Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
(2016)Evil comes home...
The final instalment in the franchise based on Capcom's massive video game series. Picking up immediately after the events in Resident Evil: Retribution, Alice (Milla Jovovich) is the only survivor of what was meant to be humanity’s final stand against the undead. Now, she must return to where the nightmare began – The Hive in Raccoon City, where the Umbrella Corporation is gathering its forces for a final strike against the only remaining survivors of the apocalypse.
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Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson
Starring Milla Jovovich, Ruby Rose, Ali Larter, Iain Glen, Shawn Roberts, Eoin Macken, Joon-Gi Lee, William Levy
Written by Paul W.S. Anderson
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Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
BY Colttany superstar
Hubby and I have always liked this Movie Series - but this Final Chapter 30mins at the end was like "WHAT"?? It kinda didn't make sense on what all the other Movies brought with Series - it was like the writer / director has just given us a ending of another movie to end it all because the Actress didnt want to play the character anymore. Not Happy
BY JackWallace superstar
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The Press Reviews
Genuinely enjoyable popcorn entertainment that's dumber than a sack of monkey trousers but fun nonetheless. Full Review
This is, I think, the weakest picture in the franchise. Full Review
Part of the charm of these pulpy films lies in their lack of pretension, the way they rarely pause for breath. Full Review
There’s no denying the movie’s climactic gathering of females bent on saving the species. Full Review
The repetitiveness and occasional incoherence of the nonstop action leave the audience exhausted for all the wrong reasons. Full Review
The action is practically non-stop from beginning to end, but is never remotely exciting due to the Cuisinart-style editing that reduces it all to an incomprehensible, messy blur. Full Review
Pray it truly is the end. Full Review
BY Liam Maguren Flicks Writer
I won’t sugar-coat it: this is a bullshit action film. That isn’t the same as being a dumb action film. It’s that too, but dumb action films can be super fun, as John Wick and the latest Fast & Furious films prove. No, for a dumb action film, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter is not that fun, and that’s why I call it a bullshit action film.... More
The “plot” sees Alice (Milla Jovovich) in a post-apocalyptic world where she has only 48 hours to find a cure for the T-virus and save humanity from the undead. That’s it.
There are other characters, but they’re either henchmen with no personality or allies with no personality. The exception is Iain Glen (Game of Thrones’ Jorah) who returns to the role of Dr Issacs, channelling his inner Malcolm McDowell for maximum b-movie stiff-upper-lip villainy cheese. It’s kinda great.
However, the film usually fails where it counts – in the action. Director Paul WS Anderson displays every car chase, fistfight, and shootout with a visual spazziness that’ll often have you thinking “Wait, what just happened?” It’s like the cameraperson shot all these scenes one-handed while balancing on a unicycle during an earthquake, then edited it with a NutriBullet.
It’s only when Anderson calms the fuck down that the film gets good, turning into a confined horror where shots last longer than half a second. A scene involving a giant industrial fan is genuinely tense – if unoriginal – as is a Cube-like maze of death.
Jovovich also continues to look and sound like a badass, and to the film’s credit, it’s not afraid to mess her up in a Die Hard sort of way. She’s always been a great action star in a series that couldn’t keep up with her.Hide
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