Resident Evil : Chapitre final

On Resident Evil Retribution at the end it seemed that Milla is going in for a full war. Then the movie comes out and it has got nothing to do with the ending? Don't get me wrong. Resident Evil The Final Chapter was excellent for me. Just strange that it is not following up on Retribution. They set us up for one hell of a fight with some characters included then the story following does not have those characters or the story line? AM I MISSING SOMETHING?

As a hardcore fan of the RE games, I liked this franchise as much as everybody hated it. And I fully understand why. This one in particular was such a let down. This was the last film on the franchise and it would've been less of a disaster if it weren't for the worst editing and directing I could've imagined. There were so many camera cuts that I actually got nauseous. Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter and Iain Glen's performance saved this movie. I've always loved their acting here.

This is just some Paul Anderson cash grab, crap fest abomination that carries Resident Evil title, features some zombies, loud music, gun shots, explosions and one of the worst directing and editing I've ever seen. Every scene in this movie, right from the start, is shot with shaky camera and fast cuts.I don't know who thought that this approach would make The Final chapter a better movie, because it made it the worst, and hopefully the last under the supervision of Paul Anderson. There was only one scene, one moment, where the glory of the real Resident Evil showed some signs of life, but that scene was butchered with amazingly awful editing that made my eyes hurt. What the hell happened to you Paul? It seems the glory of Event Horizon will remain the peak of his career. Now lets just hope they let Resident Evil rest for some time before they reboot it with proper people behind the camera, people who understand what RE is all about.

So it's back to start and where it began, I'm not sure there was ever a cunning grand plan, for conjuring clones at behest, at their fancy, resurrecting, rebooting, digitised necromancy.

Raccoon City is where it's all at, it's where it all was and where it was begot, so down to The Hive is where everyone heads, trailed by thousands of diseased undead.

Cue more prequels, sequels and unequals.

You are probably not going to see this film for riveting story-lines and in depth character studies. The RE series has about action and fun sequences. Leaving aside all the ridiculous plot points and lazy screen writing, the editing of this movie is going to become legendary for it's awfulness.

I've never seen a full budgeted movie get hacked up so poorly that the expensive action scenes are pretty much butchered to the max. This movie needs to be studied in film school for how NOT to edit a movie. Every single action is shot with countless shakes, moves, and camera switches. A simple action of, say, putting away your knife, takes 3- 4 camera edits. I was counting them by 15 minutes in per shot. It was insane. A fight sequence will be nothing but a countless series of quick edits form close up, medium and far away shots mashed together so it's impossible to follow what's going on. Shaky cam is one thing, but this is shaky cam plus strobe effect editing. Every single punch or shot requires 4-6 edits and quick cuts. It will give you a headache to figure out what's happening in any fight or sequence. Even mundane actions like people standing on top of a building looking down takes 5-6 edits and quick cuts?

Bring the puke bag.

I guess they tried to film some neat locations and the costumes are pretty and sets, but you wont even notice with the multiple edits jarring your eyes.