This film was embarrassingly bad. It had some good cinematography and creature designs. Some entertaining action. Milla Jovovich was good here, she really tried and was let down by the abysmal writing. Some of the set pieces and uses of gore were cool. With a couple of interesting moments and some good Asian representation.
BUT where to start with the negatives, there was a complete lack of any form of character background or set up so we didn't know or care about the characters. There was no set up or explanation to the story world or plot. The pacing was incredibly rushed, never letting any of the scenes sink in and making the film extremely clunky and messy. The script was abysmal. There was countless lapses in the logic. There was lazily set up situations just for action that was very forced and, despite being entertaining never stuck the landing due to having no purpose or reasoning to it. There was random characters introduced multiple times that just helped for 5 minutes and then died. The action was very forced. There was absolutely no character development or depth. I didn't care about a single character. There was practically no plot at all with no explanation whatsoever it was just all pointless action. It was tonally off multiple times and actually laughable when it wasn't supposed to be. There was a lack of variety with the monsters. It was predictable, and the final act was messy and lazily set up a sequel.
So overall, Milla Jovovich tries her best, and if you forget about everything which is difficult, it looks nice and is mostly entertaining. But there is nothing beyond the surface level. It was embarrassing, messy, lazy, generic, lacked purpose, explanation or meaning and the list goes on. The worst video game adaptation I have seen and my worst film of the year so far.
BUT where to start with the negatives, there was a complete lack of any form of character background or set up so we didn't know or care about the characters. There was no set up or explanation to the story world or plot. The pacing was incredibly rushed, never letting any of the scenes sink in and making the film extremely clunky and messy. The script was abysmal. There was countless lapses in the logic. There was lazily set up situations just for action that was very forced and, despite being entertaining never stuck the landing due to having no purpose or reasoning to it. There was random characters introduced multiple times that just helped for 5 minutes and then died. The action was very forced. There was absolutely no character development or depth. I didn't care about a single character. There was practically no plot at all with no explanation whatsoever it was just all pointless action. It was tonally off multiple times and actually laughable when it wasn't supposed to be. There was a lack of variety with the monsters. It was predictable, and the final act was messy and lazily set up a sequel.
So overall, Milla Jovovich tries her best, and if you forget about everything which is difficult, it looks nice and is mostly entertaining. But there is nothing beyond the surface level. It was embarrassing, messy, lazy, generic, lacked purpose, explanation or meaning and the list goes on. The worst video game adaptation I have seen and my worst film of the year so far.