While soaring over Los Angeles, they catch a glimpse of a group of people calling for help on the roof of a prison. After a risky landing, the duo receives a briefing and ultimately learns that Arcadia isn’t a place; it’s a boat. In fact, they can see the boat in the distance. The trouble is, they’ve got no way of reaching it for the prison gates are swarming with undead.
Afterlife’s multiple Jovovich opening is quite impressive. Half the fun of these films is seeing Jovovich pull off impossible stunts while annihilating hordes of zombies. Multiply that by about a dozen Alices and you get a fantastically deadly sequence. The sad thing is that once the Umbrella raid comes to a close, Afterlife turns into a completely different movie.
While these moments are enthralling and impressively choreographed, they’re still not enough to offset the irrational plot. Everything is just so poorly developed. Afterlife feels as though it’s three different movies mashed into one. You’ve got Alice’s battle against Umbrella, the jail element and a third portion of the film, which I won’t spoil, and they’re all just thrown together as though they’ll naturally flow without an effort. Sure, using tomandandy’s quite appropriate booming score gets you pumped moving from one part to the next, but all it takes is a moment of second thought to realize that what just happened, didn’t make a bit of sense.
