The conclusion to all the Milla Jovovich Resident Evil movies, send Alice back to Raccoon City to find an airborne antivirus that could destroy the T-virus that made all these zombies. Does that mean those people will go back to being alive? Of course not! They'll all just die permanently.
Oh, and she has to get there and release the virus in 48 hours or the last holdouts of humanity - roughly 4500 people - will be overrun by the undead. Of course that annoying Neo-ripoff looking dipshit Wesker is there waiting, and the scientist guy we thought Alice killed in the third movie (Resident Evil: Extinction) turned out to be a clone, because here's another one. This one thinks of the undead as like a Biblical flood to cleanse the Earth. I should have known it would be religious fundamentalists who ended the world.
I don't remember if any of the other films explained quite why Umbrella was working on something like a T-virus. I always assumed it was to create weapons to sell for fat cash and things got out of hand, ala any number of other science fiction stories. Apparently that was not the case.
The biggest impression I had from the movie was, "too long." It's only about 110 minutes, but every scene seems to go on longer than it needs to. The big fight between Alice, Claire (Ali Larter) and Dr. Isaacs feels like it misses at least one natural conclusion. During the fight in the hallway with the laser defense system (because this is movie is full of callbacks to the previous films), there's at least one place where I thought, "OK, kill him there," and instead, the fight keeps going. What is supposed to somehow take place in less than 3.5 minutes drags on for like 15. Same thing during her first fight with Religious Wackjob Isaacs on top of his rolling battle wagon. They kick, they punch, he tries to stab her, she disarms him, repeat at least twice.
Also, Alice wrecks three different vehicles and gets knocked unconscious and captured twice in the first half-hour. Which could be good, if the movie used that. Time slipping away, Alice stuck dealing with all these people either out for revenge or just trying to survive when she's meant to be saving humanity. But it doesn't do that. Instead, they take the time for Alice to act like a general leading a small holdout of people who've built a place in Raccoon City (shades of the group holed up in the police station in the fourth movie) from Religious Wackjob Isaacs and all the undead he's got chasing him. They start preparing in the middle of the day, the battle is at night, and only after that, do they try and go get the antivirus.
What if the battle went too long, or hell, they lost? Then the antivirus is never getting released. There is just no urgency to anything they're doing. Once they infiltrate "The Hive", the only time they run is when something is actively chasing them. Normally I would applaud caution given the likelihood of security measures, but again, they're on a schedule. One that both Alice and the holographic little girl keep pointing out. So why don't you fucking run then?! If you're really not interested in getting rid of the zombies, there have to be better things to do with your time than this.
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