There are two ways to look at the new to DVD movie Resident Evil: Extinction. You can either see it as the best yet in the series of Resident Evil video game adapted (possibly better stated, inspired) movies, or you can see it as just another poorly executed zombie movie with bad actors and cheesy dialogue. As the former, it’s actually quite good. But that’s only because the first two Resident Evil movies were so horrendously bad. And to say a movie is good, only because it’s not as bad as what came before it… well that’s just not a glowing recommendation no matter how you spin it.

Even as the best of bad trilogy, I still found myself wincing every few minutes due to a continuous string of bad decisions made by not just by the director, but also by the writers, the actors, the makeup artists and nearly everyone else involved in the film.

I’m a strong proponent of the willing suspension of disbelief needed to enjoy sci-fi and horror movies. I’ll let myself believe that it is possible to reanimate dead tissue; I’ll let myself believe that there is a private corporation large enough to have massive city-sized underground bunkers on every continent; I’ll even let myself believe such a company could create an artificial intelligence that is capable of projecting itself, in holographic form as a small child, in any area of any of these complexes. To enjoy Sci-Fi and Horror, these are things that you must be willing to embrace. After all, it’s not that huge of leap from HAL 9000 to a computer’s manifestation of an eerily innocent looking little girl who goes on a homicidal killing spree. Then again maybe it is.

I point these things out, though, to show how far I am willing to suspend my own disbelief before I truly start to question the movie. But when Alice, played again by Milla Jovovich, suddenly finds herself endowed with psychic powers that allow her to lift heavy objects and fry the circuits of a satellite passing somewhere far overhead with her just mind, I find it impossible to play along anymore. At that point Extinction degrades into just another B horror movie with mediocre actors hamming up already bad dialogue.

All that said, if you enjoy mindless zombie killing (I do), post apocalyptic scenarios (I do) and gunfights (I do), it's still worth renting.