“Resident Evil: Extinction” feels like a cross between “Mad Max” and “Day of the Dead” and perhaps that’s fitting for a third instalment in the “Resident Evil” franchise. I liked the first film, I didn’t care much for the second and this third outing doesn’t really do much to revive my interest in the series.

In “Resident Evil: Extinction”, Milla Jovovich (“The Fifth Element”, “Resident Evil”) returns as Alice as she now treks across the desert. She meets up with a convoy of survivors as she hopes to stop the evil Umbrella corporation and survive the undead plague that has now left the world in ruins. However, Umbrella wishes to conduct experiments on the zombies.

Milla Jovovich kicks and shoots her way through zombies and is left with very little to say or do to make us remember why she’s a good actress. The other characters are really dull and you won’t get to know really anything about any of them before they’re being attacked by zombies. This film features both hordes of regular zombies and zombie birds. The scene with the birds will undoubtedly remind you of “The Birds” from Alfred Hitchcock. Sadly, the final zombie creature isn’t anything special.

The first film was set in an underground lab, the next was in a city and this one is in the desert so at least you can say that you get a nice variety of scenery with the “Resident Evil” films. The action sequences are alright but there isn’t much else to enjoy in this picture. “Resident Evil: Extinction” ends just like the last two with no real progress in terms of stopping the zombies so I guess will have to wait until they make a “Resident Evil: Resolution” to see how things end. If you liked the previous two then you’ll probably like this one and if you didn’t care for either of them, I doubt moving things to the desert will greatly impact on your enjoyment of this zombie saga.