Resident Evil The Final Chapter [Blu-ray]

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Fitting end for the Resident Evil movie franchise. I admit my interest in watching these movies has been decreasing after each installment that has been released. So I am very happy that before these movies ran our of a budget they were able to make one final installment to this movie franchise. The action was great in this movie and had several fitting call-backs/reference to all the movies that preceded it. This final chapter does fans right, but was still not as great as I wished it would be.

*Slight Spoilers Below Beware*

I was very disappointed that the franchise wasn’t able to get all the actors/characters back into this final movie, as many stories were either abruptly ended or left unanswered (kind of). I was sad that all the characters who were in the previous movie all ended up in the same place and all basically had the same anticlimactic fate that we find out about at the start. It seems like a disappointing move, but it is understandable considering this was the final installment. I’m not sure if it was a creative decision or if simply most of the actors declined to return. Either way, I still enjoyed this final chapter as I’m sure most fans did as well. I was just hoping it would end on a higher note. But definitely still a must watch for any fan!

-Justin

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After six films and 15 years the Resident Evil series closes out (with rumors of a reboot already starting). It was a fun ride. In this film Milla Jovovich’s Alice once more fights her way through armies of zombies, monsters and goons to save the few remaining human survivors. There’s a secret underground lab, a laser corridor, clones, revelations, retcons and director Paul Anderson steals a joke from Robocop. It’s a clever joke though so I don’t mind. If you’ve seen any of the previous films (or even the trailers) you know what to expect.

I was a bit disappointed with the opening. The last film left Alice and other survivors in a fortified White House surrounded by endless hordes of zombies. This film opens with Alice in the burnt out ruins of the White House, her friends presumably dead, and goes from there. I really would have liked to see the battle of the White House. Instead we get a battle in a ruined apartment block in Raccoon City which is not nearly as fulfilling.

The ending has some revelations and annoying retcons. Wesker the former Chairman of Umbrella is now a mere employee, Dr Isaacs is promoted from head of the science division to co-founder. We also learn the T-virus was created by a scientist to save his young daughter, but not the scientist who created the T-Virus to save his daughter in the 2nd film, a different scientist, with a different young daughter…

But with secrets, lies and clones these can be waved away. Heck, at this point there’s no guarantee that anyone, including Alice, is who they think they are.

I was also saddened to read that the filming was accident-plagued with one accident killing a crew member and another crippling a stunt woman. It tempered my enjoyment, I kind of prefer my horror without real world blood.

But overall, guns, zombies, Jovovich, explosions… Everything you might want to finish off this series.

– Kid Kyoto

As a fan of the series (and I use that word lightly) I quite enjoyed the first one, and just kinda wanted to see what happened etc so I kept up on the series. But this. The amount of cuts in every fight scene actually started to give me a headache. It’s as if they can’t have any actual fighting anymore and have to cut 100 times in 30 seconds. They have good actors that CAN fight, WHY Do you insist on making so many cuts. It doesn’t make the fights more dynamic it just makes it hard to follow and bad.
I had 0 actual fear this entire movie. The entire movie was jump scare to jump scare. I think I counted almost 7 in the first 20 min of the movie. Does horror understand that jump scares are really stupid, and getting incredibly old?
I’m glad I only paid 2 bucks to see this, because sadly it wasn’t even worth that.

– Lilena

DVD Wholesale Main Features:

Actors: Milla Jovovich, Ruby Rose, Ali Larter
Directors: Paul Anderson
Producers: Paul Anderson, Robert Kulzer, Jeremy Bolt, Samuel Hadida
Format: Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: English
Subtitles: French, Portuguese, Vietnamese, Malay, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Indonesian, Cantonese, Thai, Spanish, English
Dubbed: French, Portuguese, Thai, Spanish
Subtitles for the Hearing Impaired: English
Audio Description: English
Region: All Regions
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Number of discs: 1
Rated: R-Restricted
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
DVD Release Date: May 16, 2017
Digital Copy Expiration Date: December 31, 2019
Run Time: 106 minutes
ASIN: B01LTI22S4