Resident Evil fans who found themselves confused with the mishappened mess of discontinuity and unresolved plot-bunnies are in for a questionable gift: a fourth installment to the series. For those who have never seen any of the movies, the first one, written and directed by Paul Anderson (Mr. Video Game to Movie extraordinare) is a decent suspense movie with a zombie twist. The second and third one, written by Anderson but directed by seemingly less capable people while he pursued important projects such as Alien Vs Predator (don't see it!), got progressively TERRIBLE and should only be watched under extreme duress or in a vain attempt to understand horrible renditions of the video game characters. In spite of it all my complaining I can't lie; I'm going to see the movie. Anderson is directing this one, so I can tell myself that it has a hope to be managed in a way that doesn't feel like the direction is fighting with the script (case in point: Resident Evil 3: Extinction, the movie has some good themes and sequences, but it carelessly lingers on parts that aren't pertinent or that just seem completely random; I felt that presentation choices were trying to redefine focus points in the movie, and that lead it to feel long and awkward).
Even if Anderson wasn't directing it though and it was absolutely garenteed to be terrible, I'd probably still go see it in theaters just to see how they were moving the material from the game source around this time. And that is why sequels are inherently [resident] EVIILL.
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