Resident Evil: Retribution
Alice battles through Umbrella Corporation’s artificial apocalypse while trying to rescue her daughter and evade relentless bioengineered hunters.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Breakneck
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Easy to follow
- Violence
- Graphic
- propulsive
- grim
- stylized
- action movie night
- horror marathon
What critics said
Critics broadly found the film energetic and visually aggressive but criticized its thin, game-like plot and weak characterization.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Alice initially experiences an apparently ordinary home before discovering the Umbrella underground facility and its constructed scenarios.
Umbrella's facility and the film's epidemic mythology center on cloned subjects and corporate experimentation.
Alice, Ada Wong, Jill Valentine, and Rain are central combatants in the rescue and pursuit narrative.
Umbrella Corporation, the Red Queen, and the central security system determine the characters' movement and survival.
Films like Resident Evil: Retribution, and why
Resident Evil: Afterlife
shares science fiction action, zombie horror, dystopian conspiracy, and a heavily armed female protagonist
Resident Evil: Extinction
shares post-apocalyptic survival action, mutant threats, conspiracy-driven plotting, and stylized violence
Doom
shares science fiction horror, bioengineered monsters, underground facilities, and kinetic combat
Underworld: Evolution
shares girls with guns, zombie action, corporate conspiracy, and video game-inspired spectacle
Movie Details
- Director
- Paul W. S. Anderson
- Release Date
- 2012-09-12
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Rating
- 5.8 / 10 (4462)
Cast
- Milla Jovovich
- Sienna Guillory
- Michelle Rodriguez
- Aryana Engineer
- Li Bingbing
- Boris Kodjoe
- Johann Urb
- Robin Kasyanov
- Kevin Durand
- Ofilio Portillo
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- Netflix
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home, Plex
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is Resident Evil: Retribution about?
- Alice battles through Umbrella Corporation’s artificial apocalypse while trying to rescue her daughter and evade relentless bioengineered hunters.
- What is Resident Evil: Retribution like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Resident Evil: Retribution as breakneck, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as easy to follow.
- Is Resident Evil: Retribution violent?
- Yes. Ember rates the violence in Resident Evil: Retribution as graphic.
- What did critics think of Resident Evil: Retribution?
- Critics broadly found the film energetic and visually aggressive but criticized its thin, game-like plot and weak characterization.
- Which films are like Resident Evil: Retribution?
- Films with a similar feel include Resident Evil: Afterlife, Resident Evil: Extinction, Doom, and Underworld: Evolution.
- How long is Resident Evil: Retribution?
- Resident Evil: Retribution runs 95 minutes.
- Where can I watch Resident Evil: Retribution?
- In United States, Resident Evil: Retribution streams on Netflix.
