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You're All Going to Die Down Here Resident Evil: Retribution (Rated R) by HEATHER GRIFFITHS Before the movie begins, a trailer for a movie due out next year render this entry a bit confusing, but Resident Evil: Retribution (95 minutes) offers a helpful recap of the last four films complete with split screen images to help catch me up. I must admit the opening credits are pretty darn cool looking, the cast names popping into view while the first five minutes or so of the film crawls by in back- wards slow-mo with plenty of distorted point-of-view shots. Lots of militant types are jumping from helicopters to attack a ship filled with people dressed all in white. Jill Valentine (Sienna Guillory) is leading the attack after the Umbrella Corporation (the Big Bad of the franchise) brain- washed her at some point in the last four films. Perennial hero Alice (Milla Jovovich) faces down the attackers only to be blown off the ship and into a seeming alternate reality in which she is a suburban housewife married to Todd (Oded Fehr from Apocalypse, etc.). While behaving cutely over breakfast with their daughter Becky (Aryana Engineer) they are attacked by fast zombie- like creatures. called Mama makes me just about crawl out of my skin, restoring my faith in American horror movies. This is followed by the fifth sign of the apocalypse, a trailer for Battle of the Year featuring Josh Holloway and looking mind-bogglingly horrendous. Writer-director Paul W.S. Anderson returns to the franchise, and even though I should love this series, I do not. He directed one of the best space-horror movies ever, but he has never been able to recapture that greatness, instead opting to go for style over substance productions. His films look alright, but generally descend pretty quickly into plot-hole filled nonsense. I was concerned that skipping the last film in the franchise might Aside. Everyone needs to stop categorizing the Resident Evil series as zom- bie movies. Zombies are slow moving corpses brought back from the grave in various stages of decay that hunger after the flesh of the living OR they are living humans in a state of drugged complacency who have lost free will and most of their personality. They ARE NOT speedy little suckers with slurping tentacles that shoot out of their mouths. End Aside. wearing clones. The only question remaining is whether or not the extraction team can rendezvous with them before Umbrella Security (the Red Queen) wipes them all out. of her role and fans of the films will love this as much as the last four. Retribution sticks close to its video game origins, with slick visuals that capture the essence of the game that inspired the series and a plot that resembles the standard hack and slash walkthrough. Of course, clothing the female action heroes in either barely-there clothes complete with spiked heels or pseudo- dominatrix wear is just the regular video-game bonus. Now showing at Wynnsong 7, Carmike 12 and Carmike Market Fair 15. HEATHER GRIFFITHS, Contributing Writer. COMMENTS? Editor@upand- comingweekly.com. How To Find Network ATMs... With over 28,000 locations, it cannot be hard to fi nd, but here is how to locate a network ATM you can use for free! There are lots of ways... • Online - go to www.co-opfs.org and click on ATM locator at the top of the page. You can also fi nd a link to this website on Bragg Mutual's Home Page (www.braggmutualfcu.com). • Text - you can text a city & state or a zip code to 692667 (my coop) to fi nd the nearest locations. Your standard text messaging rates apply. • Telephone - you can call the network and you will be given information regard- ing the nearest locations to you. 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After a few more near escapes the scene shifts to Alice awakening in an oubliette with Jill standing high above her. Following some naked interrogation Alice makes her escape with the assistance of a digital Wesker (Shawn Roberts) and Ada Wong (Bingbing Li). After wading her way through a few score not-zom- bies she finds out that she is in an underground facility designed to simulate environments around the world and peopled with red shirt Overall, if the movie works in any respect it is because Jovovich sells the heck out