Here’s a breakdown of Resident Evil: The Final Chapter’s story, which contains some major twists. Resident Evil wasn’t the first survival horror game but it helped popularise the genre during the 1990s. This game started life as a remake of Capcom’s own Sweet Home before evolving into something else, and by the time 1998’s Resident Evil 2 came around, it was clear the developer had a full-blown franchise on their hands. This has led to numerous sequels, spinoffs, comics and much more over the years.

There were rumblings of a potential movie shortly after the success of the first Resident Evil game, but it took a few years to arrive. George A. Romero was famously hired to write and direct a movie version, which was rumored to featured Jason Patric and Samantha Mathis as Chris and Jill. Romero was later fired by producers and replaced by Paul W.S. Anderson, whose subsequent film was originally designed as a prequel to the first game. He cast Milla Jovovich as an original character named Alice and the movie’s success would spawn an impressive five sequels.

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The Resident Evil movies are the most successful video game adaptations of all time, though fans of the games tend to dislike how they ignore the source material in favor of outlandish action. The films were never big on plot or character development to start with, with the series ending with the fates of several main characters – like Chris Redfield or Ada Wong – left completely up in the air. That said, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter did a surprisingly good job wrapping things up and revealing a couple of surprise twists.

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Resident Evil: The Final Chapter opens in the aftermath of the previous movie, which saw Alice, Wesker and the other survivors banding together in Washington to make mankind’s final stand. The Final Chapter reveals it was all a trap set by Wesker, and everyone else was (seemingly) killed. The Red Queen A.I. – who Alice first encountered in the original movie – appears and tells Alice she has 48 hours to make it to the last human outpost before its destroyed, and she must also travel back to Umbrella’s The Hive lab and recover an airborne anti-virus that could save the world.

After many gunfights and bike chases, Alice makes it to The Hive, where the Red Queen reveals the apocalypse was all by design. Dr. Isaacs (Iain Glen, Game Of Thrones) planned to wipe out humanity and start again – a plan that’s almost complete as only 4,000 human beings remain. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter also reveals the T-virus was created by doctor James Marcus, who was trying to save his daughter Alicia from a disease that causes rapid aging; James was betrayed by Isaacs, who killed him and stole the research for himself.

Resident Evil: The Final Chapter saves the big twists for last, as Alice fights through traps and monsters to recover the anti-virus. It turns out Umbrella’s elite are also frozen in The Hive waiting for the world to be “cleansed,” with the aged Alicia also being thawed out. Isaacs reveals Alice herself is a clone of Alicia – played by Jovovich in old-age make-up – and the reason Alice “lost” her memory is because she didn’t have a life before the events of Resident Evil; the Red Queen is also a likeness of young Alicia. Ashamed of her part in the world’s destruction, Alicia helps Alice and Claire Redfield defeat Wesker and Isaacs – who is ironically killed by his own clone – and they destroy The Hive.

Resident Evil: The Final Chapter ends with Alice releasing the anti-virus into the atmosphere, and gaining Alicia’s childhood memories through an upload. Since it will take a while for the anti-virus to spread worldwide, Alice vows to keep fighting until every last monster is gone.

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It’s pronounced Paw-rick, not Pad-raig. Now that’s out of the way, a brief introduction. Padraig has been writing about film online since 2012, when a friend asked if he’d like to contribute the occasional review or feature to their site.

A part-time hobby soon blossomed into a career when he discovered he really loved writing about movies, TV and video games – he even (arguably) had a little bit of talent for it. He has written words for Den of Geek, Collider, The Irish Times and Screen Rant over the years, and can discuss anything from the MCU – where Hawkeye is clearly the best character – to the most obscure cult b-movie gem, and his hot takes often require heat resistant gloves to handle.

He’s super modern too, so his favorite movies include Jaws, Die Hard, The Thing, Ghostbusters and Batman. He can be found as i_Padds on Twitter making bad puns.

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