That's why, after my loyalty, I was even more disappointed in how badly they failed on this one. It seems remarkably like they grabbed a 10 year old and asked him what should happen in the next movie. He, of course, said "First this should happen and than this, and this and this." Working on a set of universal rules and causality that is appropriate in the untamed imagination of a child, but certainly not in professional filmmaking.
I have to say though, I'm not that big of a fan of the games. I have still never played the first one and the only one I liked was RE4. The only reason I even got into the movies was because I got on a zombie kick around the time the remake of Dawn of the Dead was made. Maybe that's why throughout this movie I kept hoping to see Leon. A Leon/Ashley movie would probably work out well, because this movie showed the Alice storyline is totally tapped. Resident Evil 4 made an apparent appearance, though, through a creature who acted like he had been infected with Las Plagas. He was this movie's Nemisis, without the witty charm.
Possibly the most disappointing thing in the movie was Wesker. As I said, I'm not a huge fan of the games, but even so, they show a very specific idea of Wesker, and the actor they got to play him fell so far short, it's almost laughable.
This isn't to say the movie had no positives, though. There was still lots of explotions, throat slitting and fire. And the fall back, Milla Jovovich is still hot, even though she dresses like an American woman in Saudi Arabia.
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