So everybody's (or at least my) favorite female action star returns in Resident Evil: Extinction. Cool! Sounds great! Sorry to say that it does not necessarily end great. If you are a really big geek, like me, and take the time to read the novelization of this zombie action flick you probably won't be so disappointed. Unfortunately, if you are like most people you will just skip right to the movie, which wasn't as good. Everybody knows that the book is usually better than the movie, but in this case, I was surprised to find the book-which is based on the movie-was still quite a bit better. Keith RA DeCandido, who I had never heard of prior to picking the book off the shelf, is a good writer in his third novelization of this series. He gives multiple characters believable and sometimes comical backgrounds, none of which comes through in the movie.

The main character of Alice is literally above what an average human is capable of. This one thing which comes up multiple times and is well panned out in the book; where in the movie the director just seems to flip a switch and turns from a soft-spoken average woman into a comic book superhero. Boom. Pow! She's not supposed to be Zombie-girl. Latter parts of the movie, especially with Carlos, come across as very cheesy. The one positive thing is that this series was able to include the traditional slow zombies and the new-age remake "fast zombies" as well as the possibility of a cure, which rarely happens when the dead stop walking around. It goes beyond simple survival which is a positive move for the series, I just hope Alice can end it all before the undead start to falter in their performances too.