Resident Evil: The Final Chapter - Can it really be the end?

I really enjoyed the first 'Resident Evil' film.  I know it wasn't high art and it was based on a computer game featuring zombies taking over a town.  The second one wasn't bad either (my opinion only - everyone else seemed to hate it!).  However, every successive sequel after that seems to get more and more outlandish and less and less credible.  How many sequels have there been anyway?  This 'final' chapter must at least be the fifteenth.  Well... maybe.

The original had a security guard (Alice - Milla Jovovich) taking on the undead.  That was fine and then somewhere along the way she developed superpowers.  In fact, she possibly developed more superpowers on her own than every hero in the Marvel franchise.  Then, whenever she did die (or anyone died) they came back as a clone.

Here, Alice now does a deal with a computer to finally come up with a vaccination that will wipe out the zombie virus that has ravaged the world in the twenty or so movies in between (exaggeration).  I don't know whether I missed out a film or two between, but I didn't really remember much of what happened.  However, luckily the film seemed to predict my confusion and give me a thorough recap at the beginning.

So, Alice leads a rag-tag bunch of humans back into the original complex to find the vaccine and save the world.  For good this time.  Hopefully.  Along the way there are plenty of zombies and even more computer-generated monsters (and you'd think that the special effects would have improved over the decade or so this franchise has been running for - unfortunately every monster looks a little too smooth to really believe it's actually on screen terrorising our heroes).  There are also traps that pick off the good guys one by one and a bad guy so bad that he wears shades even when he's indoors.

Despite the film being for 'mature' audiences, I reckon that the optimum audience would be thirteen year old boys.  I'd have loved it back then.  It has everything a teenager would want.  Yeah, it's an okay enough film, but it doesn't offer a single thing that any of the other fifty 'Resident Evil' films have given us.  The only reason there is to watch this is because it's (apparently!) then end of the saga and you may want to know how it all ends.  Watch on streaming service rather than buying.

5/10 a hard trek, a bit like unicycling to Mordor and back