Resident Evil: Extinction

Russell Mulcahy - director of such epic crowd pleasers as Highlander II and Tale of the Mummy - certainly doesn't mess around when it comes to trite brain-dead action. Resident Evil: Extinction tells the near Shakespearean tale of one young woman's struggle to save herself and an obligatory cast of no-mark soap stars from a planet infested with zombies. Kicking off like a cross between Mad Max and Deliverance, the first ten minutes throw you in at the deep end, which is what you really want from a film not pretending to be anything other than unadulterated monster mayhem. The average life expectancy of the humans is reassuringly short and mangled, and munched up corpses litter the screen, allowing us to ditch pesky concepts like character development. If you like blood, violence and women wielding weapons go and see a psychiatrist, but first do feel free to check this out. [Christopher Hammond]