YMMV / Resident Evil: Afterlife

• Ass Pull: See the series' page.
• Awesome Music:
  • The opening theme has been known to induce random audience head-bobbing.
  • "The Outsider" by A Perfect Circle, specifically the Renholdër mix, returns from the Resident Evil: Apocalypse soundtrack. During the final fight with Wesker, being that the song's lyrics are generally a "Reason You Suck" Speech, it's can be taken on a meta level that it's reflecting Wesker's thoughts on Alice.
• Broken Base: Should have the clone army received more screentime? Some think it was good to remove it, while others would have wanted the plot to use it for anything better than a gigantic Sacrificial Lion.
• He's Just Hiding:
  • Before the release of Resident Evil: Retribution, fans speculated that Wesker survived the helicopter mini-nuke at the ending of the movie. This is supported by some eagle-eyed viewers noticing a parachute opening in the distance when one of the characters revealed himself to have survived. Wesker's survival was later confirmed by a press release for Retribution.
  • Some fans like to think that Nice Girl Crystal survives and that the blood in the water after she's yanked into a flooded hallway is from her killing a zombie before staying underwater to hide until the rest passed by rather than one of the zombies killing her.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The character Crystal Waters is an actress before the zombie apocalypse. The name sounds unintentionally like a nod to Clear Rivers from Final Destination, who is portrayed by Claire Redfield's actress Ali Larter.
• Narm:
  • Even if it is meant to be a Call-Back to an exposition line by the Red Queen in the first film, Wesker's line about how he must ingest fresh DNA can draw laughs for how absurd it is.
  • The T-Virus being shaped like actual Ts.
  • Star power, bitches!
  • Claire backing away from the Executioner looks like she's breakdancing.
• Take That, Scrappy!: Alice gets brought down to normal, ends up on the receiving end of a Curb-Stomp Battle, and has all of her clones wiped out. For many, it was considered to be the best thing that the directors did to try and redeem Extinction. But since Alice is improbably overjoyed by the turn of events, is still the only character to actually do anything, and remains somehow still capable of doing her ludicrous stunts even without superpowers, it's ultimately kind of a moot point.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Crystal and Angel's characters don't really get enough lines or prominence, given their performances. In fact, out of the whole group only Luther, Chris and Bennett receive enough characterization to stand out. It is especially bad because Afterlife is the only film from the whole Resident Evil movie franchise to lack a novelization.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Controversial as the idea could be, the previous film has it to where Alice stumbles upon an entire storage unit of her clones, and the build up to this movie was pretty much based around the fact there was an army of superpowered women taking on Umbrella. However, in the first five minutes of Afterlife, all of them are killed after the base in Tokyo self destructs. A lot of fans looking forward to this were obviously ticked off.
• Took the Bad Film Seriously: Shawn Roberts tried to make Wesker's mannerisms and acting as close to his character's video game counterpart as he could:
  "He's got everything going for him—he's super fast, super strong, has the ability to regenerate—it's all the elements from the game. That was one thing we all agreed on from the start: this character has to be for the fans."