4X4: PAUL WS ANDERSON: RESIDENT EVIL 5 & THREE MUSKETEERS

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PAUL WS PART DEUX: THE THREE EVILS/FAREWELL TO JACK
In part one of our Paul WS Anderson two parter, we discussed two early classics that offered two very different paths young WS could take: The silly and bombastic effects-laden video game adaptation Mortal Kombat or the grim space-horror classic Event Horizon.
Kombat was successful and Horizon was not and so, four years after Anderson's grim and lifeless Soldier flopped spectacularly, he returned to video games adaptations with Resident Evil in 2002 and has generally stayed in that lane since, mostly working with wife Milla Jovovich.
One exception is his 2011 adaptation/version/fever dream of Alexander Dumas' 1844 novel The Three Musketeers but with, as Wikipedia informs us, "clock-punk" elements. Beloved by co-host Jack and his sister Annabel (who chose Anderson and these four films despite being in Italy and unable to record with us), it is quite nuts with the surprisingly great cast of Matthew Macfayden (Tom in Succession!), Ray Stevenson, Milla, Mads Mikkelsen and Christolph Waltz. Dang. Besides this great cast, it also has James Corden! Please listen for how truly odd, but strangely engaging, this bizarro film is before we move onto...
Resident Evil 5: Retribution (2012), the second of Anderson's trilogy to end the franchise (its 4th, 5th and 6th films). Besides Jovovich early on in a wig being a dead ringer for Taylor Swift, there is very little of interest here if you aren't a hardcore series fans. There are a few sequences when Anderson recaptures a bit of his technical bravado from his Mortal Kombat days but it is mostly bad CGI and overhead shots of ladies doing flips over bad guys they then shoot with a bunch of actors cast from flipping through an issue of Vogue while waiting at the dentist.
BONUS: We have a very special Paul WS Anderson quiz to end the episode that almost killed Ken and Jack while recording.
Speaking of Jack, we bid him adieu as co-host for the time being before his extended trip to France to join the Musketeers.
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