Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
This is not the final chapter, feels like yet another chapter told badly for devilish reasons. It retroactively makes the last film worse, the whole President Wesker subplot is abandoned offscreen.
Again, direct sequel to the previous film. The White House is attacked and lies in ruins, and this was before the Trump presidency. This happened offscreen and there is no explanation on why they are writing themselves out of bombing the Oval Office.
For contrived coincidences (just like the last time), the villain will help the hero. Again. This time, the Red Queen cannot violate the Three Laws of Corporate Robotics, so cannot harm a Umbrella employee. The original bad guy is back too, one of his clones at least.
Alice needs to get her ass to the Hive, and gets captured by the bad guy, and suffers soliloquies directed at her. A mere speed bump, she runs off and finds another group of surviving humans (how?! They were nuked in the first film!).
They defeat the badguy’s army of millions of zombies with millions of gallons of Guzzolene. But the bad guys have more armies where that came from. In that case, they run off to the Hive.
Exhausting action scenes ensue, but they are informed one of them is a traitor. After splitting up and them dying one by one (except the traitor), you are left with Alice, Claire and some dude. Figure that out, Sherlock.
In the Hive HQ, Alice also discovers she is clone, the real deal is the little girl which is the basis for the Red Queen. It’s clones all the way down. After more fight scenes, it all gets back to the lasers from the fist film. Evil loses against good, the aerosol antivirus kills all zombies and T-Virus infection.
Even though our hero is infected with T-superpowers, the aerosol magically does not kill her, and maybe her powers are still available. She rides into the sunset of potential sequels, the bane of all franchise heroes.
This is my place for ramblings about sequences of images that exploit the human visual limitation know as persistence of vision.