Synopsis:

Much like the first Biohazard and its prequel, my aim was to strip the films of cheesy one-liners and overdone action to help make the films more enjoyable. As I did with the original Biohazard, I restored a couple of deleted scenes to add more character moments.

Intentions:

Oscar worthy they may not be, the Resident Evil films have also been among my favorite films because of just how much fun they are. Arguably, one-liners are sort of there to make things more fun, but I'm more a fan of letting the action be a bit more "look at how outrageous this all is" as opposed to "hurr hurr catchphrase".

Change List:

ADDED: Aztek Fan Edit Classics bumper to start. CHANGED: Opening. It now begins with the scene from the end of Afterlife. NEW: Opening credits. NEW: "My name is Alice" prologue using voiceover from Afterlife and clips from the previous three films. CUT: Wesker inquiring about lost sentries. CUT: Extra shot of Alice emerging from air vent. CUT: "Hey boys, is that any way to treat a lady?" The clones just perforate them buggers. CUT: Wesker asking for damage reports on the facility. RERRANGED: Osprey scene to get the dialogue to flow better. CUT: "Last words?" CUT: 40 second pan around of the interioir of the Osprey when it crashes. REPLACED: "Six months later" title card. CUT: Fade out before Alice lands in the airplane graveyard. CHANGED: The airplane graveyard scene (and the beach) have been darkened. CUT: Crows flying from the empty plane before Alice is attacked. CUT: Fade out after Alice discovers the scarab. CUT: Fade out before Alice and Claire continue travelling. CHANGED: The tracking shots have been changed from green to red to reflect that (in this version) Wesker has gone rogue and the Red Queen is monitoring them. CUT: "Technically it's called crashing." REMOVED: Some digital artifacts/damage in the nighttime prison scene. CUT: Luther's quip at Alice not being able to land the plane again. CUT: "I have time to waste." CUT: "Until we made a discovery." CUT: "You don't trust me" exchange between Chris and Alice. CHANGED: Darkened the shower room where the undead breaks through the floor to make it appear to actually be night. CUT: Axeman walking through the streets. CUT: Chris telling Alice they can't go back the way they went to the armory. You don't say? CUT: Prison rooftop escape scene. TRIMMED: Slow motion during Axeman fight. CHANGED: The end of the Axeman fight with Claire killing it instead of Alice. CUT: "Looks like Bennett made it" to make his fate more ambiguous (word of God, aka editor: he died). CUT: "We have to search every part of this ship." CUT: Entire Wesker encounter. ADDED: Bits from the opening scene (the Ospreys approaching the Arcadia) and Jill walking amongst the Umbrella troops over Alice's speech. INSERTED: Arcadia battle. It's primarily sourced from the scene in Retribution immediately following the opening credits, with a few rearrangements and a shot taken from the credits was added back in here. Slow motion was also added (again, from the credits) in a few spots near the end. CUT: Entire "Suburbia" sequence. It worked to introduce Becky, but since we're following Alice, we really don't need to see her until Alice finds her. CUT: Alice's line "Now the real question is..." CUT: Alice preparing the blow the windows out of the Umbrella Prime control room. CUT: Barry's line "Looks abandoned" in reference to the Umbrella ship graveyard. CUT: "Do you trust her?"/"Put in the numbers." ADDED: Deleted scene with Jill in the control room. RECUT: The New York and Moscow scenes are now edited to appear to take place simultaneously. CUT: Undead springing from the closet in the house before Alice finds Becky. RECUT: The Moscow sequence is now peppered through the Suburbia sequence. ADDED: Deleted scene with Ada and Alice in the house. CUT: Ada hiding. We see her grab the gun, but not shooting out the floor in the house. CUT: Alice being shot in the side. This went absolutely nowhere in the theatrical cut of Retribution. At all. CUT: "Sweet ride."/"Well this is Moscow." What does that even mean? CUT: Leon saying Ada "always has a plan." CUT: Alice asking Barry and Leon if they'd "mind" shooting at their pursuers. TRIMMED: The car chase a bit. CUT: Alice and co. getting out of the car. CUT: Super Licker bursting from the rubble. CUT: Another instance of Alice being wounded. CUT: Leon's "Told you she had a plan." Calm yourself, loverboy. CUT: A bit of hangtime right before Alice and Jill start punching each other. CUT: "I'm coming for you!" Good for you! :D NEW: End credits. REPLACED MUSIC: "Army of Me" by Bjork and "Not Your Kind of People" by Garbage.

Additional Notes:

My aim was to strip the films of cheesy one-liners and overdone action to help make the films more enjoyable. As I did with the original Biohazard, I restored a couple of deleted scenes to add more character moments.

Other Sources:

Resident Evil, Apocalypse, and Extinction. "Army of Me" by Bjork "Not Your Kind of People" by Garbage "Entering TYM" by Michael McCann.

Special Thanks:

bionicbob, juice4z0