Resident Evil: The Final Chapter

I enjoyed the apocalyptic exteriors, even the flying zombie-dragon and the pack of zombie-wolves. Just like I enjoyed the trailer. But watching those dusty and dark landscapes and later mostly gray interiors for more than 20 minutes is only for the very thick-skinned, and for fans who still go to the cinemas and make this the only successful movie series based on a computer game. What will Paul W.S. Anderson do now? (02/07/2017)

A lobotomy of taste and a stimulant of regret. The idiocy is driven to such absurdity that there is no point in being angry at the film. Attempts at iconic moments (the dragon) come to naught, and anything pretending to be plot tightens the corkscrew in your skull. Surprisingly, the expected unplugging does not take place, and not even the dumbest zombie believes that this is the "Final" one. Milla is over forty and Avon doesn't work forever. There will be a reboot in four years. (04/07/2017)

It draws you in with its fateful subtitle, but stumbles over its own feet already with the main character's initial wandering. There are so many fake jump scares (a can, a printer) that I don't even flinch anymore at the real ones hiding some cunning creature. When it tries to get more intense, the action remains desperately sterile, lacking atmosphere, and even promising moments end up sadly forgettable. However, the dozens of logical errors are the most tragic part, tearing apart an otherwise more than decent pace. It's not surprising that the unexpectedly successful attempt at a grand finale is brought down by silly twists, but in the end, thanks to Iain Glen's appealingly frantic performance, I'm almost okay with it. The expectations were, after all, in the negative. (03/26/2017)

It's stupid, but I didn't really expect anything else. I'd have preferred to have more fun, which didn't happen either. The Mad Max introduction was rather awkwardly in the B-movie style, and although it flashed slightly more horror-like at times with the arrival to the Hive (to which the closed environment of Resident Evil testifies), in the finale it was again only trash with an awfully cluttered edit of the action scenes. There's no point in thinking about the errors in logic (if I was the bad guy, I'd just leave that fan on and see what happens...), it's just a crappy video game that you can't even play, anyway. The final chapter? I wish. (02/01/2019)