As someone who has seen each of these films once and didn’t exactly commit every detail to memory, this sixth offering is surprisingly user-friendly. We open with a prologue that serves to jog the memory and set the stage for this film’s specific plot points. Alas a stand-alone movie, it stumbles more than it stands.įirst, the film picks up three weeks after the events of Resident Evil: Retribution, which means that promised “Alice and friends versus all the zombies in Washington DC” melee occurs entirely off-screen with little discussion beyond “It went badly, and only Alice remains.” That is a bit of a letdown right there, and it may well be a point of consternation for fans. Longtime fans will get their money’s worth regarding finality, and the series certainly ends with more honor than the Saw franchise. This sixth Resident Evil doesn’t have the “every step has led to this moment” finality until close to the end, but it ends well and offers a note of completion should the book indeed remain closed.
After all, Friday the 13 th, Saw and Shrek all had “the final chapter” episodes that turned out (or will soon turn out) to not be the last chapter. I don’t know if this is truly the last installment of the 15-year old Resident Evil franchise. werewolves action-ers, so we’ll see how this plays out. The Resident Evil franchise has been a bigger deal worldwide than the “not based on anything” vampire vs. Sony’s other female-led sci-fi horror-ish franchise Underworld somewhat underwhelmed earlier this month with a sub-$30m running cume, but it too made up for it overseas with a $75m-and-counting cume on a $35m budget. This one cost just $40m, lower than the last two $65m-budgeted installments. So we shouldn’t panic too much if the Constantin Film, Davis Films and Impact Pictures production opens below $20 million. The last two Resident Evil films, which took advantage of the whole “3D bump” factor, earned over/under 80% of their global takes outside of North America. 3 and opens in Russia and China on the weekend of Feb. It opens in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong on Feb. It will open in North America and a huge chunk of the world over the weekend. Of note, Sony release opened in Japan in late December where it has already earned $35 million, bringing the series lifetime total to $951m.
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