Review | Film review – Resident Evil: The Final Chapter will satisfy loyal fans but few others
Sixth film in franchise starring Milla Jovovich unspools rather like a video game, but frenzied editing renders much of the narrative incomprehensible
2.5/5 stars
Model-actress Milla Jovovich reprises her signature role for a sixth and supposedly final time in Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, once again battling the nefarious Umbrella Corporation amidst a global zombie apocalypse.
As writer of the five previous Resident Evil films and director of three of them, Paul W. S. Anderson, Jovovich’s husband, has steered the franchise to global box office takings of US$1 billion – an unlikely feat not only because video game adaptations seldom transition successfully to the big screen, but also because much of Anderson’s other work (Alien vs. Predator, The Three Musketeers, Pompeii) has been almost universally derided.
Following a lengthy prologue that helpfully recaps the previous five instalments, Alice (Jovovich) learns of an antivirus, capable of neutralising the T-virus that has wiped out most of humanity. With 48 hours to find and release the vaccine, she must return to the Hive in Racoon City, where her story began in 2002’s Resident Evil , facing off against numerous familiar faces along the way.
