Considering the reviews of all of the films that have preceded it, as well as the success of practically every other đoạn clip game adaptation in cinema history, it’s honestly shocking to think that the Resident Evil franchise has made it lớn its sixth installment this year with Resident Evil: The Final Chapter. Luckily, this one has been marketed & packaged as truly the final addition khổng lồ the Resident Evil films, & at this point, such an end could only be seen as some kind of mercy for a franchise that should have ended a long time ago.
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Resident Evil: The Final Chapter opens as Milla Jovovich’s Alice emerges from the sewers running underneath a barren và overrun Washington D.C., returning to the surface for the first time in years. Not much is known about why Alice comes back, other than that she is supposed to meet someone (or something) who has vital information lớn give her. This results in Alice journeying back lớn Raccoon City and the Hive in a last ditch effort lớn try & save humanity from being completely extinguished once & for all.That’s the basic premise of The Final Chapter, which is at times then twisted and stretched out to lớn ungodly degrees throughout, often to lớn make room for set pieces or half-hearted emotional beats that very rarely land with much more than a whimper. Maybe the most frustrating part of The Final Chapter, however, and basically the entirety of the Resident Evil franchise, is the legitimate promise it has lớn be a fun, stylistic action/horror franchise.As fans of the franchise are probably already aware too, a majority of that potential comes from Milla Jovovich, who’s proven time và time again that she can bring a certain màn chơi of charisma and life lớn her roles. Combining that with her willingness to lớn perform as many of her own stunts as possible, plus her efficiency at actually pulling them off, she has the potential lớn be a female kích hoạt star with legitimate star power và pull on screen. That is, if she wasn’t buried underneath some of the worst editing & CGI action scenes that contemporary cinema has ever seen.
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Unlike some of the other prominent action franchises in cinema today, lượt thích Fast & the Furious or John Wick, which have benefitted from strong filmmakers bringing new life to lớn each installment, the fact of the matter is that Paul W.S. Anderson doesn’t have the technical prowess or finesse khổng lồ give Resident Evil the kind of edgy, blood-pumping action that it so very clearly is capable of creating. Which is a shame considering how much love he seems to evidently have for the franchise và world of Resident Evil, even though none of that is able lớn be translated lớn the big screen in any coherent or appreciable way. Instead, it just ends up feeling like nothing more than a collage of ideas of characters or action scenes, rather than palpable versions of either.Along her journey, Alice predictably runs across a number of both familiar and new characters, including Ali Larter’s Claire Redfield and Iain Glen’s villainous Dr. Alexander Isaacs, the latter of whom seems khổng lồ have been devolved down into nothing more than just a bunch of heavy-handed religious và political metaphors. Similar to Jovovich, both Larter và Glen are capable actors in their own right, with the same cấp độ of enthusiasm for their stunts that Jovovich brings lớn hers. But where Claire & Alice’s pre-existing relationship could have given The Final Chapter a much-needed emotional throughline, it’s instead chopped up & rushed over in favor of nonsensical kích hoạt set pieces and way too many scenes of tedious plotting.Any chance the actors have of creating legitimate chemistry between the film’s characters, or bringing their own charisma to their roles is extinguished within moments of their introductions. Even Ruby Rose, who has such on screen energy and action prowess that she could have resurrected the whole film, is so underutilized & wasted that you’ll almost feel thankful the actress didn’t waste any more of her time & talent on a character who’s almost as thinly written as some of the prominent CGI monsters Alice fights throughout.For fans of the franchise, a few of The Final Chapter’s reveals & last-minute twists may địa chỉ interesting layers lớn the Resident Evil canon, but the film is so overstuffed và frantic that none of them are truly given the weight that they deserve or need lớn even matter. Not to lớn mention how quickly it seems Anderson is willing lớn contradict everything about the twists themselves. Some of the kích hoạt scenes are interestingly staged -- like one involving Jovovich’s Alice hanging upside down surrounded by a group of armed gunmen, or a fight between Alice & Isaacs on top of a moving vehicle, which if you can get past the film’s choppy, overenthusiastic editing -- may offer brief moments of excitement in an otherwise boring và predictable film.Like most of the previous Resident Evil films, The Final Chapter is a pointless mess from beginning to end, and acts as an unfortunate reminder of why January gets such a bad rap amongst moviegoers. The film breaks its own rules, và undercuts any chance it has at creating anything even remotely close to lớn feeling real. In the end, it’s not all that different from being bitten by a zombie; you hope khổng lồ God that it never happens, because of how painful it is lớn endure, but once it starts, you just want it to kết thúc as quickly as humanly possible.
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter is nothing more than a barrage of cliched character beats, unbearable CGI action, và headache-inducing editing.
