By William Pattison, aka Eric Morse
For Horror Bob's Blog
Well, I went to see Resident Evil: The Final Chapter. I was
of two minds on this film. The fighting sequences were fantastic. The
production quality was good. Paul W S Anderson is a wonderful director. The big
problem I had was with the story. I enjoyed the plot, which was simply the
computer program The Red Queen informs Alice
that there is an air born cure for the T Virus and she has a short time to
return to Raccoon
City Alice is going over the T
Virus history. Suddenly she says that another guy created the T Virus other
than Doctor Ashford (from Resident Evil Apocalypse) and that it was HIS
daughter The Red Queen was based on. Also that they daughter had had a disease
that caused her to age rapidly and the T Virus was created as the cure. On top
of that they say that the creator of the virus was killed before the outbreak
and this executive adopts the daughter. From this point on all the continuity
that we’ve known from the previous five film is cluster-fucked for this new
continuity they created for this one film, like they did with the film
Highlander: The Source and Highlander: Endgame. Also they didn’t even show the
battle that was starting at the end of the last film. They just mention it in
passing.
So, I enjoyed the film but I felt betrayed by the fact that
they fucked up the entire established continuity just to make this film work
they way they wanted. A film can have great special FX and wonderful production
quality, but if the cheat on the story it fucks up the entire thing. It is a
flawed tapestry. If you are simply going to see this film for cool battle
scenes and zombie and monster action you will enjoy it. If you are a person who
wants a good solid story you will be sorely disappointed.
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