Resident Evil fans it's finally been done with this review i've now watched and reviewed every single one of the live action Resident Evil films and my god is it good to be at the end. I honestly don't know what horror film i'll be tackling after this but I do know that the chances of my covering an entire franchise of films like this is very freaking slim and so for the last time join my as I review "Resident Evil: The Final Chapter" enjoy.
The plot of the movie is Alice has just 48 hours in order to destroy what's left of the Umbrella Cooperation and release a core for the T-virus before the last of the human race is wiped out. I will give this film for having some resemblance of a story which is something that the previous two films didn't have but with that being said the story is still pretty freaking bad and is at best very thinly drawn out which is something that i've come to expect from these films by now.
Returning for this film are one of the two reasons to watch the sequels and franchise star Milla Jovovich as Alice , the other reason to watch these sequels Ali Larter as Claire Redfield , Iain Glen as Dr. Alexander Isaacs and Shawn Roberts as Albert Wesker. Joining them are Eoin Macken as Doc , Fraser James as Razor , Former Batwoman star Ruby Rose as Abigail , William Levy as Christian and the daughter of Milla Jovovich and Paul W.S. Anderson Ever Gabo Anderson as The Red Queen and Young Alicia Marcus.
I don't really think that it needs saying at thus point but yeah the acting in this film is pretty freaking bad. Yes the actors who you expect great performances from do a solid job but even they can't turn in a great performance when they are given this bad script to work with and the same goes for all of the new actors as well who are just left struggling trying to make the script work which sadly is something that they fail to do.
This film does something that none of the other films apart from the first one have dared to do and that's give Alice a backstory. I honestly cannot believe that it's taken them this long to give the main character of the franchise a backstory and while there is a chance that it retcons what was said about her in the first movie it is still a very welcome edition and the fact that her backstory plays a huge part in the films thin story is just the cherry on top.
During a final film in a franchise you should get a feeling of this is really the end and that's something that this film doesn't do. Simply because all of the other sequels apart from the second film have had an ending that kind of ends the franchise and so to me this doesn't feel like it's the final film in the franchise but rather just another lame live action Resident Evil sequel which is something that should never be the case.
Unlike the last film which was so dull that I wouldn't blame anyone if they fell asleep during it this one at least tries to be entertaining. I say tries because even tho there are some entertaining moments in the film what stops it from being fully entertaining is the fact that like the previous film this one takes it self far to seriously and thus it can't be fully entertaining 'because of how serious the film takes itself and that doesn't make it fun to watch.
This film straight up makes Alice look dumb as hell because up until the previous film she's shown that she can be quite smart and well as we find out in this film the ending of the previous film was all one big trap. This right here makes Alice look dumb because she knows what Umbrella can do and what Wesker can do as such you'd think that she would at least be prepared for the fact that he's telling a lie which as in turns out she wasn't which si a dumb thing for her character since again she knows what Wesker is like.
What I found really hard to believe is that there's suddenly a cure for the virus which to me makes no sense because in the second film they were trying to contain it as such the cure would have been useful there and then but it wasn't relevant to the plot so there you go. Why they chose to hold of on this vital piece of information is truly beyond since there are quite a few times when the cure would have been useful in these films.
Another thing that really doesn't make sense in the grand scheme of things is the fact that The Red Queen is now suddenly a good guy. This doesn't make sense because there are films in this franchise where she's trying to kill Alice and whoever she's with at the time and so for her to suddenly turn out to be a good guy doesn't make the slightest bit of sense at all and it makes me wonder if the makers of these films even watched the films that they were making.
Now then boys and girls as you'll know if you followed this series of reviews these films stopped being horror films around Afterlife and became more of an action film. Sadly this trend continues with this film don't get me wrong there are some attempts to try and be scary but they don't work at all and as for the action it's actually pretty entertaining but again they do nothing new it's just Milla being bada*s which is something we've seen already.
Overall this was a pretty bad ending to the franchise but at least it ended and didn't drag on for several sequels. There are a ton of things wrong with this film and it is in my opinion the worst one in the whole franchise which is a shame because the early films showed such promise and so I don't know what happened to make these sequels pretty bad as such this film gets a 3 out of 10 from and as always we end this review with our true goddess Elvira wishing us all some very unpleasant dreams and thank you all for following me on this mini series.
As you all know by now the images for this review were gathered from either the official Resident Evil fandom wiki page or Google Images. I just want to say again thank you for following me with this series of reviews this is the first time that i've covered a seven film series and it's alot harder then it looks and so if you want to use high quality images please use any of these websites trust me you won't regrett it.
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