Resident Evil: The Final Chapter

[TigerClaw]

Check out the trailer for what appears to be the final sequel in the Resident Evil movie franchise.

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International Trailer

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[turtlefanforever]

Looks alright. Thought it'd get me more hyped. honestly i'd rather not have a trailer at all cause i already had myself hyped up about this and this trailer brought me down a bit.

Or just release the snippet of her riding into racoon city.

[Candy Kappa]

Hopefully it is the final RE movie from this series.

[TigerClaw]

Hopefully it is the final RE movie from this series.
Or it could be the final movie with Alice.

[Candy Kappa]

Or it could be the final movie with Alice.

Hopefully. Alice is the worst protagonist in the whole RE franchise.

But. Where can they go after Final Chapter, if not a new clean reboot slate. The RE movie universe is a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

[Andrew NDB]

The first one was ho-hum okay, but now the second one, "Apocalypse" I think, was probably ranks in the Top 5 Worst Movies of All Time list for me. Just god-awful in every way imaginable. Never bothered with any others.

[CyberCubed]

I seriously cannot believe this series somehow spawned like 6 movies. It really does not make any sense when you realize:

1) How off-brand it is

2) How the movies themselves aren't very good

3) How the hell is it still going after more than a decade? This was like one of those bad videogame adaption movies you expected to bomb and be forgotten about...not make 5 more movies.

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

I seriously cannot believe this series somehow spawned like 6 movies. It really does not make any sense when you realize:

1) How off-brand it is

2) How the movies themselves aren't very good

3) How the hell is it still going after more than a decade? This was like one of those bad videogame adaption movies you expected to bomb and be forgotten about...not make 5 more movies.

6 more movies, isn't it? Aren't they on #7 now?

How the hell is right.

[turtlefanforever]

I seriously cannot believe this series somehow spawned like 6 movies. It really does not make any sense when you realize:

1) How off-brand it is

2) How the movies themselves aren't very good

3) How the hell is it still going after more than a decade? This was like one of those bad videogame adaption movies you expected to bomb and be forgotten about...not make 5 more movies.

Resident evil wont end without at LEAST 7 movies that are around 150 minutes long :tcool:

[TigerClaw]

I seriously cannot believe this series somehow spawned like 6 movies. It really does not make any sense when you realize:

1) How off-brand it is

2) How the movies themselves aren't very good

3) How the hell is it still going after more than a decade? This was like one of those bad videogame adaption movies you expected to bomb and be forgotten about...not make 5 more movies.
I think its cause audiences love seeing a female protagonist kicking Zombie ass.

[Spike Spiegel]

I think its cause audiences love seeing a female protagonist kicking Zombie ass.

By that logic, maybe we will get 6 sequels to Ghostbusters 2016.

[Cure]

They're super cheap and make a killing internationally. That's why.

[drgon78]

I can't wait for this one though I really wish she got her psychic powers back.

I wish they would make a Lollipop Chainsaw movie.

[ProactiveMan]

The Final Chapter... that's funny. Friday the 13th 4 was 'The Final Chapter', then they made six more.

[TigerClaw]

Brand new trailer got released.

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[Andrew NDB]

I think its cause audiences love seeing a female protagonist kicking Zombie ass.

They don't even show any zombies. The horrible second one, every time they showed a zombie they would just do some weird slow-mo, shaky-cam thing, and then cut away.

[TigerClaw]

They don't even show any zombies. The horrible second one, every time they showed a zombie they would just do some weird slow-mo, shaky-cam thing, and then cut away.
Resident Evil is more then just about Zombies, they also battle mutant creatures.

[Turo602]

I'm much more interested in this movie next year.
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[Candy Kappa]

I'm much more interested in this movie next year.
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Wow... That looks more genuine Resident Evil then all the Live-Action movies combined.

Is that even possible by the laws of nature? :lol:

[TheBlueTurtle1]

I'm much more interested in this movie next year.
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Looks great, I HATE the live action films, just bloody awful.

Resident Evil Degeneration, was a actually a great movie, but the second was was Damnation was sh*t.

This new trailer reminds me of Degenerations, so fingers crossed it's good.

[Shark_Blade]

Live action is for eye candy. The CGI movies are better imo.

I still enjoy both of em. :D

[ssjup81]

I didn't realize that RE had even gotten up to movie 7. I was done with the series after movie 2. lol

[sdp]

Wow, I remember watching the first one when I was about to begin HS. I thought it looked stupid from the trailers but really liked it when I saw it. I was excited and hugely disappointed by the second. I remember liking the third even if it was very different and looked terrible from the trailers. I guess I'll watch all the movies one day but man how crazy did this movie franchise get and so many movies at least fans got something out of it I guess. It's like a franchise where all its direct to videos sequels were released on theaters.

[The Deadman]

Live action is for eye candy. The CGI movies are better imo.

I still enjoy both of em. :D

Says the guy who thinks PDTMNT is great lol

I'm pretty hyped for this one seeing as though I really didnt care for Retribution.

[drgon78]

I have really enjoyed the movies so far, though I am still mad they took her psychic powers away.

[Wesley]

The trailer looks good. The first and second films didn't interest me, but I liked the third and fifth ones in a "so bad, they're good" sort of way. Never saw the fourth one.

[Andrew NDB]

The "Resident Evil" movies. I swore I wouldn't, after watching part 2 many years ago (because it was so terrible, ghastly, and made my Top 5 Worst Movies of All Time list). But I figured hey, let's spend a sick weekend (last weekend) re-watching parts 1 and 2, and then seeing *all* of them to see just how far the rabbit hole of suck goes. First of all, while I'm aware the movies really have nothing to do with the games, I've only played Resident Evil 1 and 0, and they were too tough for me to crack.

Here goes:

1: Resident Evil (2002): I never minded this movie too much. I did see it when it came out. I remember the reports about George Romero attached to direct, then behind the scenes stuff happened... and Paul W.S. Anderson came aboard. It's not bad. There is legitimate zombie stuff, plus the Super Monsters of the games, too. Somewhat decent survival horror, even if Alice (Milla Jovovich) is clearly some kind of deus ex machina/kwisach haderach. It's serviceable.

2. Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004): I swore off the whole series when I saw this one ages ago. So terrible. A series of "how cooool can we make Milla look in every shot" (or Jill Valentine, for that matter... I still cringe at her intro at the Police station... it feels like an SNL or Key and Peele skit) with nothing in the way of scripting or making us care about or believe anything going on on the screen. With slow-mo. Oodles. Mike Epps was very annoying, which wasn't his fault (seems symptomatic of my problems with, say, "Bad Boys 2"... you know, very white Hollywood guys giving black comedian actors funny dialogue to read that plays flat). I thought maybe I was wrong in my memory, that every time you see a zombie in the movie, the camera just gets all blurry and slow-mo and you can't actually see any zombies. It's true. Watch the movie. I challenge you to find one un-blurried shot of a zombie in the movie. Now, I feel like maybe it was the editor masking some shoddy makeup or something, or maybe they didn't get the zombie extras to sign papers or something. I have no idea. But truthfully, I didn't mind the movie this much this go around. It's stupid fun, completely brainless, with an R rating they suspiciously didn't push. It also it the first time we see Iain Glen (Game of Thrones, before Game of Thrones) in the role of Dr. Isaacs.

3. Resident Evil: Extinction (2007): Seeing this one for the first time. Of particular interest to me, Russell Mulcahy directed it, who also directed the first two Highlander movies. Erm, I mean, he directed the first one. Actually not that bad! I think I like this one best of all the "Resident Evil" movies. Definitely a pseudo-zombie remake of "The Road Warrior"... until Alice becomes a Jedi and starts wiping out things with her mind. Weird. And ****. Little bit stuck on how Alice wandered from Raccoon City in the last movie all the way to Nevada... which just coincidentally happens to be right above Dr. Isaacs' huge underground Umbrella installation. Like, right there. Dumb. Still, I actually began to care about the characters unlike the last one. Mike Epps even was given an arc I cared about, and Ashanti didn't suck! Not terrible. Big confrontation with Dr. Isaacs that's cool, I guess. I also realized that the Albert Wesker in this is played by the guy who plays the current Director of SHIELD on Agents of SHIELD. He's recast in the next ones by a guy clearly given the direction of, "Act just like Agent Smith. Just do that." Unless that's how Wesker is in the games, I have no idea.

4. Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010): Oh god. Everything bad I've ever said bad about Resident Evil: Apocalypse? Times ten here. And soooo much slow-mo. I swear, if you sped every action sequence up in this movie to real time, it'd be a 50 minute movie. It's once again an exhausting study in just throwing action sequences out there making the leads look as coooool as possible. Something about a boat in Alaska that's just sitting there next to a building with survivors, yet it's a super secret Umbrella installation just waiting there to cryo-freeze people to... experiment on them? Kill them? Nothing is clear. Garbage.

5. Resident Evil: Retribution (2012): Even worse. Maybe. The s**t trophy goes to this one or the last. And a pretty clumsy "greatest hits" collection of scenes and characters from previous movies. By this point it's clones, clones, clones to explain everything and it just sort of runs with it. With a ton of more slow-mo. Excruciating to get through. I like that Paul W.S. Anderson literally steals his wraparound shot -- that everyone *hated* -- from AVP where the facehugger comes toward the camera in slow-mo and gets shot. He did that here exactly with Jill Valentine's chest crab at the end. Ends with Albert Wesker saving everyone, whisking them all away to Washington D.C. to do final battle with the undead. While a pretty transparent cribbing of Ripley's Newt in Aliens, I actually found a bit of heart in Alice getting a "daughter" from the clone she picks up in this. It humanized her for the first time in the whole series. When the little girl asked Alice, "Are you really my mommy?" and she said, "I am now," that was probably the most powerful moment in the whole series. Easily. And how quickly it's glossed over. Very embarrassing returns from all the old cast (actors and actresses who presumably wouldn't return in parts 3 or 4, but now many years later... don't have much going on) from previous movies as clones, clones, clones. Lamesauce.

6. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2017): And it will be the final chapter... pretty horrifying box office so far. So everything the last one set up? Poof, gone. She wakes up in the White House talking about "it was a trap, Albert Wesker tricked us to kill us"... without offering even a single clue as to how or why this was. Further confusing is that if this was true, why would he bother to save them in the last movie? Just let them die in that underground Russian bunker or whatever. Or blow up the chopper before she regained consciousness. And by the way, this series is a constant series of sequences where Alice is knocked out and awakens in some kind of dire or new and scary situation. Oh, and this movie might as well be titled, "Resident Evil: Remember Dr. Isaacs from Part 2 and 3? He's back because Game of Thrones is hot." None of his motives from the 2nd or 3rd movie make any sense here. Also weird is Isaacs' ability to bark orders at Albert Wesker, who was pretty clear about his outranking him in 2 and 3 (to Wesker, Isaacs was just some pesky, meddlesome science guy, and he let him know in every scene in 2 and 3). Now, Isaacs is top dog, the CEO apparently. I feel like when they "got" Iain Glen from Game of Thrones back, they sort of rewrote all of Wesker's stuff for him. Fairly clumsy continuity in trying to make Alice the Red Queen, and suddenly she doesn't remember her life before "the mansion." When she emerged from her amnesia in the first one she remembered fine. She was a career woman running security at the Hive, and was pretending to be married to dude to keep a lid on the Hive's entrance. Simple enough. And apparently now there are only 4000 humans alive on the Earth, and Alice has 4 hours to unleash the anti-T virus thing into the air to save them (the Red Queen even pops up at times to remind Alice, "You have X hours to unleash the anti-T virus serum or the last survivors will be killed!")... yet the ending makes it a point to point out that it could take years for it to disperse enough in the air to spread across the world. In fact, just a few miles from the dispersion zone, there Alice is fighting zombie bat things at the end. Huh? It hasn't even gone like a block or two from where you let it loose a day ago? More disappointing is the whole lack of continuity between this one and the last one with Alice's "daughter." That was a huge thing in the last movie, and nary a single mention of her here, or Alice so much as indicating any care or worry or remorse (if she's dead) at all. About the only thing this movie succeeds at is retroactively castrating any possible momentum (or sense) or impact the last slew had. Awful. Just awful. Though truthfully not as bad as 5, 4, or 2. In tone it sort of tries to be 3 again, harkening back to the "Road Warrior" vibe. Failing, of course. The Umbrella armored trucks were kind of cool, though obviously borrowed from the Dead Reckoning in George Romero's far superior "Land of the Dead." And what's this about the Red Queen is unable to kill Umbrella employees? The opening 10 minutes of the first film, she sure does a great job of murdering about 50 of them. And Alice herself was an Umbrella employee in the first movie... and the Red Queen sure was trying to kill her at every chance. Every RE movie makes it a point to blow the first 5 minutes recapping everything that's happened before... I think the filmmakers needed that a lot more than the poor bastards watching these things.

In summation, I think the best, most relevant comparison between these brain-dead movies might be the "Fast and the Furious" movies. Both are somewhat empty-headed, full of cooool moments, energized action and big set pieces. The difference, though, (I think) is that the Fast and the Furious movies have an admirably slavish dedication to continuity, heart, and a genuine attention to "family." Each movie feels like a new chapter, each development feels earned. People come into those movies and go, but it always feels organic. No such luck in the "Resident Evil" movies. Just s**t. Pure s**t. I think 4-6 purely exist to keep a certain marriage alive and try to keep a certain someone still relevant in Hollywood who hasn't been since over a decade ago.

[turtlefanforever]

Nothing to write home about. But it's by no means bad. Not much action. The last installment is so much better. Barely any action, but that's ok if a movie is story oriented, but there wasn't much substance to it. Everything worked out nicely. And it was fantastic as a wrap up.

i felt like i was watching the final episode of a tv series, not a major motion picture.

Showed none of the battle at the white house, which to be fair i was expecting cause they usually don't show that movie to movie but that was a cool set up. Alice starts out by herself, and for a while you think it'll be a solo mission but of course she finds a team. It was all fairly predictable but if you're a fan you'll enjoy watching it.

[Andrew NDB]

Nothing to write home about. But it's by no means bad. Not much action. The last installment is so much better. Barely any action, but that's ok if a movie is story oriented, but there wasn't much substance to it. Everything worked out nicely.

I don't see how.

Showed none of the battle at the white house, which to be fair i was expecting cause they usually don't show that movie to movie but that was a cool set up.

What do you mean they don't see that movie to movie? They've shown that in every movie to movie to date until this one. 2 ended with her and the team on the run... 3 began with her and her team on the run. 3 ended with her awakening her clones and declaring war on the Japanese Umbrella headquarters... 4 began with her taking her clones and doing just that. 4 ended with a massive helicopter attack about to begin on the Arcadia ship... 5 began with that attack.

Not so with 6. They clearly had an idea where they wanted to go with 6 and did a reverse-course and cobbled something lame up on the fly to get out of where they'd left the end of 5. Probably something to do with getting a 25 million dollar budget reduction from 5 to 6 (smart, since 6's numbers have it set to tank). No excuse for just completely ignoring her "daughter," though.

[CyberCubed]

The fact that they've made 6 of these movies since 2002 is mind blowing in itself. The first movie should have just been one of those one and done videogame movies that had maybe one crappy sequel, similar to the Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter movies in the 90's. But instead this somehow managed to get 5 more movies. They're nothing like the games at all either.

It's mind blowing.

[sdp]

I remember the first movie looking dumb from the tv spots as I constantly saw Milla Matrix-kicking a zombie dog and that wasn't Resident Evil to me but one weekend I ended up watching it anyway and while it missed some parts of the game it wasn't bad not to mention I really liked the ending and soundtrack. I ended up catching it one more time before it left theaters.

I was really excited for Apocalypse and I think I actually saw it for free with a coupon on the "special edition" dvd of the first movie that came out a week before but I'm not positive. I watched it and wow was I disappointed by how terrible it was. I bought it on DVD and tried to like it but it didn't work and gave up on the movies.

The third movie with the desert setting and Milla as the main character didn't interest, but I eventually found the movie for cheap and bought the DVD and was surprised by how much I enjoyed it since I expected it to suck. I re-watched it a year or so later and didn't like it so who knows what I'd think of since then.

I kind of fell off with what was happening with the franchise after that but as awful as 4-6 look I kind of want to watch them all and see this train wreck of a franchise maybe I can enjoy it as an alternative take of the RE characters, who knows. Fascinating how these terrible movies can get 6 movies in the past 15 years.

[Andrew NDB]

I remember the first movie looking dumb from the tv spots as I constantly saw Milla Matrix-kicking a zombie dog and that wasn't Resident Evil to me

God, and those damned dogs are in like EVERY movie. "Remember that time in the first movie when she fought the dogs? Here it is again!"

That and that tunnel with the lasers. That gets redone about 10 times in the series.

I was really excited for Apocalypse and I think I actually saw it for free with a coupon on the "special edition" dvd of the first movie that came out a week before but I'm not positive. I watched it and wow was I disappointed by how terrible it was. I bought it on DVD and tried to like it but it didn't work and gave up on the movies.

Exactly the same here.

The third movie with the desert setting and Milla as the main character didn't interest, but I eventually found the movie for cheap and bought the DVD and was surprised by how much I enjoyed it since I expected it to suck. I re-watched it a year or so later and didn't like it so who knows what I'd think of since then.

Not coincidentally, the only RE movie other than the horrible 2nd not directed by Paul Worthless Sh*t Anderson.

I kind of fell off with what was happening with the franchise after that but as awful as 4-6 look I kind of want to watch them all and see this train wreck of a franchise

That's the only reason I did it. And Ada Wong:

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And it's interesting to watch her performance. I think she was literally directed to watch Ada Wong in the games and act like the CGI Capcom character. Very robotic.

[Allio]

I think I binged like 3/4 movies in one setting, it was whenvever that what's her name found her clones.

[Coola Yagami]

I still never understood why they went the Alice route. It's like a Tomb Raider and this new Melissa girl does everything and Lara kinda sorta cameos, or a Street Fighter movie about... some guy named George, and if you don't blink, you just might see Cammy somewhere.

[CyberCubed]

I still never understood why they went the Alice route. It's like a Tomb Raider and this new Melissa girl does everything and Lara kinda sorta cameos, or a Street Fighter movie about... some guy named George, and if you don't blink, you just might see Cammy somewhere.

By the time the first movie came out in 2002, the games had 6 protagonists. They probably didn't want to do a movie based on Resident Evil 1's story, even though that's what they should have done and gone with Jill and Chris.

[Andrew NDB]

I still never understood why they went the Alice route. It's like a Tomb Raider and this new Melissa girl does everything and Lara kinda sorta cameos, or a Street Fighter movie about... some guy named George, and if you don't blink, you just might see Cammy somewhere.

True. If I was invested at all in the games this would probably irk me to no end. As is, it just irks me because it's unabashedly horrific filmmaking and storytelling, world-building, character arcing... you name it.

[Andrew NDB]

By the time the first movie came out in 2002, the games had 6 protagonists. They probably didn't want to do a movie based on Resident Evil 1's story, even though that's what they should have done and gone with Jill and Chris.

That's pretty much exactly what they were going to do during the George Romero version. It only changed when Paul Anderson came on board.

[Andrew NDB]

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