Cinemacom a hint of history, extermination 3 fails when trying to be filming

Portraying the end of times and the devastation of the planet and humanity, zombie stories are full dishes for a multitude of narratives. No wonder there are numerous productions of its kind and many others come each year. However, they are not all that can impress fans of such a “beaten” genre to the point of keeping them invested for almost 20 years without news, as is the case with Extermination.

Started in 2002 under the command of Danny Boyle(Trainspotting, Who wants to be a millionaire?), Alex Garland (of Civil warwith Wagner Moura) and starred by Cillian MurphyOscar winner for OPPENHEIMER (2023), the franchise has just won a third chapter, Extermination: Evolutionwhich is already on display in Brazilian theaters.

Ignoring the plot of the first sequence, Extermination 2launched in 2007, and with few calls with the original feature, the news features a new group of survivors, isolated on an island that tries to live a normal life 28 years after the United Kingdom is devastated by a mutation of the anger virus.

From the first trailers released, packed by the poem Boots (Bootsin free translation), Rudyard Kiplingin which the author imagines a cycle of wars as an eternal march of humanity to hell, Extermination: Evolution It has presented itself as the foreshadowing of something sublime: a great confrontation against the infected, a struggle for survival between those who still resist in a devastated land or something.

However, any boldness that the novelty could have is replaced by exaggerated didacticism, clichés of shame and a weak and absurdly convenient script that purges the suspense of the experience, leaving it completely sterile.

In the first part of the story, when Jamie (Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Kraven: The Hunter) takes the son, Spike (Alfie Williams, The King of Crime), to visit the continent for the first time, it seems that we are going through the prologue of a video game game.

In it, we learned how to situate ourselves in that new world: how to get out of the island, how to walk the continent, who is the enemy, how to kill him. They are like small missions, so that we can learn to handle your weapon, to see fear as a reality and know how to deal in a stressful situation – with the right to face the “boss” of that phase and everything.

But this is just the first test. The story really begins when the pair returns to the isolation of their island and, in a conversation with one of their neighbors, Spike He finds that there is a doctor on the continent and, despite the bad languages, he can help discover what is wrong with his mother, Isla (Jodie, Free Guy: assuming control), and help her with a mysterious disease that has tormented her for a while.

In conflict with the father, Spike He kidnaps his mother and manages to take her to the continent, despite her weakens. And that’s where the horrors show begins: everything is very convenient for the boy’s journey. At no time is there what to fear, because we know that each “limitation situation” will be favorable Spike.

A horde of zombies in your glue? The boy becomes a master and arrow master. A convenience store dipped in gas? She can even explode, but the boy will be unharmed. Is there a long way to go with the incapable mother? There will be no infected on the way. Are you in the sights of one of the monsters? The mother will recover miraculously to save him. And these moments extend to the last minutes of the movie.

The ability to Alex Garland To deliver a movie of almost two hours with the content of a short of 10 or 15 minutes, at most, about a boy seeking hope in a world where it no longer exists. It could work if we really cared about these characters, but there is not enough development for it to happen.

Danny Boylein turn, perhaps in an attempt to innovate the franchise after so many years, he exchanged the almost documentary and realistic style of Exterminationwho conquered people in the first place, by a direction … extravagant, to say the least, responsible for completing the voids of the script Garland.

There are great moments – the scene in which Spike It is on a bridge with a waterfall falling behind him is one of them, among other beautiful shots – but there is an exaggeration in overlapping images and some doubtful choices – such as the way to portray the zombie deaths, with an embarrassing effect similar to those of the games of games Mortal Kombat– that make the experience tiring and with the air that it is trying too much to be something that is actually not.

Who expected to know more about the universe of Exterminationespecially almost 30 years after exposure to the deadly virus, it should be frustrated by Extermination: Evolution: Such evolution was only in the Brazilian title and what we have is an unintended movie or direction, which only emulates what we have seen so many times in other productions of the genre, as The Last of Us and The Walking Dead.

I would say it is a pity a franchise with such potential to have an end like these, but Extermination already has a new chapter, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (Extermination: The Temple of Bonesin free translation), already recorded and confirmed for 2026. What I have left is to hope that, in the new film, the proposal to show the evolution of the epidemic over the years has been better worked. Nobody wants one COPY/PASTE From the first movie, it is obvious, but you can’t talk about evolution when, 28 years earlier, we knew more about this universe than we know now.

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