Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
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Picking up immediately after the events in Resident Evil: Retribution, Alice (Milla Jovovich) is the only survivor of what was meant to be humanity's final stand against the undead. Now, she must return to where the nightmare began - The Hive in Raccoon City, where the Umbrella Corporation is gathering its forces for a final strike against the only remaining survivors of the apocalypse.
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- Kevin JamesNovember 1, 2025Resident Evil: The Final Chapter brings the long, undead shuffle of the franchise to its explosive, leather-clad conclusion. Milla Jovovich once again embodies Alice — the stoic, unstoppable warrior who’s been fighting the Umbrella Corporation since the early 2000s. The movie itself is a relentless barrage of action: monsters, explosions, crumbling skyscrapers, and the occasional philosophical musing about humanity’s survival. It’s loud, chaotic, and visually overloaded — a fitting farewell to a series that’s always preferred style over subtlety. But let’s be honest: after six movies of grim survival, dark hallways, and gun-slinging superhumans, the franchise was missing one vital element — Paul Blart. Imagine it: if Kevin James’ mild-mannered mall cop had been introduced in the very first Resident Evil, this entire saga could have been something transcendent. Instead of another grim-faced soldier in black tactical gear, we’d have a Segway-riding, heart-of-gold hero who accidentally saves the world through sheer clumsiness and improbable courage. From Resident Evil (2002) onward, Paul Blart could have been the comic balance to Alice’s hardened warrior spirit — a man who still believes in rules, order, and maybe offering the zombies a coupon before shooting them. While Alice takes down hordes of undead with martial precision, Blart could roll in from behind, accidentally crashing into a Cerberus or knocking a licker unconscious with a fire extinguisher. His moral center, his everyman optimism, would’ve added the human warmth this cold apocalypse sorely lacks. By the time we reach The Final Chapter, Blart could’ve evolved too — from mall cop to wasteland sheriff, from Segway savior to the reluctant hero leading humanity’s last Costco colony. He’d still be funny, still out of his depth, but in that way that reminds us what these movies once promised: not just survival, but hope. As it stands, The Final Chapter is a frenetic but hollow end. The action is impressive, but without Paul Blart’s grounding presence, it’s all noise and no soul. The movie needed his baffled sincerity — his “I’m just doing my job” energy — to make the chaos feel like it mattered. So yes, Alice closed the book on the apocalypse. But somewhere, in a parallel universe, Paul Blart rides through Raccoon City on his trusty Segway, badge shining beneath the blood-red sky — the hero the T-virus never saw coming. And that would have been the true final chapter we deserved.
- Doc WormJuly 3, 2026A dull slog. There’s a cool set piece or two, kinda. Might win an award for most amount of jump cuts in a film. The score sags, the writing is uninspired, the acting seems phoned in. It almost seems like they just don’t care anymore and honestly, neither do I. Not that this film series has iron clad lore but it’s crazy how much from earlier entries they just retcon here. It’s not like it’s in service of something much greater, I think they were just trying to put a definite end to this franchise. Anderson shouldn’t have even bothered. This series doesn’t claim to be Shakespeare or anything and it definitely has merits in the good dumb fun department but the final chapter? Easily the worse chapter!
- RipLinesManApril 8, 2025Event Horizon (1997) masterfully orchestrated a symphony of interdimensional abomination and epistemological annihilation, whereas Resident Evil: The Final Chapter descends into an abyss of audiovisually histrionic delirium, characterized by syntactically mutilated exposition and chronologically fragmented hyperrealism. Dr. Weir’s metaphysical disintegration and Captain Miller’s existential gravitas stand in stark contradistinction to Alice’s peripatetic traversal through a kaleidoscopic dystopia of algorithmically choreographed bedlam—an unrelenting onslaught of diegetic incoherence and cinematographic convulsions masquerading as narrative resolution, culminating in a denouement so oppressively incoherent it verges on cinematic nihilism.
- GeorgeJune 27, 2026More of the same. II’ve seen this movie three times already because the last three Resident Evil movies are basically the same movie with different playgrounds. The plot of this series is all over the place, and Alice is still doing Alice things, somehow surviving the most unsurvivable situations. That said, the last 20 minutes were the best part. I’m okay with how they wrapped everything up. Not a great movie, but a decent enough ending to a very confused and messy series.
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Resident Evil: The Final Chapter was released on December 23, 2016.
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter was directed by Paul W. S. Anderson.
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter has a runtime of 1h 46m.
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter was produced by Jeremy Bolt, Paul W. S. Anderson, Robert Kulzer, Samuel Hadida.
Picking up immediately after the events in Resident Evil: Retribution, Alice (Milla Jovovich) is the only survivor of what was meant to be humanity's final stand against the undead. Now, she must return to where the nightmare began - The Hive in Raccoon City, where the Umbrella Corporation is gathering its forces for a final strike against the only remaining survivors of the apocalypse.
The key characters in Resident Evil: The Final Chapter are Alice / Alicia Marcus (Milla Jovovich), Dr. Isaacs (Iain Glen), Claire Redfield (Ali Larter).
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter is rated R.
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter is a Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller film.
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter has an audience rating of 4.7 out of 10.
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter had a budget of $40M.
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter has made $312.2M at the box office.