Isaacs’ various goons, his reason for being in the film to engage with Jovovich in a brutal martial arts battle royale where the two of them will punch, kick, hack and slash one another into potential oblivion.Īnderson has always been one of the more up and down B-grade filmmakers in recent memory. The only other performer of note is South Korean superstar Lee Joon Gi portraying one of Dr. This group of fighters includes the likes Eoin Macken, Ruby Rose, Fraser James and William Levy, all of whom are only around to be the requisite cannon fodder for the hordes of undead creatures and the various traps laid out by The Red Queen for them to hopefully stumble into and be torn apart by. He’s back, too, of course, but Anderson wisely keeps him on the sidelines for the majority of the story, his comeuppance for being such an evil bastard as forgettable as any of his actual actions have been in any of the other chapters.Īs for the rest of the cast, the only other familiar face is Ali Larter, back as the heroic Claire Redfield, her character teaming up with Alice one more time and this time having her own army of survivors to lend assistance as the attempt to infiltrate The Hive. The veteran character actor brings a level of menacing gravitas to the proceedings that’s been missing the last two films, the black leather-clad Wesker ( Shawn Roberts) a one-note, emotionally flat non-entity who has never been threatening and seldom came across as a convincing threat.
Isaacs, the character’s last appearance back in 2007’s third film Resident Evil: Extinction. He’s also somehow managed to convince Ian Glen to return as the villainous Dr. While the story is rather straightforward and juvenile, he’s actually given Alice a bit more complexity this time around, allowing Jovovich more to do than just kick some zombie butt and shoot random monsters in the head. Anderson, who has personally helmed four of the six films in the series, put a lot more time in energy into this installment than he has since the first film 15 years prior. As such, it’s apparent that writer/director/producer Paul W.S.
Picking up immediate where the events of 2012’s Resident Evil: Retribution came to an end, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter proclaims right there in the title that it will be the last story in this long-running franchise.
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