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Resident Evil: Retribution

Movie ID: 1185

RT slug: resident_evil_retribution

RT URL: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/resident_evil_retribution

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Release year: 2012

Runtime: 96 mins

Wide release date: 2012-09-14

Limited release date: —

Festival premiere date: —

Streaming release date: 2014-08-01

Tomatometer final: 28%

Audience score final: 51%

Genres: Action, Adventure, Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Sci-Fi

Directors: Paul W.S. Anderson

Writers: Paul W.S. Anderson

Producers: Don Carmody, Jeremy Bolt, Paul W.S. Anderson, Robert Kulzer, Samuel Hadida

MPAA rating: R

Executive Producers: —

Created: 2026-08-19 20:52:16

Updated: 2026-08-19 20:52:16

Synopsis

As Umbrella Corp.'s deadly T-virus continues to turn the world's population into legions of flesh-eating zombies, Alice, the human race's last hope, awakes deep within Umbrella's secret operations facility. The further she delves into the complex, the more of her mysterious past is unveiled. Her global hunt for those responsible for the outbreak leads to a mind-blowing revelation; Aided by friends old and new, Alice fights to escape from a world on the edge of oblivion.

Consensus

Resident Evil: Retribution offers everything one might reasonably expect from the fifth installment in a heavily action-dependent franchise -- which means very little beyond stylishly hollow CGI-enhanced set pieces.

Latest Snapshot / Canonical Review Totals

Canonical reviews: 74

Canonical fresh: 21

Canonical rotten: 53

Canonical calculated Tomatometer: 28%

Latest snapshot UTC: 2026-08-19 18:36:07

Snapshot Tomatometer: 28%

Snapshot review count: 74

Snapshot fresh count: 21

Snapshot rotten count: 53

Source note: Imported from manual review paste batch #2884 (full_snapshot)

Companies

Company Role
Sony Pictures Entertainment distributor
Constantin Film production
Davis Films production
Impact Pictures production

Cast

Billing Name Character
1 Milla Jovovich Alice
2 Michelle Rodriguez Rain
3 Kevin Durand Barry Burton
4 Sienna Guillory Jill Valentine
5 Shawn Roberts Albert Wesker

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Latest Canonical Reviews (max 100)

ID Critic Outlet Fresh? Score RT Time Raw Approx Published UTC Quote
245762 Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review Rotten 1/4 2022-09-27T03:19:02.000Z 2022-09-27 03:19:02 The degree to which this fast-food movie and its predecessors are completely forgettable is counteracted by Anderson’s usual clip-show recaps at the beginning of each new sequel.
245763 Mike Massie Gone With The Twins Rotten 1/10 2020-12-02T07:31:12.000Z 2020-12-02 07:31:12 To make up for the utter lake of sensibility, the film incorporates lots of spontaneous action, sudden crashes or explosions or gunfire, and hyperactive zombies.
245764 David Hogan hoganreviews.co.uk Rotten 2/5 2019-10-31T10:50:50.000Z 2019-10-31 10:50:50 I was starting to sort of like these films, in a silly way, but this was so empty, filled with so many long scenes of characters just shooting machine guns at each other....
245765 Paul Freitag-Fey Daily Grindhouse Rotten — 2019-08-02T14:21:08.000Z 2019-08-02 14:21:08 You should manage to keep your eyes occupied to a degree that your brain won't even notice until the credits start to roll.
245766 Micheal Compton Bowling Green Daily News Rotten — 2019-04-11T01:02:39.000Z 2019-04-11 01:02:39 It's just another monotonous spectacle that feels like you're watching someone else play a video game.
245767 Johnny Gayzmonic Fanboys of the Universe Rotten 5/10 2018-11-02T17:05:10.000Z 2018-11-02 17:05:10 Sometimes you just need to turn off your brain and enjoy some good old-fashioned ultraviolence. Mmmm...brains...
245768 Sarah Gopaul Digital Journal Rotten — 2018-10-20T00:48:18.000Z 2018-10-20 00:48:18 Long running franchises tend to suffer from the same ailment -- the latter installments eventually lose sight of the better aspects of the series.
245769 Ignatiy Vishnevetsky MUBI Fresh — 2017-11-19T21:20:10.000Z 2017-11-19 21:20:10 Paul W.S. Anderson makes lively, unpretentious mid-budget genre movies fixated on video-gamey "cool" and distinguished by their leanness and their inventive- and sometimes even poetic- use of space.
245770 Daniel Cairns SciFiNow Rotten 2/5 2017-09-19T20:31:29.000Z 2017-09-19 20:31:29 You know it's dreadful while you watch it, yet you're still paying rapt attention to its vehement anti-genius.
245771 Sebastian Zavala Kahn Más Gamers Rotten 1/4 2017-08-15T01:26:34.000Z 2017-08-15 01:26:34 It seems that Anderson was forced to film this with a gun to his head. [Full review in Spanish]
245772 Eric D. Snider ScreenAnarchy Rotten — 2013-07-17T02:24:44.000Z 2013-07-17 02:24:44 Any unfortunate souls who wander in with no prior Resident Evil experience will wonder how something this anemic and shallow was ever popular. You and me both, friends.
245773 Steve Newton Georgia Straight Rotten 2/5 2013-02-15T17:43:15.000Z 2013-02-15 17:43:15 Looks are absolutely everything in Retribution, which melds stunning 3-D computer-graphics and spectacular sets with a skimpy storyline and zero characterization.
245774 Brent Simon Screen International Rotten 1.5/5 2013-02-07T14:49:22.000Z 2013-02-07 14:49:22 More high-calorie, low-sense, audiovisual CGI stimulation arrives in the form of this fifth and most roundly unsatisfying entry in the previously lithe and fun videogame franchise.
245775 James O'Ehley Sci-Fi Movie Page Fresh — 2013-01-18T02:42:05.000Z 2013-01-18 02:42:05 It has a Rolls with spinning hub caps - what more do you want?
245776 Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed Rotten — 2013-01-10T18:20:30.000Z 2013-01-10 18:20:30 More of the same idiotic swill that Anderson feeds his numbskull fan base.
245777 Rob Gonsalves Rob's Movie Vault Fresh B- 2012-12-17T08:32:55.000Z 2012-12-17 08:32:55 It's a funny thing about Jovovich as Alice: she gives the character just enough personality, but not enough to break the somber apocalyptic mood.
245778 Jeremy Wheeler TV Guide Fresh 2.5/4 2012-10-19T15:04:44.000Z 2012-10-19 15:04:44 The Resident Evil films are not everyone's bag, although they seem to be evolving into their own brand of hyper-stylized cheese, made more extreme with each outing.
245779 Paul Chambers Movie Chambers Fresh C+ 2012-10-08T11:38:05.000Z 2012-10-08 11:38:05 "Retribution" has actually got some very decent action and 3D effects. The story is still razor-thin. But, by the end of it all, I was ready for the next sequel, the presumed finale.
245780 Jeffrey Lyles Lyles' Movie Files Fresh 6.5/10 2012-10-06T11:33:20.000Z 2012-10-06 11:33:20 For those of us who know what we're in for with the series, the fifth installment is for better or worse, more of the same - albeit with the familiar levels of ridiculousness from its maddeningly inconsistent director/writer
245781 Ross Jones-Morris HeyUGuys Rotten 2/5 2012-10-05T04:52:13.000Z 2012-10-05 04:52:13 You can put as much gloss on top of the shaky foundations and wooden acting as possible but as soon becomes apparent - you can't varnish a turd.
245782 Roz Laws Birmingham Post Fresh 3/5 2012-10-03T05:48:13.000Z 2012-10-03 05:48:13 If you liked the other Resident Evil films, you'll like this, and the end suggests there'll be plenty more.
245783 Ed Whitfield The Ooh Tray Rotten — 2012-09-30T08:34:02.000Z 2012-09-30 08:34:02 The ending threatens yet more. Let's hope the fates intervene and put Paul and Milla in divorce court before then.
245784 James White SFX Magazine Rotten 2/5 2012-09-28T04:44:00.000Z 2012-09-28 04:44:00 More than ever, forgoes real attempts at character and story for lots of repetitive zombie skirmishes.
245785 Ben Kendrick Screen Rant Rotten 2/5 2012-09-27T18:30:57.000Z 2012-09-27 18:30:57 Resident Evil: Retribution is style-over-substance in every possible definition of the concept.
245786 Ken Hanke Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) Rotten 1/5 2012-09-27T09:33:12.000Z 2012-09-27 09:33:12 Even noisier, more incoherent, and more like watching someone play a shooter-style video game than its predecessors.
245787 Jeffrey M. Anderson Common Sense Media Rotten 2/5 2012-09-26T14:20:53.000Z 2012-09-26 14:20:53 While the last movie felt clean and more character-focused, this one seems a good deal lazier, both in the writing and directing departments.
245788 John Beifuss Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) Rotten 2/4 2012-09-21T14:02:09.000Z 2012-09-21 14:02:09 'Regurgitation' might be a more appropriate subtitle for this redundant fifth go-round...
245789 John Wirt Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) Rotten 2/4 2012-09-21T13:41:24.000Z 2012-09-21 13:41:24 Containing almost no story, Resident Evil: Retribution shows the series' video-game origin more than ever.
245790 Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle Rotten 2/5 2012-09-21T10:30:02.000Z 2012-09-21 10:30:02 Nobody goes to a Resident Evil movie expecting a classic but this fifth entry in the series is just plain cruddy.
245791 Jackie K. Cooper jackiekcooper.com Rotten 5/10 2012-09-19T13:02:08.000Z 2012-09-19 13:02:08 Milla Jovovich is still a great action heroine, but the movie is just more of the same old stuff.
245792 Brett Michel Boston Phoenix Rotten 0.5/4 2012-09-19T04:46:37.000Z 2012-09-19 04:46:37 Uwe Boll gets most of the scorn, but has anyone done more to destroy hope of a decent movie being made from a video game than Paul W.S. Anderson?
245793 Tim Brayton Antagony & Ecstasy Rotten 4/10 2012-09-18T22:20:10.000Z 2012-09-18 22:20:10 It takes a while for the film to start being bad.
245794 Scott Nash Three Movie Buffs Fresh 2.5/4 2012-09-18T16:54:11.000Z 2012-09-18 16:54:11 A mildly entertaining piece of eye-candy.
245795 Susan Granger SSG Syndicate Rotten 3/10 2012-09-18T09:25:29.000Z 2012-09-18 09:25:29 Dreary,loud and uber-violent but, having grossed nearly $700 million worldwide, there's no stopping this franchise.
245796 Kam Williams AALBC.com Rotten 1/4 2012-09-17T14:37:07.000Z 2012-09-17 14:37:07 A visually-captivating fantasy for teenage males with raging hormones, the demographic most apt to enjoy watching an invincible vixen in spandex waste wave after wave of mindless mutants.
245797 Rafer Guzman Newsday Rotten 1/4 2012-09-17T13:55:44.000Z 2012-09-17 13:55:44 The script is incoherent and the acting is terrible -- avatars would have been an improvement.
245798 Joe Neumaier New York Daily News Rotten 1/5 2012-09-17T10:15:11.000Z 2012-09-17 10:15:11 Thuddingly awful.
245799 Joe Leydon Variety Rotten — 2012-09-17T10:14:10.000Z 2012-09-17 10:14:10 Some sequels suggest that no one involved with a franchise really cares anymore.
245800 Jeff Beck Examiner.com Rotten 1.5/4 2012-09-16T19:08:21.000Z 2012-09-16 19:08:21 "Resident Evil: Retribution" brings us to the fifth entry in a series that ran out of steam a long time ago.
245801 D.K. Holm Cinemonkey Fresh — 2012-09-16T01:12:08.000Z 2012-09-16 01:12:08 Resident Evil : Retribution is the first of the series that feels like a video game
245802 Jeannette Catsoulis New York Times Rotten 2/5 2012-09-15T17:57:53.000Z 2012-09-15 17:57:53 A zombie plague may have laid waste the world, but apparently supplies of black leather unitards have yet to be exhausted.
245803 Jim Schembri 3AW Fresh 3.5/5 2012-09-15T17:23:07.000Z 2012-09-15 17:23:07 Giving their growing fanbase exactly what it expects, director W.S Anderson and Milla Jovovich deliver another thick slice of slick, glossy, futuristic action pulp.
245804 Perri Nemiroff Shockya.com Rotten 1.5/5 2012-09-15T16:15:23.000Z 2012-09-15 16:15:23 A maniacal montage of cartoonish battle sequences.
245805 Pablo Villaça Cinema em Cena Rotten 2/5 2012-09-15T12:37:10.000Z 2012-09-15 12:37:10 No tem histria; tem fases.
245806 Matt Donato We Got This Covered Fresh 6/10 2012-09-15T11:18:50.000Z 2012-09-15 11:18:50 Paul W.S. Anderson's writing may not have blown minds and our characters may not be up for any awards, but Resident Evil: Retribution showcases tantalizing big budget action on a stylistically provocative level.
245807 Matt Singer ScreenCrush Rotten 5/10 2012-09-15T08:07:53.000Z 2012-09-15 08:07:53 Anderson's action chops are undeniable - but Resident Evil: Retribution might be one of the dumbest things ever crafted by human hands.
245808 Daniel M. Kimmel Sci-Fi Movie Page Fresh 2.5/4 2012-09-15T00:41:02.000Z 2012-09-15 00:41:02 You either enjoy buff female and male characters in tight, form-fitting outfits shooting at zombies and each other, or you don't. It's really that simple.
245809 Rob Vaux Mania.com Rotten C- 2012-09-14T20:50:32.000Z 2012-09-14 20:50:32 Resident Evil: Retribution can't even pass muster for the simple standards of this series.
245810 Kevin Carr Fat Guys at the Movies Rotten 1.5/5 2012-09-14T20:49:08.000Z 2012-09-14 20:49:08 I half-believed this movie was, indeed, a video game that Paul W.S. Anderson was playing in his underwear while smoking a bong.
245811 Peter Sobczynski eFilmCritic.com Fresh 4/5 2012-09-14T18:59:10.000Z 2012-09-14 18:59:10 a work so completely removed from lucidity or linearity that if it bore the signature of Luis Bunuel or Seijun Sezuki instead of that of Paul W.S. "The Other Master" Anderson, it would be celebrated as a masterpiece of experimental cinema.
245812 Jaime N. Christley Slant Magazine Fresh 3.5/4 2012-09-14T17:59:07.000Z 2012-09-14 17:59:07 At this point in the franchise, Anderson is content to alight the saga on a perpetual rewind loop, ever-ending, ever-rebooting, all subsidized by his nonpareil compositional sense.
245813 Mike McGranaghan Aisle Seat Rotten 1.5/4 2012-09-14T17:59:03.000Z 2012-09-14 17:59:03 Director Paul W.S. Anderson really nails the feeling of a character walking into a room and opening fire upon a horde of nondescript bad guys, then walking into another room and doing the exact same thing, ad nauseum.
245814 Clark Collis Entertainment Weekly Fresh B- 2012-09-14T17:25:34.000Z 2012-09-14 17:25:34 During the film's final sequence the director explains all while also suggesting that the franchise's nuttiest days are, remarkably, yet to come.
245815 Tasha Robinson AV Club Rotten C 2012-09-14T17:24:22.000Z 2012-09-14 17:24:22 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.
245816 Stephanie Zacharek Film.com Rotten — 2012-09-14T16:17:50.000Z 2012-09-14 16:17:50 Writer-director Paul W.S. Anderson ... attempts to fill out a flimsy plot structure by making the characters' comings and goings overly convoluted.
245817 Joshua Tyler Giant Freakin Robot Rotten 2/5 2012-09-14T16:17:21.000Z 2012-09-14 16:17:21 Most franchises which make it to 5 movies start to run out of ideas by then, but if Retribution has one glaring problem it's that it has far too many of them.
245818 David Ehrlich Boxoffice Magazine Fresh 3/5 2012-09-14T14:53:27.000Z 2012-09-14 14:53:27 Resident Evil movies don't tell stories so much as they provide variations on a theme, and that theme is: a pubescent boy's wet dream recast as an antiseptic dub-step nightmare
245819 Nick Pinkerton Village Voice Fresh — 2012-09-14T14:26:38.000Z 2012-09-14 14:26:38 Diagramming every revolution of Jovovich in wheeling and whirling action, however, Anderson is pitch-perfect when singing the body electric.
245820 Jenni Miller Hollywood.com Rotten 1/5 2012-09-14T14:24:24.000Z 2012-09-14 14:24:24 We don't go to video game movies for plot, of course, but there has to be something to hold onto; otherwise, why would we care if our protagonist were in danger?
245821 Alison Willmore Movieline Rotten 5/10 2012-09-14T14:23:00.000Z 2012-09-14 14:23:00 The film's extravagant action scenes have not a whiff of consequence to them, and other than Alice, the foremost quality of all of the characters is their disposability.
245822 Wilson Morales BlackFilm.com Rotten 1/5 2012-09-14T13:10:29.000Z 2012-09-14 13:10:29 Resurrecting some dead characters from the previous films doesn't do much from moving this lifeless film to an exciting action film fans want to enjoy.
245823 William Bibbiani CraveOnline Fresh 7.5/10 2012-09-14T12:40:10.000Z 2012-09-14 12:40:10 We do not expect quality from Resident Evil any longer. We expect our brains to be expunged of common sense and pumped full of endorphins wearing fetish costumes.
245824 Robert Abele Los Angeles Times Rotten 1.5/5 2012-09-14T12:24:56.000Z 2012-09-14 12:24:56 If they ran these scenes at normal speed, would 95 dreary minutes become a much more expedient 20 to 25?
245825 Scott Weinberg FEARnet Rotten 2/5 2012-09-14T11:46:25.000Z 2012-09-14 11:46:25 The horror sequel equivalent of a "clip show" episode of Friends.
245826 Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter Rotten — 2012-09-14T11:18:31.000Z 2012-09-14 11:18:31 Endless video-game-style, violent mayhem is on display in this latest edition of the mind-numbing apocalypse series.
245827 Brad Miska Bloody Disgusting Fresh 3/5 2012-09-14T08:21:12.000Z 2012-09-14 08:21:12 As far as a Paul W.S. Anderson 'Resident Evil' goes, ['Retribution' is] a mind-melting popcorn film gelled with insane amounts of action-packed eye-candy.
245828 Brian Orndorf Blu-ray.com Rotten D+ 2012-09-14T07:19:50.000Z 2012-09-14 07:19:50 It doesn't help to have Jovovich, Guillory, and Rodriguez in charge of the acting here. The three anti-Streeps slog through Anderson's god-awful dialogue with a peculiar drowsiness.
245829 Dustin Putman TheFilmFile.com Rotten 1.5/4 2012-09-14T04:07:54.000Z 2012-09-14 04:07:54 Proves without a shadow of a doubt that this franchise is just jerking viewers around as it paces in circles. At some point, even Alice is going to have to admit that she's been wasting her time.
245830 Adam Litovitz Globe and Mail Rotten 1.5/4 2012-09-14T03:01:02.000Z 2012-09-14 03:01:02 Like an established pizza chain, director Anderson is in thrall to a guarantee: all relationships, of any significance, will be established in three seconds or less.
245831 Heather Wixson Dread Central Fresh 3/5 2012-09-14T01:51:27.000Z 2012-09-14 01:51:27 For those of you out there who dig on these overblown popcorn flicks, the fifth installment in the Resident Evil franchise is certainly one of the better chapters in this ongoing story.
245832 Liam Maguren Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) Rotten 1/5 2012-09-13T16:43:52.000Z 2012-09-13 16:43:52 Lacks inventiveness in any single fibre of its being - and worse, it's dull.
245833 Katherine Monk Vancouver Sun Rotten — 2012-09-13T12:08:30.000Z 2012-09-13 12:08:30 Easily the worst outing in an already mediocre movie series.
245834 Bruce Kirkland Jam! Movies Fresh 3/5 2012-09-13T10:24:20.000Z 2012-09-13 10:24:20 The movie is convoluted, of course, but it is also slick, savage and thrilling.
245835 Linda Barnard Toronto Star Rotten 1.5/4 2012-09-13T03:27:22.000Z 2012-09-13 03:27:22 It's all the same blah-blah carnage as the first four flicks, with 3D effects hurling blood, blades and body parts into the audience amid a non-stop barrage of gunfire and explosions.

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