Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Final installment of what should have been the best video film game adaptation, but what instead became merely a blandly entertaining series. This final installment see's Alice return to Raccoon City for a final showdown with the Umbrella Corporation, which is embodied in Iain Glen, who's a quite good sneering villain. Milla Jovovich is back as Alice, as is Ali Larter as Claire Redfield, but this long-in-the-tooth franchise is so bogged down in it's underwhelming mythology that it saps any fun from what should have been a straightforward George A. Romero style zombie film (there exists a Romero script for the first film when he was originally attached to direct and it's quite a good script). Writer/Director Paul W.S. Anderson delivers pretty much non-stop action that's reasonably well directed, but nothing that really stands out. The story isn't all that interesting and the characters are non-existant. I did enjoy the opening sequences of the film, which were much more Mad Max than zombie apocalypse, but the film quickly get's bogged down under it's own weight in trying to tie up the loose ends of the prior films. On the plus side, Jovovich is still good in the lead, and she's joined by Ruby Rose in a supporting role, which is very cool, even if it's in too short of an appearance, but despite a solid cast, decent production values, and nonstop action, this film somehow manages to be really boring. Ho hum.

I've long had a strange relationship with the Resident Evil movies. The game series has been among my favorites since I first fired up the original on my Playstation over 20 years ago. Despite the movies never really following the games (save for Apocalypse and some characters/monsters throughout the various movies) I always thought they were ok as dumb zombie action movies. But they were clearly out of steam by the time Retribution rolled around and the time was right to end things. Unfortunately, that end is this incomprehensible mess of a movie.The Plot Issues Oh where do I even start with this? I understand it being difficult to tie together 5 previous movies with numerous characters and plot twists but they clearly didn't care to make things even approaching coherent. For example, they immediately retcon and/or recycle several elements from previous films for no real reason aside from convenience. Remember where we left off the end of Retribution? With Alice being reinfected with the T-Virus by Wesker and seemingly teaming up with Umbrella for humanity's last stand in Washington DC? That's literally wiped away here in the first five minutes. Wesker apparently "pretended" to give her the virus before betraying her off screen prior to the start of this. So instead of a last stand in Washington DC we're given a race against time back to Raccoon City because apparently there's an airborne cure which will kill all the zombies and save the human race. Never mind that we've known there's a cure since the original and it's been used in several movies. Suddenly it's the deus ex machine for literally the entire series. But even lazier and most groan inducing is the final twist. Remember Apocalypse (part 2) when we learn the T-Virus was developed by a doctor to help his young daughter walk again, with the girl joining our protagonists? This is actually a nice allusion to the game series as Resident Evil 2's main villain was a mutated doctor who had worked on the virus and had his young daughter as a character helped by the protagonists. So of course they bring it back here... with Alice. Yes, the virus was developed by a father for his ailing daughter, who turns out to be the original Alice. No, not the Alice we've been following for six movies, as we find out *plot twist* she's a clone and has been the entire time. The film series has obviously done a lot with clones in the previous movies but this is such a lame move right at the end of the final movie just for the sake of a supposed big twist. I could continue on about more plot issues but there's no point: this movie is a mess and the good guys win. All you need to know.I'm Sorry, Who Are You? One nice touch is bringing back several characters for this movie, namely Claire Redfield. But any other character is just there to die. On this front, can someone explain to me why Ruby Rose is such a big thing in Hollywood right now? I don't get it as I have yet to see anything in any of her movies in the way of charisma or on screen magnetism. Granted, her part here was minor at best and could have been played by a million other nameless actors to similar effect. But that is the issue with most characters aside from Alice: we don't care. Even Wesker has nothing much to do in this movie as he plays second fiddle in his little screen time.Can You Focus For A Second? One frustrating aspect of this movie is the shaky camera work and editing. Segments of this movie feature such rapid fire cutting that it can make it difficult to decipher what is happening in certain action scenes. This isn't an uncommon occurrence in modern action movies but it wasn't present in the previous movies and it needs to stop. Film your action in a way that doesn't confuse the audience and stop having a cut every 1.5 seconds. Even if your movie is garbage at least it won't leave your audience trying to figure out what the hell just happened.Glad It's Over The Resident Evil film series is better off finished. They always favored more action over horror and while this made some sense when the original came out in 2002, it's course has been run. Despite starting up several years before the recent zombie craze, they quickly faced into the background as loud, dumb, and generic action flicks that managed to not do the series justice (similar to the Transformers movies). The Resident Evil games have their roots in B-movie horror and could easily be rebooted in this vein a few years down the road. As such, it was time for this series to end. As far as this movie goes, it's only really necessary if you want something approaching closure to the film series. Otherwise, this is an easy skip. 2/10

You'd be forgiven for being surprised that the "Resident Evil" series has made it through six movies. Ever since the original's debut in 2002, the series has been pumping out zombie horror and breakneck action on a fairly regular schedule, turning a tidy, if unspectacular, profit while doing so. Though, apart from the seemingly endless journey of venerable heroine Milla Jovovich, there's been little development of story across installments. One is much like another, as is the bleak and familiar ground they cover, and that's quite good enough. So, it's actually refreshing to see series progenitor, director and writer Paul W.S. Anderson, seek to bring it to a conclusion.Disregarding a sizable share of previous plot lines, Anderson introduces a detailed backstory that transitions to the blank slate the previous installment left things at. Jovovich is back, and the stakes couldn't be higher. The few remaining humans on the T-virus-ravaged Earth will die in 48 hours, unless Jovovich can make it back to Raccoon City, where the menace began, and release an airborne anti-virus.It's a simple, effective plot, and sets the stage for a rapid pace that does the film credit. Characterization and dialogue have never been strong suits for the series, so it's agreeable that the focus is almost fully on the action. And, you have to admit, it's fun to watch, if not anything particularly original. Before she even reaches the remains of Raccoon City, Jovovich dispatches a flying beastie (looking like something from a Dio album cover) with a claymore mine and, in a scene reminiscent of "Mad Max", escapes from a rolling Umbrella Corporation fortress on a pilfered motorbike. That leads in to a series of escalating confrontations that confirm Anderson as a skilled director of action, though far too quick with his cuts, as well as a voracious appropriator of popular cinema. Beyond "Mad Max", there are references to touchstones as diverse as "Pirates of the Caribbean", Guy Ritchie's "Sherlock Holmes" films, and (in a particularly amusing moment) "RoboCop".Jovovich acquits herself well, per usual, as the scrappy heroine, dispensing killshots and one-liners with aplomb. She also gets an opportunity to stretch her character out, in a way the series has not previously allowed. Providing support is Ali Larter, an on-again, off-again presence in the series whose impact here is negligible. She's given little interesting to say or do, besides watch Jovovich's back. Her role could have been filled just as easily by Ruby Rose, who appears in a smaller part as another survivor joining the assault on Umbrella's base beneath Raccoon City.And that base is something to see; it's probably the best of the series' numerous callbacks to Resident Evil's video game house of horrors roots. Chock full of nasty contraptions, esoteric security measures, and horrifying revelations, it's a fantastic playground for any action flick, let alone a film with the minimal ambitions on display here. Better still, it's overseen by the series' best villain, Iain Glen, who has returned following his apparent death in the third installment (which is explained away succinctly). With his gravelly voice and imperious bearing, Glen can lace even the most preposterous dialogue with crawling menace. He well overshadows fellow baddie Shawn Roberts, relegating him to the status of a walking mannequin modeling leather wear from the Keanu Reeves line. The same can often be said of the film's other supporting characters, who mainly serve their limited purposes delivering trite dialogue before bowing out with appropriately gruesome deaths. There's little deviation from the Resident Evil formula established previously, but that formula is executed very effectively here. And while this film's blatant disregard for previous attempts at building a greater continuity will likely turn off longtime fans, or just those who have a thing for continuity, it's perversely admirable that Anderson finds himself so willing to just charge ahead with what works (admittedly, he hasn't got a lot to choose from on that score). All in all, the series is wrapped up with a presentable enough finish in an undemanding hour-and-a-half. If Anderson could rein in those quick cuts (and maybe refrain from writing), he could be on to something.

For Resident Evil Game Fans and CGI Movie watcher. This Movie is a Punch into Face! First of all.. At the Beginning of the Movie.. the Story was already not anymore Game and CGI Movie Canon. But they settled it, to get it even worse. With the last Movie they got it possible to get some Fans from the NOn Real Charackter Version into the Movie. But direct at the beginning with by side text.. its simple easy.. for the " One Woman Does it all " Version, the true Protagonists of the Resident Evil Things are not needed anymore! Since beginning it was " all about Alice ". That way.. the others can be simple " off speach killed " . Then going on... what a Surprise.. the Red Queen turns around 180 Degree at Alice.. who she wanted to get killed. now to keep her alife at all cost? More Idiotic it cant be... Then the part " the only Extisting Anti Virus..." .. Curios.. in Movie 1 the Anti Virus was already shown... . In movie 2 Alice was filled up with Virus and Anti Virus more then dozen times. Too in Movie 2. A Girl from a Basic School had the anti Virus too in her school bag... Then.. later.. what happen with Alices over Human Skills? She had strong Telekinetic skills. could even burn up a chip in a Sattelite.. All gone?Its simple a Movie.. Forget all other Movies and watch only this one... or it Distroyes itself in everything, except the Action part. Sorry, its simple, that with each of this movies, its not really a go on story.. its much more the part... " we kill the whole story including pre movies , and make a new one , how it bests fits for the actuall movie. " .For resident Evil Fans, who know more then only this style of movie... its a Desaster.