This is strictly for fans of the series. If you’re looking for something more “artistic”, go watch “Coriolanus” that’s a modernized version of Shakespeare’s play. But loyal fans will surely like seeing Kate again garbed in her skintight black latex costume and once more kicking ass. She and Michael get separated and she wakes up years later from cryogenic slumber in a lab called Antigen where Dr. Jacob Lane (Stephen Rea of “The Crying Game”) is boss.
The past films look like they were inspired by “The Matrix” production design. Now that it’s set in a lab, it reminds you of the “Resident Evil” series. The difference is that Kate is now a mom. To breathe new life to the series, she has given birth to a teenage girl named Eve (India Eisley, real life daughter of Olivia Hussey who played Juliet in Franco Zefirelli’s version years ago), a vampire-werewolf hybrid. It turns out Dr. Jacob has his own secret son, Quint (Kris Holden Ried), who looks more like a rock star but is actually the most monstrous werewolf that Kate would ever encounter.
Personally, we think this is the most exciting edition in the series, with bigger budgeted and better staged action scenes that would surely look more thrilling on 3-D. Kate is definitely in top form here. You know she’s aided by CGI and wire works but she makes it all very credible. There’s also an eye-popping scene where she performs heart surgery with bare hands on a guy whose heart has stopped beating.
Angelina Jolie is often considered the top female action star but she’s now being challenged not only by Kate but also Milla Jovovich as Alice in the “Resident Evil” franchise (the 5th edition is coming out soon) and Gina Carano in “Haywire”.
