Sunday 18 June 2017

DVD: Resident Evil - The Final Chapter (dir: Paul W.S. Anderson, 2017)



"You're fast, but you're not too smart."

Fifteen years after the unexpectedly solid first film comes the sixth and allegedly concluding chapter of this movie iteration of the Resident Evil franchise (with a reboot already in the planning).  Milla Jovovich again gives her all as the extremely unfortunate multi-cloned saviour-of-humanity action hero Alice, and the film itself is the usual mix of the good, the bad and the utterly predictable.  The inevitable final showdown return to The Hive in Racoon City affords the return of some fan favourites (human and non-human) as well as providing a couple of reasonable new twists courtesy of some deft early retro-fitting.  The Final Chapter is a middle-ranker as far as the overall franchise is concerned, but as always there are some insanely ambitious visuals, some lively action sequences and a real effort made to give this franchise a fitting send-off.

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