There are a few things of merit in The Final Chapter, such as the excellent stunt work and fight choreography that allows Anderson to film his real-life wife kicking all sorts of prosthetic monsters’ ass. Yet, this half-hearted retread of the series’ greatest hits might be the most narratively misbegotten of the whole bunch. Anderson had five years to come up with a story. This is a stale, paint-by-numbers B-action affair that, if you stop to turn on your brain for half-a-second, becomes mildly offensive due to the fact that Paul W.S. To be clear, the legions of walking corpses are not the only things rotten within Resident Evil: The Final Chapter. In that vein, Ali Larter’s Claire Redfield is also the only returning sidekick/actual character from the video games in the film, presumably due to the organic storytelling reason that her agent and the studio agreed on a quote. The point is there will be stunts, zombies, and nostalgic nods. There are some talks of instant cures and clones, and even more returning and redundant corporate baddies, but ultimately no one onscreen cares any more than the viewer.
Oh, and apparently there are only 4,000 people left alive in the whole world, and if Alice doesn’t rush back to the Hive to beat an arbitrarily ticking clock, they’re all going to die. She’s continuing her decades of chilling in the first Resident Evil movie’s Hive complex, which is located beneath the nuked Raccoon City.
Luckily, Alice is soon given a cheerful exposition dump by the Red Queen (Eve Anderson), the malevolent artificial intelligence who still prefers to look like a prepubescent Hogwarts student. In the film’s context, however, Alice awakens there back to square one with Wesker having apparently betrayed her (off-screen) by taking away her super-powers again (also off-screen). Washington is once more a ghost town with all its monuments to power so ravaged and abused that it just might be a prophecy for what the capital will look like in six months’ time.
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However, it’s hard to see because the film is otherwise relentlessly boring.īut as the real story begins in Washington D.C., the tantalizing war between the living and dead, which united a newly super-powered Alice plus her usual nemesis Albert Wesker (Shawn Roberts) in the last movie, has now been aborted. If taken in the right humor, there is almost something charming about Resident Evil: The Final Chapter and its utter refusal to offer anything fresh or even incidentally clever. Fifteen years on, Alice is still wire-fu fighting the same leather clad baddies in the same laser-hallway while talking to the same ghost girl in the machine. For like the virulent strand responsible for turning this film’s world into a George Romero wasteland, these Resident Evil flicks have remained defiantly and hopelessly monotonous. Okay, so maybe things don’t always change that much, but this goes double for Milla Jovovich’s Alice and her supposed final high-kick against the undead hordes in this weekend’s pseudo-epic. When its predecessor last infected audiences with its serialized tale of zombies and the equally lifeless ciphers they consume, fan culture was reeling from a recast and rebooted Spider-Man, and the fact that genre-darling The Walking Dead had just endured a creative dry spell. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter has been a long time coming.
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