Resident Evil: The Final Chapter

That reminds me, I actually started to assemble an Umbrella Corp outfit based on the soldiers in the movie, got about 80% done and just flung it in the wardrobe for the last few years! Maybe time to finish it off now that the movie franchise is about to come to an end...

Man, I thought this was absolutely horrible, utter trash almost totally devoid of any redeeming features whatsoever, other than the fact that it somehow remains watchable for most of the duration.

The storyline is beyond absurd, the characters are almost non existant, the editing - I don't know what the hell they were thinking, but it's nearly impossible to see what's going on in action scenes with the sheer quantity of fast, rapid edits, the film looks horrible.

The more I think about it the angrier I get - the first two are good films and I have a lot of time for them, they started sliding with the third one and went off the rails completely with the fourth and fifth, but against all expectations this one managed to be twice as feeble as the previous outing, which actually looks like Citizen Kane in comparison.

The movie honestly sucks so bad, as much as I wanted to find good in it.

If I had to praise something it would be Ian Glen's performance - frankly he makes the film - some decent apocalyptic visuals and Mila....Mila still has it.

Overall though it's a total stinker and hands down the worst film in the franchise by a long shot. I would very generously award it a 2/10. Instantly forgettable garbage.

So I've been thinking about this more today and now that I've had more time to do just that, there are so many questions as to what the hell Paul WS Anderson was thinking when he penned and directed this.

Spoilers below!

I mean he wrote all of the movies, for god sake, so I can't understand the glaring plot holes and inconsistencies that plague The Final Chapter.

Why is there no mention of the significant characters of Leon, Chris, Ada, etc in this movie, despite the last movie ending on a cliffhanger with them all included? I mean Claire is in this movie, and even she doesn't mention her own brother at all! An entire cast disappears with barely a word of explanation offered.

What the hell was the entire point of the film 'Retribution' if Wesker allegedly betrayed them at Washington after the events of that movie, and why wasn't this explained at all in TFC other than some vague line about 'betrayal'? I mean the film has a bloody intro, couldn't they have fit it in there to offer a bit of cohesion and consistency in the story?

It's so disjointed and flows so poorly it feels like watching the final season of a TV show where you've inadvertently skipped an episode or two.

Why did they decide to ignore the storyline of previous movies? In Apocalypse Dr Ashford created to T-Virus to save his wheelchair bound daughter, who also served as the basis for the Red Queen. In this, we are not only given a totally different origin story for the T-Virus involving a different child, we're also told that the Red Queen is modeled on that new child. In fact, Umbrella Corp's entire story is radically altered in this movie.

Speaking of Red Queen, what the hell is up with her random behavior? Homicidal AI maniac in the 1st movie, flip flops between good and bad in others, and now in this one we're supposed to buy that she's a) good and b) unable to willingly harm any umbrella employees (despite willfully murdering how many in the 2002 movie?)

And Wesker - what the hell is the deal here? Aside from the point raised above re: Retribution, why is Wesker an almost immortal super-solider in that film capable of withstanding gunfire, bombs, etc - and in TFC he gets crushed by a door and he dies without really doing anything?

If Umbrella really decided to 'end the world' via deliberately releasing the T-Virus and restart the world (which, as well as being an outrageously bad story, also does not add up, at all, with events established in the first movies), why in the name of god would they fire a nuke directly at Raccoon City when The Hive, the new cradle of civilization as revealed in The Final Chapter, was right there?

I mean, the same bloody guy wrote all these movies, but they don't make any sense or add up at all. The Final Chapter is almost a re-boot, it's so radically dismissive of the storyline established in earlier films in the franchise to the point of flat out ignoring them at times just for the sake of convenience.

The movie is a bad joke and an insult, a new level of bad in a franchise which I genuinely thought had hit rock bottom with Retribution in 2012 and could only move onwards and upwards. If only I knew then what I know now.