You can’t just say “that one was a clone, this is the real one” and expect me to forget that the two characters having a big fight in a laser grid hallway hadn’t already happened. I’m supposed to feel like Alice fighting Isaacs is the big climax we’ve been waiting for, but the whole time I’m thinking “I saw her get her revenge on Isaacs three films ago”. Isaacs is back, as I mentioned in the Good (but it’s not good!), revealing that the Isaacs that appeared in the second and third film was a clone… then this second Isaacs is also revealed to be a clone before the real Isaacs appears at the end, and the whole time Wesker (Shawn Roberts) has just turned into a lackey. The main and most obvious bad for this film is how badly it handles the main antagonist. “You thought my character had closure? Well, you’re right, but I’m back anyway!” These were the only real good points, but that puts this film in better shape than Retribution at least! Speaking of which a follow up scene of Alice, the returning Claire Redfield (Ali Larter), and a bunch of survivors defend a ruined skyscraper from the Umbrella-led horde was good too, using a bunch of traps and weapons like catapults to fight them off. Isaacs (Iain Glen) and it was all Umbrella again, but more on that down below! It was still full of some good visuals.
Sadly it turned out to be the returning Dr.
The middle of the film sees Alice (Milla Jovovich) get captured by a rogue group of people in silly Mad Max-style large armoured cars that have a horde of the undead following behind them, including our “hero” being put outside and forced to run for her life on the end of a rope. “Maybe we should get back behind cover…” “Nah.” But the Red Queen knows that Alice is coming, and the final battle will determine if the rest of mankind lives or dies. Sadly, while there were some good ideas and set pieces, a lot of this film falls apart thanks to dropping a bunch of ideas and characters in favour of bringing back an already defeated foe as a final enemy, robbing any drama from the final showdown… Hooray! Let’s take a last look at a Resident Evil live action film then, shall we? (For now anyway…)Īlice, a former Umbrella employee turned rogue warrior, joins her friends on a last-chance mission to storm the company’s headquarters located deep underneath what used to be Raccoon City. Well here we are, the *ahem* day after Halloween and we’ve reached the end of the Resident Evil Game to Live Action Film marathon… marathon, with the self-titled “Final Chapter”.