ARMOURED VEHICLE IN THE MOVIE RESIDENT EVIL FINAL CHAPTER SERIES
There’s copious retconning in The Final Chapter, but it mostly benefits the overall picture and perhaps the series generally. Killing” – and to prove she’s vulnerable, even gets some fingers chopped off.īut this was never going to end like Logan, not with Anderson’s missus in the lead. She’s given to the occasional bout of ennui – “ Sometimes I feel like this has been my whole life. Alice has her super strength back but still has trouble with Lee Joon-gi (ie there’s again little discernible difference either way in her fortitude).
He’s inspired enough to engineer a series of reasonably impressive set pieces, from Alice killing some bikers upside down, to being dragged behind an armoured vehicle pursued by zombie hordes, to an encounter with a rather big and nasty turbine, another with some trapdoors, and also some ugly new mutant creatures too boot. While I’m not a fan of such aesthetic choices most of the time – and in some hands, such as those of Marc Forster, I downright deplore them – Anderson must nevertheless have been doing something right this time, as The Final Chapter is better paced and the action more commanding than the more overtly choreographed Afterlife or Retribution. I have no idea how this one fared as a 3-D experience, but since it’s pretty damn dark, pretty damn shaky and pretty evidently not designed for that extra dimension the way its two predecessors were (it was post-converted), I’d guess not so well. For some unknown reason, he decides to break out the handheld for The Final Chapter, going for shakycam broke more than a decade after it was becoming the back-breaking bugbear of many a discerning moviegoers’ enjoyment.
One of Anderson’s virtues – and they aren’t abundant I also have to caveat that his movies aren’t hugely memorable, so I may be mistaken in the following assertion – is that his action is generally pretty clear, well blocked and comprehensible.
The most curious decision here, however, is a stylistic one. Which means Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, while it’s the longest in the sextet by some margin, rarely feels like it’s idling. It helps too that Paul WS Anderson is genuinely attempting to pull out all the stops in terms of plot twists and set pieces. Unlike most of the characters in the run, he imbues Dr Isaacs with considerable personality, which can only serve to lift the proceedings, particularly in this concluding part. (SPOILERS) I’m not sure I’d go as far as to call Iain Glen the saving grace of a billion-dollar-grossing movie franchise, but I suspect it’s no coincidence that the best two entries in the Resident Evil series feature him prominently.
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