Like it or not, the success of Resident Evil: Afterlife gave fans a great sense of hope that a fifth film would be made. Over the year news broke that a casting announcement was made, we got some very nice set photos as well as a title poster for the film and now we finally have our first trailer for Resident Evil: Retribution.
I want to give a brief warning though and I will get into this after the trailer, but the opening sequence is not a commercial it is actually part of the trailer. You will see what I mean
If you ignore the massive product placement/advertisement by Sony, the trailer looks very promising. Being a fan of this series, I really have a lot of hope for this film and that it might actually have a chance to be the best one in the series. I know some will say “ well that’s not very hard to do“, but Retribution seems to have the action fans have been looking for and a solid story line. Maybe this time we will actually learn something about Alice and the whole Umbrella Corp, maybe an end is near for the series. Plus, it looks like there are more people alive in this one, which could be a good/bad thing.
Now more on the horrible Sony commercial. I understand that movies get a portion of their funding by product placement. We see it all the time and most of the time we just laugh at it and shrug it off. However after watching this trailer I feel that Sony might have crossed the line. If I didn’t know any better I would have thought that there was no trailer and instead I was tricked into watching a Sony commercial for their different gadgets. I get they were trying to be funny and pull an old bait and switch on us but still, Sony for shame. Oh and Paul W.S. Anderson don’t think you don’t get some of this blame as well, you directed the film so you are just as much at fault as Sony.
Resident Evil: Retribution hits theaters September 14. The film stars Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Shawn Roberts, Oded Fehr, Michelle Rodriguez, Colin Salmon, Boris Kodjoe Johann Urb, Li Bingbing, and Kevin Durand, Oh yeah and a long list of Sony products!
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