Resident Evil: Retribution

"Some sequels suggest that no one involved with a franchise really cares anymore."

"The acting is sometimes shockingly bad, but generally the script doesn’t ask much of the actors, and the combat is effectively staged and often thrilling."

"A mind-melting popcorn film gelled with insane amounts of action-packed eye-candy."

"If they ran these scenes at normal speed, would 95 dreary minutes become a much more expedient 20 to 25?"

"At this point in the franchise, Anderson is content to alight the saga on a perpetual rewind loop, ever-ending, ever-rebooting, all subsidised by his nonpareil compositional sense."

"Resident Evil: Retribution showcases tantalising big budget action on a stylistically provocative level."

"The Resident Evil films... seem to be evolving into their own brand of hyper-stylized cheese, made more extreme with each outing."

"Anderson['s] lavish visual imagination is matched to a placeholder idea of character that's almost avant-garde in its generic stylization, dialogue buffed of personality by passing through 10,000 previous movies."

"A cacophony of abstract action-horror mayhem."

"Taking place almost entirely inside computer-simulated global locations, "Retribution" moves closer than ever to its airless video game roots."

"Thuddingly awful."

"Endless video-game-style, violent mayhem is on display in this latest edition of the mind-numbing apocalypse series."