Biohazard: Uprising

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Biohazard: Uprising
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Original Release Date:
2010/2012
Original Running Time:
193
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Fanedit Running Time:
145
Time Cut:
55
Time Added:
5
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Brief Synopsis:
Much like the first Biohazard and its prequel, my aim was to strip the films of cheesy one-liners and overdone action to help make the films more enjoyable. As I did with the original Biohazard, I restored a couple of deleted scenes to add more character moments.
Intention:
Oscar worthy they may not be, the Resident Evil films have also been among my favorite films because of just how much fun they are. Arguably, one-liners are sort of there to make things more fun, but I'm more a fan of letting the action be a bit more "look at how outrageous this all is" as opposed to "hurr hurr catchphrase."
Other Sources:
Resident Evil, Apocalypse, and Extinction.
"Army of Me" by Bjork
"Not Your Kind of People" by Garbage
"Entering TYM" by Michael McCann
Special Thanks:
bionicbob, juice4z0
Release Information:
  • DVD
  • Blu-Ray
  • Digital
Special Features
"Prison Rooftop" Deleted Scene
Arcadia Battle - Opening Credits version (the opening credits for Retribution reversed so the battle plays out chronologically)
Editing Details:
My aim was to strip the films of cheesy one-liners and overdone action to help make the films more enjoyable. As I did with the original Biohazard, I restored a couple of deleted scenes to add more character moments.
Cuts and Additions:
ADDED: Aztek Fan Edit Classics bumper to start.
CHANGED: Opening. It now begins with the scene from the end of Afterlife.
NEW: Opening credits.
NEW: "My name is Alice" prologue using voiceover from Afterlife and clips from the previous three films.
CUT: Wesker inquiring about lost sentries.
CUT: Extra shot of Alice emerging from air vent.
CUT: "Hey boys, is that any way to treat a lady?" The clones just perforate them buggers.
CUT: Wesker asking for damage reports on the facility.
RERRANGED: Osprey scene to get the dialogue to flow better.
CUT: "Last words?"
CUT: 40 second pan around of the interioir of the Osprey when it crashes.
REPLACED: "Six months later" title card.
CUT: Fade out before Alice lands in the airplane graveyard.
CHANGED: The airplane graveyard scene (and the beach) have been darkened.
CUT: Crows flying from the empty plane before Alice is attacked.
CUT: Fade out after Alice discovers the scarab.
CUT: Fade out before Alice and Claire continue travelling.
CHANGED: The tracking shots have been changed from green to red to reflect that (in this version) Wesker has gone rogue and the Red Queen is monitoring them.
CUT: "Technically it's called crashing."
REMOVED: Some digital artifacts/damage in the nighttime prison scene.
CUT: Luther's quip at Alice not being able to land the plane again.
CUT: "I have time to waste."
CUT: "Until we made a discovery."
CUT: "You don't trust me" exchange between Chris and Alice.
CHANGED: Darkened the shower room where the undead breaks through the floor to make it appear to actually be night.
CUT: Axeman walking through the streets.
CUT: Chris telling Alice they can't go back the way they went to the armory. You don't say?
CUT: Prison rooftop escape scene.
TRIMMED: Slow motion during Axeman fight.
CHANGED: The end of the Axeman fight with Claire killing it instead of Alice.
CUT: "Looks like Bennett made it" to make his fate more ambiguous (word of God, aka editor: he died).
CUT: "We have to search every part of this ship."
CUT: Entire Wesker encounter.
ADDED: Bits from the opening scene (the Ospreys approaching the Arcadia) and Jill walking amongst the Umbrella troops over Alice's speech.
INSERTED: Arcadia battle. It's primarily sourced from the scene in Retribution immediately following the opening credits, with a few rearrangements and a shot taken from the credits was added back in here. Slow motion was also added (again, from the credits) in a few spots near the end.
CUT: Entire "Suburbia" sequence. It worked to introduce Becky, but since we're following Alice, we really don't need to see her until Alice finds her.
CUT: Alice's line "Now the real question is..."
CUT: Alice preparing the blow the windows out of the Umbrella Prime control room.
CUT: Barry's line "Looks abandoned" in reference to the Umbrella ship graveyard.
CUT: "Do you trust her?"/"Put in the numbers."
ADDED: Deleted scene with Jill in the control room.
RECUT: The New York and Moscow scenes are now edited to appear to take place simultaneously.
CUT: Undead springing from the closet in the house before Alice finds Becky.
RECUT: The Moscow sequence is now peppered through the Suburbia sequence.
ADDED: Deleted scene with Ada and Alice in the house.
CUT: Ada hiding. We see her grab the gun, but not shooting out the floor in the house.
CUT: Alice being shot in the side. This went absolutely nowhere in the theatrical cut of Retribution. At all.
CUT: "Sweet ride."/"Well this is Moscow." What does that even mean?
CUT: Leon saying Ada "always has a plan."
CUT: Alice asking Barry and Leon if they'd "mind" shooting at their pursuers.
TRIMMED: The car chase a bit.
CUT: Alice and co. getting out of the car.
CUT: Super Licker bursting from the rubble.
CUT: Another instance of Alice being wounded.
CUT: Leon's "Told you she had a plan." Calm yourself, loverboy.
CUT: A bit of hangtime right before Alice and Jill start punching each other.
CUT: "I'm coming for you!" Good for you! :D
NEW: End credits.
REPLACED MUSIC: "Army of Me" by Bjork and "Not Your Kind of People" by Garbage.
Cover art by Aztek463 (DOWNLOAD HERE) image

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5 reviews
Overall rating
 
8.9
Audio/Video Quality
 
9.6(5)
Audio Editing
 
9.2(5)
Visual Editing
 
9.4(5)
Narrative
 
8.4(5)
Enjoyment
 
8.0(5)
Overall rating
 
8.4
Audio/Video Quality
 
9.0
Audio Editing
 
9.0
Visual Editing
 
9.0
Narrative
 
7.0
Enjoyment
 
8.0

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(Updated: September 28, 2014)
Overall rating
 
8.6
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10.0
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9.0
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9.0
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8.0
Enjoyment
 
7.0
As you should know, the Resident Evil movies have been getting progressively more absurd with each instalment.
Stupid yet fun action went utterly ridiculous. Characters went from somewhat developed to flat video-game cameos.
Dialogue went from cringe-worthy lines 'here and there' to atrocious throughout. Story-writing went from derivative to immature rip-off.
Too many sets and action pieces replaced by CGI etc.
As such, I knew right away that I wasn't going to enjoy my time with Biohazard: Uprising as much as I did with Aztek463's first Biohazard project.
Sometimes I don't know why I'm a fan of these movies, especially considering the adjectives above...

The result is, Biohazard: Uprising is still not a particularly enjoyable watch, I simply feel too many aspects of the originals are unsalvageable.
That said, with some beers and a couple of friends it won't be a bad experience... It just might not be a very good one either.

Into the nitty-gritty for those of interest:

Let's start with the opening. Not sure why Aztek463 decided to go with a scene from the end of Afterlife, especially considering the numerous changes throughout his Biohazard series that place things in a more chronological order.
The original opening was kinda cool, a bit slow and inconsequential, probably would have been a neat intro to Retribution rather than Afterlife. Without the scene, the later tie-in in the Tokyo portion of Retribution is less of an 'oh-cool' moment and more just 'zombies be happening'.
Confused why this change was made.

New credits and titles look good, new "My name is Alice" prologue is fine.

Lots of great minor cuts and tweaks all over. Cannot understate this.

I remember being quite dumbfounded by the clone attack sequence when I first saw Afterlife; Paul W.S. Anderson states outright that he's given up on putting legitimate effort into this franchise.
We're treated with a big poorly done Matrix franchise rip-off and all the clones are killed off immediately after they had any usefulness. Enough ranting though.
At the part where Alice uses her mind powers to tear up the floor, there is an unnecessary fade to white after the car windows are blown out, and the fade back in is just as ugly and pointless.
I'm hoping it's just something Aztek didn't think to cut as opposed to added-in but the result is the same: it doesn't work and shouldn't be there.
At-least some of the awful dialogue is gone, Wesker isn't as dumb, and the worst offender of perhaps the entire franchise: "Hey boys, is that any way to treat a lady?" is missing.
And I do mean 'missing', as what's left is a little confusing to watch. Perhaps Aztek could have put the portion "hey boys" or just "hey" over earlier footage before cutting to the clones shooting.

The whole injection to lose powers then later to regain powers perhaps coulda been cut somehow?
It's pointless, Alice is still very capable during the time without them. Maybe it would make a bit less sense as to why she's not using them at points, but I would have been happier if that stupid sub-plot was missing completely.
Any excuse to remove the terrible T-virus CGI, very insulting to the audience.

Another ugly transition in and out of white (with some colour transition?) when the Osprey crashes with Wesker and Alice on board.

Initially, my biggest problem with Afterlife was the scenes with Alice flying off to find Arcadia.
The monologues are terrible and I still find them to be tiresome here but I guess we need boring exposition...
Almost nothing comes from the whole situation other than Alice finding Claire and introducing the stupid bug-plant plot device.
The scenes don't seem to drag quite as much in Uprising. All I can see in the cut-list is the removal of some fades, it's helped I think.
One thing I noticed is that when Alice is on the beach, right before running off to discover Claire there is a flash of a character (I assume it's Claire) in the foreground, a cheap directorial gimmick that was removed in Biohazard.
Then again not sure how it could have been remedied, perhaps placing a stock sound effect of a scream after cutting early.

Onto the next rip-off -I mean scene-. The misfits holding out in the prison.
Chris is still pointlessly imprisoned unfortunately, can't exactly cut that entire plot device though.
Lots of nice little cuts throughout this setting. With this cut - "Chris telling Alice they can't go back the way they went to the armoury." however, it's now even worse when Alice and Chris just spawn on the rooftop. Not much you can do about that though.
Always thought the rooftop escape was stupid, don't miss it.

Shower scene.
Looking down the hole, there is a foreground flash of something /again/. And Luther still says "Ladies" for no reason. He doesn't let the 'ladies' in first, so I guess he's just excusing himself?
Asian man still gets chopped in half too slowly for it be a shock.
Claire kills the axeman, good. Bunch of slow-mo is trimmed, thank god. footage that remains of Claire vs. axeman probably could have been sped back up to normal speed though, help tighten it a bit more and actually be action. Same can be said for most of the Tokyo axeman scenes later with Ada & Alice.

Wesker encounter on Arcadia is gone, words cannot describe the improvement. That scene is an abomination. Besides, the battle atop the ship is about to happen so there is no lack of action at this point.

The crossover between the two films is almost completely unnoticeable and I enjoy what's been done with the Arcadia battle. Having them arrive during the speech is a nice touch. Probably an easier transition to work with than going from Apocalypse to Extinction (Biohazard) though.
Perhaps the dumb looking close-up of Jill while falling could have been cut.

Suburbia sequence, while it's a complete rip-off of Dawn of the Dead, I felt was kinda cool to watch. Maybe it could have been an (eerily realistic) nightmare sequence during the movie crossover (after Alice falls in the water) or something, I don't know.

The part where Ada gives Alice her stuff doesn't make a lot of sense, she gives some stupid excuse as to why she'd want to give away all of her gadgets.
Can't tell if this was the re-added deleted scene or not, can't remember the original.

Alice going after Becky and the licker is a pretty boring and pointless side-adventure. Lickers kill people, they don't kidnap. Besides, those eggs are not at all convincing. If the Ada gadgets scene is cut, then no worries if you cut this whole thing, as Alice uses the grappling hook like a scene out of Batman and Robin.

The reorganising of the simulation scenes is great. I think it works well.

We don't learn that the Moscow zombies are las plagas, which means it might be a bit confusing as to why they're using machine guns, rocket launchers, motorbikes and chainsaws...

Car chase is much better.

The non-evil Michelle Rodriguez is still here, and still pointless as ever. Telling people how she doesn't like guns and then dying not long after. Doubt she's cut-able though.

The fights at the end in the snow are still a bit too drawn out and with a bit too much slow-motion still.
At one point Jill runs away from Alice so that she can get her spear and then runs right back into battle and it's kinda dumb.

The movie could have ended before everyone arrives at the white house, just too cheesy, and if you cut the injection subplot then nothing would be missed here except silly looking CG dragons and the lame-ass line up.

Little bit disappointed that there was no RE1 theme music again. ;)

Poor choice of credits music, I like Bjork, but this song didn't sound the best nor did it fit. The song by Garbage was okay.
Also, Hexes is a decent song and Chino Moreno is god. Do not ever cut Chino Moreno. Ever.

Background music throughout many action scenes, if it's possible to be replaced, would be a big improvement. Most of it is so dull it takes away from the suspense that the movie is attempting to portray.

FINAL WORDS

I liked the edit overall, but feel more could have been done with it, been more aggressive in some areas. Also, the source movies being the worst of the franchise (in my opinion) certainly didn't help.
Thank you and well done Aztek463! I don't think I'll be returning to the theatricals.

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Owner's reply September 28, 2014

Thank you for taking the time to review this! I appreciate the amount of detail you went into. Let me discuss a couple of the points you brought up:

- I loved the opening credits sequences to both Afterlife and Retribution. You're right, with the Afterlife credits removed the Tokyo sequence later in the film is pretty much just "random zombie action," and I knew that going into it. I wanted to excise the sequence, and I could have done it if Alice didn't show up with a gun in the next scene. I took continuity cutting over plotting and action sometimes, for better or for worse. And that would have driven me absolutely bonkers! As for the opening, if I had the skills to alter the opening credits accordingly, believe me, I would have.
- Those fades to black and white in several spots were things that I had to keep in. In the case of the plane crash, I had cut a long pan around of Alice and Wesker in the plane as it was crashing. It would have faded to white anyways, and I feel that the way it ended up coming out was the lesser of two evils.
- The whole losing/gaining powers subplot across both films was really pretty dumb. It's almost too simplistic a fix to solve it with one injection, and then grant back instantly with another. And you're right, Alice is perfectly capable without them. All of the first Resident Evil and for a good portion of the second (though she does claim they did something to her in the interim) she's essentially just a regular old schmoe. I have a feeling that this may have been more developed in the script or even in an earlier cut of the films, but was cut.
- Fixing the slow-motion in the Axe-man fight was (and is) a bit outside of my current skill base.
- Ada giving Alice her gear was in the original film. It is pretty silly, and I probably could have cut the dialogue around that. As for the licker sequence, I'm not sure how I could have cut that out (hey, they managed to rip off Alien here too!). Not to mention it also reveals the warehouse of clones and such which, I think, does cast a bit of a question as to whether or not Alice is an original or just a manufactured being. Food for thought. Maybe not all that filling, but something.
- I figured it better to just not mention Las Plagas at all since the name is dropped and we're kind of just expected to go with it. As for the machine guns and rocket launchers, I think it's simpler to assume it's a different experiment to create bioweapons by Umbrella/The Red Queen.
- As for the end battle, I'll admit, it was pure self-indulgence as to why I kept the cutting to a minimum. :P
- I was able to change the music a bit in my first Biohazard edit because the tracks were separated a bit better. Here, the music is in all of the tracks, and short of rebuilding the entire movie from scratch, there wasn't really anything I could do.

Thank you again for your review! I know my responses are a bit long-winded, but I don't want you (or anyone else) to think I'm doing a "this is why you're wrong" type of thing. I take all feedback into consideration for both future projects and revisitations of old ones, and believe me, I'll be looking to your review.

Cheers mate! :)

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Overall rating
 
9.4
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10.0
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9.0
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9.0
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9.0
have i ever been let down by a aztek fanedit, the anwser is NO.
the first ever fan edit i saw was silent hill and i was not disappointed.

i have always been a huge fan of the resident evil movies (they are my switch off my brain and enjoy the ride movie).

i remember walking out of the cinema after retribution a little upset with what wes had done, he tried to please critics by trying to make it smarter than it was and to me they put to meny subplots and stuff in to it.

but i loved this edit, i loved the first biohazard fanedit and i loved how this one was put together it was seamless in its editing (all aspects), i love how 4 joind with 5 and how aztek kept the perfect circle song the outsider and the credits music and how alot of the filler junk was ripped out.

i really loved this edit and will watch this a million times over.

i could not recommend this enough, anyone that enjoyed the resident evil films will love this even more.

a big thank you to aztek463 for this awesome fanedit.

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Overall rating
 
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This was a good edit. The story is focused on Alice much more and the story really moves along. The Audio/Video quality and editing quality are IMHO flawless. I couldn't tell where the edits were made and the story is pretty sound. The word "Biohazard" was seamlessly placed into the red queen's little speeches. Afterlife was transitioned to Retribution very well. The cheese was cut, although I think many of the red queen's lines in retribution were cheesy to begin with. Although the story does move along quite quickly, it is a little long and that's the only negative thing I have to say about it. Overall a very good edit and very high quality and professional.

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Owner's reply January 13, 2014

Thank you for your review! As far as the placement of the word "Biohazard" into the dialogue....I had nothing to do with that. I've been using the "Biohazard" moniker for these fan edits since the beginning. The word has only just started being used in the films. :P

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8.0
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8.0
The Resident Evil movies are pure guilty pleasures for me.
They are park your brain at the door and just enjoy the ride action packed adventures.
I mean, what's not to love? It's Milla Jovovich is tight fitting outfits killing zombies!!! Sounds perfect to me! LOL!

Needless to say, I am a fan of Aztek's BIOHAZARD fan edits.
They are edits that are made with passion and love, that really focus on the strengths of the RS movies and create a great rollercoaster ride for the audience. And this latest installment is no different.

Combining AFTERLIFE and RETRIBUTION into a single story works fairly well as there is enough narrative carry over from the first film into the second that it feels mostly natural. Though the actual bridging scene (attack on the Arcadia) comes across as extremely brief and sudden, but I think Aztek made the best of choices out of the situation since he was forced to cut around the opening credits. The movie did feel a tad long, but again I am not certain how much more or what could be cut without losing important plot or character moments.

The video quality looked great (I watched the MKV on my computer) and I did not notice any issues with audio. No jarring cuts or any technical issues that I could see. A very well produced fan edit project.

Solid good fun, and clever alternate viewing experience. Thumbs Up!

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