyways, more on this scene later.

Anyways, Alice (Milla Jovovich) is on a freighter in the middle of the ocean with a slew of survivors from the last movie. It gets attacked by a bunch of Umbrella soldiers, led by... Jill Valentine?! (Sienna Guillory). Alice causes one of the air crafts to crash into the freighter, causing an explosion and a huge Oh-Shit Wave to throw her into the ocean. You think she's like, drowning or something, as she just got dumped in the middle of the ocean. It fades out, and then goes to this scene of Alice in bed in a sunny, clean bedroom. Her hair is different, and she's staring at herself in the mirror with the same expression the movie-goers probably had: What the heck am I doing here? Wasn't I just sinking into the ocean?

Then, her "husband, Todd" (who is actually Carlos Olivera, who died in RE:3) (played by Oded Fehr) comes in and tells her that they are late. Alice, who is now a suburban housewife, just smiles and says she'll get "Becky" up, all traces of confusion now gone from her face.

The scene plays out like a normal morning in any normal household. Becky (Aryana Engineer) turns out to be the couple's deaf daughter, who looks to be about 12 or so. All goes well until OH MY GOD A ZOMBIE JUST ATTACKED DADDY! This part kinda made me jump a little, as you kinda feel it coming, but don't know when it's going to happen. Yes, I saw it twice, and it made me jump both times. The timing is really excellent for this part.

So Alice takes her daughter Becky and runs frantically away from the zombie hoarde that has somehow...entered their house...without...alerting...them... Yeah. PLOTHOLE. They hide in the laundry room and Alice grabs a broom and you're thinking "Awww yeah Alice is about to release a major can of whoop-ass on these zombie freaks!" And you wait and you wait for the awesome fight scene but it never comes. Alice is just a weak, scared little housewife. This leaves you very confused, as does the whole entire scene!

Alice and Becky eventually escape their house and make it out onto the street, where they find the whole neighborhood is alive with zombie-fighing, gun-firing, siren-wailing, car tired-screeching pandemoneum. They stumble into the street where they almost get run over by... Rain Ocampo! Who I thought...died...in...the first...Resident Evil...movie...? Oh well, this Rain (Michelle Rodriguez) is a student who seems to know Alice and Becky, and tells them to hurry and get in the car. They are trying to escape, but their efforts are thwarthed by a giant truck that basically just bashed the hell out of them, causing the car to flip.

Inside the now upside-down car, Rain is unconscious, hanging limply from her seatbelt, while Alice and Becky are awake and unhurt. Which is strange...because...Alice and Becky...never...buckled...their...seatbelts. PLOTHOLE.

Anyways, they run to an "abandoned" house, being pursued very closely by a hoarde of bloodthirsty zombies. They hide from one particularly scary zombie in a bedroom closet. Alice does one single badass thing and tackles the zombie to lure it away from her daughter. She then manages to push it over the banister, killing it by impaling it on broken bits of stairs.

Then she gets attacked by her now-zombified husband, and the scene blacks out.

Okay what. Where did he come from? How did he find them? AH-HA! But I have the answer to that... In a little bit.

The scene pops back to regular Alice! She is in a relatively small, all-white holding cell, passed out on the ground, and someone thought they'd be considerate enough to cover her with a piece of Kleenex. But honestly, it wouldn't be a Milla Jovovich movie if she wasn't naked for at least one scene!

One of the panels lights up and you see Jill Valentine, clad in a quite sexy purple skin-tight jumpsuit and a... wait is that a... EW A GIANT RED MECHANICAL BUG THING ON HER CHEST EW GET IT OFF GET IT OFF GET IT OFF. By the end of this scene it is pretty safe to say that Jill is being brainwashed by this red bug thing and being controlled by Umbrella. But just who is behind all this?

Also, Jill's pretty, chin-length dark brown bob from the 2nd Resident Evil movie is now gone! Replaced by long blonde hair. I guess just to stay loyal to the games... I guess if that's the reason I don't mind it. I guess.

Brainwashed Jill tries to interrogate Alice, who is so confused and thinks Jill can be "talked out of it" lolnope. So Jill responds to her insubordination by drowning the room in an absolutely horrible screeching medley of disgusting noise vomit. Seriously, it must've sucked in there.

Finally, there is a power outage. My first thought was "oh snap, Alice is using her T-virus enhanced psychic powers to infiltrate the facility's mainframe and shut everything down!" But...then you remember that at the end of the 4th Resident Evil movie, that damn Albert Wesker took her powers away. So now all she is is a super athletic, strong, martial arts genius/total badass who knows how to weild guns and an assortment of other weapons. Not bad.

Well if it's not Alice, then who is doing it? She's obviously getting help from the inside. A panel in the wall opens up, revealing a black, skin-tight suit covered in silver buckles, along with platform boots and all. Which...just so happens...to be...perfectly....tailored....to her size....already... PLOTHOLE. The door to the cell opens up, Jill disappears from the window, and Alice gets dressed and gets the hell outta there.

2 minutes later, a system reboot is initiated, bringing all cameras, security devices, and everything back online and in working status. Jill is seen sitting in a dark room, silent, eyes closed, alongside a bunch of helmet-clad Umbrella soldiers. It is to be assumed that when the facility's systems were hacked and shut down, she and the soldiers were also shut-down, put in a stand-by mode until the system could be rebooted. If that's true, then why wasn't the brainwashing effect taken off of her. It IS proven later on in the movie that the only thing brainwashing Jill is the red scarab on her chest. So when it is dim, and apparently not working, why isn't Jill returned to her normal, independently-thinking self? PLOTHOLE.

When systems are rebooted, Jill, receiving orders from WHOEVER it is, orders a security sweep of the corridors. And guess what, those flesh-slicing lasers we all know and love from pretty much all of the other movies (except 2 and 4, I believe) are there. Alice runs pretty easily, and thankfully that is the only time you see those lasers in the entire film.

Alice emerges from the corridor and into a place that strongly resembles downtown Tokyo. There, a voice from overhead announces that the Tokyo sequence will begin, but not before Alice procures a thick bicycle chain and a basic handgun from a cop car. It starts raining, and normal-looking, Japanese civilians flood the streets, including patient zero (Mika Nakashima), the blue dress-clad Japanese girl who is believed the be the first Japanese citizen, if not the first person in the outside world to be infected with the T-virus and become a zombie. Then all Hell breaks loose, causing Alice to flee in another corridor from a crowd of zombies pursuing her.

This starts the most epic battle sequence in the whole movie. Okay, maybe the second best, but I'll get to that. Holy cow. Alice unleashes all hell on these zombies, using her gun, the bike chain, and her own awesome fighting moves to destroy like ten of 'em in no time. This was a very entertaining scene to watch, and I'll even post it here for you guys to enjoy real quick.





All done? Wasn't that great? And that part at the end with Alice and patient zero? Totally dramatic. Well done, fight choreographers. Well. Done. My only problem with this is that that floor looks pretty darn slippery. And didn't she just get out of the rain? And there are drippy watery bloody zombies all over the place? She should've been slipping and falling all over the place. But screw physics, right?

Moving on, Alice enters a room filled with dead Umbrella workers at their desks, blood spattered everywhere. Who could've done this? Alice retrieves better weapons, and is confronted by none other than OH MY GOD IS THAT ADA WONG?! HOLY CRAP IT'S ADA WONG AND SHE LOOKS JUST LIKE SHE DOES IN THE VIDEO GAMES HOLLLYYYY CRAP! (Apparently Li Bingbing wore a $7,500 wig while filming as Ada Wong but who cares she looks fantastic!)

Ada explains that she is there to help Alice, and will lead her out of this facility, which she soon reveals is underwater in abandoned Soviet Union submarine pens deep in the Arctic Circle. The image of Albert Wesker (Shawn Roberts) appears on one of the screens, revealing that either this Wesker, or the one Alice killed at the end of RE:4, is a clone. Probably that other one, seeing as he was a zombie. Alice is wary to trust Wesker and Ada, but soon finds that she has no choice if she wants to emerge from the underwater facility alive.

Albert Wesker explains that he has arranged for a strike team, composed of 5 really hot and buff action guys, to rendevous with Alice and Ada halfway through the facility, but they must make it through the New York testing environment first, and meet up in the Suburbia testing environment (presumably modeled after American suburbia but who the hell knows?)

Oh yeah, they only have 2 hours because the strike team, led by Leon Kennedy (Johann Urb) (who looks pretty darn good too) and Luther West (Boris Kodjoe) who is Alice's friend from RE:4, rigged explosives on the surface that would sink the facility in that amount of time, whether they were out or not.

It is also revealed that the Red Queen (Megan Charpentier as the image, Ave Merson-O'Brien as the voice) from RE:1 has linked herself to this facility and has taken over everything that has to do with Umbrella, ever. This articificial intelligence, which resembles a young British girl, is hell-bent on decimating all of mankind.

Ada and Alice go to the New York testing environment where they are met by two giant ax-weilding zombies (who are either modeled after a boss in one of the games, or are a re-model of the main zombie Alice must fight with her gun, which fires loose change instead of bullets, in RE:4). Ada and Alice make quick work of them, and this turns out to be a pretty entertaining scene too. This is where you begin to discover that Ada is pretty much USELESS, as Alice needs to come to her aid, however subtly, before Ada just pretty much mirrors Alice's actions. They blow up a gas-soaked car by firing their bullets at it, which causes a huge, ONE-WAY explosion that kills the giant ax zombies. Now how the hell---? They were just as far away from the fiery explosion as the zombies were, but they managed to emerge unhurt? PLOTHOLE!

Ada and Alice make it to the Suburbia testing environment. They enter the same household as seen earlier because Alice sees movement in the window and thinks it might be the strike team. Now how the hell does that even make sense? Anyways, they enter the house and Alice goes up stairs... open the closet... and you think you'll see Becky, right? Wrong. It's a zombie. Alice kills it, and in runs Becky, who has managed to... stay alive... and... uneaten... this.... whole... time(?) PLOTHOLE. Becky of course embraces Alice, thinking that she is her mother. It's pretty clear by now that the quaint suburban family seen earlier are all just clones.

Since there are apparently NO OTHER ZOMBIES in the previously ZOMBIE-INFESTED house, they chill there for a bit, Alice telling Becky to get ready to go. Ada tries to dissuade Alice from dragging Becky along, claiming that she is just a clone and she can show her "hundreds just like her, in cold storage" and also explains that Becky and Alice were both one of the 50 basic models, used by Umbrella to make clones to populate the testing environments. This seems to really bother Alice, even though she already KNEW that Umbrella had been using her clones, because she came across a whole heap of dead Alice clones in RE:3, as well as a whole heap of ALIVE Alice clones in the end of RE:3. But whatever. I guess the news still bothers her... No matter how many times she hears it.

Alice also picks up some framed family photos laying around of her and Todd and Becky and-- wait a second. So does that mean this is her house? But... in the beginning, it shows Suburban Mother Alice and Becky driving AWAY from their house, and then running AWAY from the car crash into a DIFFERENT house. So unless there are like a dozen families that look just like theirs in this one small suburban area... But wait! That can't be it either. Because later Becky notices a similarity between two Rain clones. So surely she would notice a similarity between a family that looked EXACTLY LIKE HERS and her own family, right? PLOT. HOLE.

They try to leave but they are ambushed outside by Jill, leading a team that consists of a different Rain clone, this one really mean, stating that it's "not her problem" when Alice tries to avoid fighting by pointing out that there was "a child here". Also in the team is a different Carlos, also pretty evil, and James "One" Shade, who also died in RE:1. Clearly, these are all clones, except for Jill and the helmet-clad, nameless Umbrella soldiers.

A gun fight ensues, ending with Ada giving Alice a pair of surprisingly stylish glasses that apparently display a map out of the facility, Alice and Becky escaping, and Ada disappearing. Alice later speculates that she is dead, but Leon scoffs at this belief, stating that Ada "always has a plan". Maybe he just doesn't want to believe that his love interest is dead? Or maybe he truly believes this? Who knows.

Anyways, Alice and Becky meet up in an underground subway tunnel with the good Rain clone, the one who tried to save them earlier. Alice gives her one of her guns and tells her to protect Becky while she goes further into the Moscow testing environment to meet up with the strike team and bring them back there.

The strike team, meanwhile is having trouble with Las Plagas zombies, zombies that can weild guns and drive vehicles. And also an enormous Licker. They lose 2 of their friends, one getting gutted by a Las Plagas zombie's chainsaw and one getting his head chomped off by the giant Licker zombie. Alice saves them with a car and narrowly escapes into the underground subway tunnels. The resulting ceiling cave-in buries the Licker, so it's dead right? It also cuts off the entrance to the tunnel, leaving them safely cut off from the Las Plagas zombies.

They get to the submarine pens where the elevator is waiting to take them to the surface and to their escape. Unfortunately, someone has manually shut off the elevator's power, and they can't escape. The giant Licker returns, kills Good Rain, wounds one of the 3 remaining strike team members, kidnaps Becky and disappears. Alice, despite Leon's protests, goes to save Becky.

Now, my only question is, why didn't the Licker just eat Becky? It's a little, tasty, tender girl, and the zombie is supposed to have no mind of its own, at least not Lickers. But it seems to be purposely trying to use Becky as bait to lure Alice away so it can kill her. How does it even know that Alice and Becky have the type of relationship that that plan would even work? How did it even formulate that plan? It's supposed to be a mindless, zombified beast. What the hell? This is either a PLOTHOLE or some other attempt at a sub-plot that kinda veered off the road. Either way, I doubt many people noticed. I did, of course, but whatever.

Alice succeeds in saving Becky and returns just in time to completely miss the gun battle that happened between Rain, One, Jill, a few helmet-clad Umbrella soldiers, against Leon, the wounded strike team member, and Luther. Jill reveals that they have Ada held captive, hand-cuffed and at gun point, but alive, so they stop shooting. They shoot the already-wounded strike team member (I think his name is Barry Burton but I'm not too sure), but he somehow survives long enough to shoot and kill One, before being shot down for good himself.

Leon reveals that the explosives were set in place as a back-up plan to shoot the elevator sky-ward, just in case they weren't able to do it manually. The submarine pens flood, presumably killing Jill, Rain, Ada, and all those left behind. Alice, Becky, Luther, and Leon are on the surface, driving this vehicle, presumably safe.

That's before a submarine emerges from the surface, toppling Alice's vehicle. They emerge, and who should pop out from the submarine but Jill, Rain, and a still-captive Ada?

The ultimate show-down is about to go down. Jill is no longer receiving orders to capture Alice if possible. Her only order is to kill her. Rain injects herself with the Las Plagas virus, to give her superhuman strength and healing abilities. Guns don't work on her. She then knocks Ada out with her gun, thus rendering her UTTERLY USELESS just like she has been for the WHOLE ENTIRE MOVIE.

Jill goes for Alice, and they have the best fight scene I have ever seen perhaps in my entire life. Here, you guys have a look for yourselves.





Did you like it? As you can see, Alice got her ass handed to her. She must've been tired from all this badass ass-kicking she had been doing through-out the movie, because it's clear from the beginning of the duel that she doesn't have a fighting chance against Jill. Like seriously, Alice landed like 2 hits, tops. Jill literally demolished Alice. But it was a beautiful fight scene, absolutely amazing.

Luckily, in a totally foreseeable and kinda cheaters-way-out turn of events, Alice rips the red scarab mind-control device from Jill's chest and destroys it, thus releasing Jill from Umbrella's brainwashing grip, but also rendering her unconscious.

This whole time, Luther and Leon are battling Rain and losing badly. Rain kills Luther, and knocks Leon out. Alice tries to fight Rain, but Rain almost kills her too. Jill wakes up long enough to toss Alice a totally useless gun, before rolling over and becoming completely useless again. Alice then shoots the ice under Rain's feet, submerging her in freezing cold, zombie-infested waters. Rain gets pulled down and snacked on by the dozens of water-breathing, hungry zombies under the surface. Alice collapses just as help in a helicopter arrives.

Ada wakes up just as the battle is over, met with a symphony of scoffs and lip-smacks from the audience in response to how utterly CONVENIENT it is for her to be unconscious through the whole ending fight scene so she wouldn't have to actually DO ANYTHING.

On the helicopter, Alice is hooked up to a number of life-sustaining machines, where she is happily reunited with Becky, and her friend Jill, who is now her friend and not trying to kill her under Umbrella's orders. Ada turns down a physical advance from Leon, which is pretty much the only hint of their relationship in the whole movie. Kind of a let-down.

When they land by the Washington, they find that Albert Wesker is leading the last remaining humans in a desperate fight against the virus outbreak. Wesker has taken up the head chair in the White House, which only seems to serve the purpose of him being the head of the revolution. Alice is less than pleased to see him there. Wesker injects her with a virus, using his own superhuman speed, and explains that he has given her her superhuman and psychic powers back.

Um... Then why the HELL did you take them away in RE:4 if you were just gonna give them back? She really could've used those powers in the fight against Jill, y'know. What an inconsiderate--

So it ends with Ada, Wesker, Leon, Jill, and Alice going to the roof and witnessing the fierce battle between humans and an assortment of zombies and mutated creatures, including what appears to be a teaser towards the next film, featuring flying mutated creatures that we have yet to see in any of the other 4 movies.

It's actually a pretty cool ending scene, seeing all 5 of these characters lined up, side by side, looking stunningly similiar to their game personas. Very nice nod towards the video game series there, surely much appreciated by the fan base that came to see if it would resemble the games at all. And the first time this is done in the whole Resident Evil series since the first one when we see Alice's red dress.