Resident Evil

So, I went on a marathon, four movies in two days. They really do get better after each one, but they don't find their path. Here's a help, an ought-to-be: Resident Evil can become the Bond-movie for the zombie-franchise, like the bond-movies themselves are for the spy/action department. At the end of one movie, just as Alice and her group made it to whatever is the symbol for safety (the surface, a ship, a town, etc.), a new wave of goons gets into formation. In the first few minutes of the next, that fight is fought and the situation dealt with, to go to the movie's main storyline, Alice roaming the zombiefied world and finding a new group of survivors, whom she helps in their various hideouts and fortresses and whatever else the zombie-fan fantasises about. And in the end, we find another umbrella facility with another umbrella operative to give us some umbrella backstory, some exposition, something for the science fiction fan such as myself to enjoy. Alice makes it to safety, new enemy wave, end of movie. One might think that this is as idiot-proof as James Bond ending one movie with one girl in his arms and beginning the next movie with another one. Within the first four parts a pattern like this is more-or-less established.
The fifth one, the new one, blows it; which is a shame because it starts by resolving the last movie's helicopter threat in two minutes. Alice loosing consciousness and waking up as if nothing happenes? Why not, we have to get her to the new plot somehow. From then on, it's a thousand small things, stolen from a thousand other things: mother-instincts from Metroid Other M, organic people pods on walls from Duke Nukem Forever, test chambers from Portal, flooding various landmarks from Roland Emmerich, breaking bones in x-ray vision from Tekken (or was it Street fighter?). Why even show this, we don't see the screen of a medical scanner, its just out of nowhere. We also see the camera images in the chambers, the first-person-perspective of the red queen, so to speak. All right so far, been done, but why show us the picture of the girl (red queen's avatar)? Who is she talking to? Another thing: why is the a.i. all of a sudden evil? I think they forgot what she was doing in the first movie. Yes, she said 'you're all going to die down here', but it was not a threat, merely a piece of information, a fact. The a.i. was programmed to keep the virus separate from uninfected humans, at all costs. She was protecting humanity in the first movie by sealing the facility off. And now, in part five, she wants to get rid of all humans all of a sudden? WTF!
Two ideas to make this interesting again: One, wait five years and make a prequel to the franchise, like everyone is doing these days. Two, make a couple swap: Let Len Wiseman direct the next Resident Evil movie, and in turn Paul Anderson can direct the next 90's science fiction movie remake starring Kate Beckinsale. That way, I don't have to sit in the cinema with the lingering thought that I am watching Paul Anderson's fifth installment of the 'my wife is so hot' franchise.