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Erin Meister, Boston Globe: It's all so much more fun when you're the one with the controller, telling the heroes what to do: Watching this stuff unfold onscreen is like sitting by while someone plays your video games without you. Read more
Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times: The story and characters are surprisingly engaging, with fight scenes and scares effectively placed between plot turns. Read more
Scott Brown, Entertainment Weekly: Resident Evil: Extinction plays like a flabby middle chapter, full of nerdy details but fraudulently short on the ruined Vegas-scape that ads have been promising. Read more
John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: More of the same game. Read more
Matt Weitz, Dallas Morning News: The palette is post-apocalyptic America, with generous squeezes of every cinematic pigment from The Omega Man to Mad Max to Night of the Living Dead. Really, the lack of flying saucers ultimately becomes quite amazing. Read more
Jim Ridley, L.A. Weekly: It's the first of the agonizing Resident Evil movies that could remotely be considered fun. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: The action is not so much bloody as bloody monotonous. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: Resident Evil: Extinction is no more interesting than watching someone else play with his Xbox. Read more
Jason Anderson, Globe and Mail: The third in the modestly successful franchise spawned by the ultraviolent video-game, Resident Evil: Extinction provides little in the way of satisfying explanations or, for that matter, satisfying anything. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: If ever a movie was made for a quick in-and-out engagement at the multiplex, this is it. Read more