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Resident Evil: Afterlife Blu-ray

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment - 2010

Written and Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson

Starring
Milla Jovovich
Ali Larter
Kim Coates
Shawn Roberts
Sergio Peris-Mancheta
Spencer Locke
Boris Kodjoe
Wentworth Miller

The forth film in the RESIDENT EVIL series delivers exactly what you've come to expect.  Brilliant picture, with imagery that literally bursts off your TV screen, exquisite sound blankets your viewing experience with the combo of tomanandy's energetic score and high performance sound FX.  Plus there's enough action to satisfy the biggest adrenaline seeker.

The best way to describe the story is take the most memorable elements of the entire series, blend them together.  Alice (Milla Jovovich) becomes human again she flees the undead masses created by the T-Virus.  She joins together with prisoners from an abandoned prison to try and seek refuge at "Arcadia."  But Albert Wesker and the Umbrella Corporation will try to stop her dead in her tracks.

There are some standout scenes that will leave an impression such as; when Alice flies up north to find the field full of vacant airplanes with nobody around.  Claire Redfield's (Ali Larter) water drenched fight with the SILENT HILL-like executioner and the rooftop airplane escape scene on the Los Angeles skyscraper with thousands of undead waiting below.

Supplements include: Undead Vision Picture-in-Picture which combines the best of all behind the scenes stuff by using interviews, pre-vis storyboards and behind the scenes footage injected at the bottom right corner of the frame, while the movie plays.  Commentary with Writer/Director Paul W.S. Anderson, Producer Jeremy Bolt and Producer Robert Kulzer is a great way to learn the most important production details given with passion and professionalism by all three guys.  Anderson says that when the last movie ended he felt Alice character had become invincible, which would take away any tension in the new movie because she couldn't be beat.  Because of this he decided to take away her powers and make her human again.  The info these three guys give is also not exactly the same as the featurettes so it's worth listening to.  There is six Deleted Scenes and three Extended Scenes.  There is about five minutes of Outtakes which show the crew a lighter moments, where cast get the giggles and can't keep a straight face.  There are also 5 Behind-the Scenes Featurettes.  There is also Sneak Peek of Resident Evil: Damnation.

The RESIDENT EVIL series has been very consistent in terms of high level production quality & stellar presentation on DVD and now Blu-ray.  I do recommend seeing this for sure and adding AFTERLIFE to your Blu-ray collection.

www.SonyPictures.com/bluray