The biggest zombie release of the last few weeks has been the third chapter in the based-on-videogames-like-you-couldn’t-tell big budget movie series, starring Milla Jovovich, the used-to-actress so skinny she’s practically translucent.

Milla Jovovich is back in the third chapter of the hugely successful Resident Evil franchise! This action-packed horror film is set in the Nevada desert and filled with intense special effects and more zombie terror! Las Vegas means fun in the sun. Well, at least the sun is still there. Except for a few rusting landmarks, it looks pretty much like the rest of the desert - or the whole country, for that matter. The crowds are now flesh-eating zombies: the mass undead, the oozing, terrifying sludge of what remains. Here, the newly upgraded Alice, along with her crew (Oded Fehr, Mike Epps, Ali Larter, Ashanti) will make a final stand against evil - with one goal: to turn the undead dead again.

I gotta tell you: The Resident Evil movies irritate me like a soda cracker in my boxer briefs. But somebody must like ‘em; this installment made back its $45-million budget at the box office, and it’ll probably do gangbusters business on DVD.

And if you’re going to get the DVD, you might as well get the Special Edition, which includes a commentary by producer/writer Paul W.S. Anderson and producer Jeremy Bolt (director Russell Mulcahy is oddly absent), eleven deleted scenes, a making-of featurette, a sneak peak at the upcoming Resident Evil: Degeneration videogame, and what the heck — the full Devil May Cry 4 game.

$19.99 at Amazon.com.