The downward spiral continues

Rating: 4/10 (24 September 2018)

Four films in and the series is already losing steam and begins to retcon some of the events from the preceding films.
And now it is in 3D. And yes the 3D effects were garbage.
Alice returns again to fight against Umbrella. And along the way she reunites with Claire Redfield. And we are also introduced to Claire's brother Chris Redfield. Whom as fans of the games would know, he is the most famous character of the games. Sadly he doesn't do anything worthwhile in the film and is pretty pointless. Don't get attached to him, as after this film he is never heard from again. That's right. No one mentions him. Not even his sister Claire. You never find out what happens to him. Way to go Paul W.S. Anderson to have the most famous character of the games in the movie, and literally do NOTHING with him.
Highlights from the film are the beginning fight sequence with Alice and her clones against Wesker. But after that nothing more is done with her clones. The ending of Extinction teased Alice was gonna cause some hell with her clones against Umbrella. But in this film it all ends really briefly in the first few minutes. But the action scenes were rather ok.
Wesker to me in the film is the standout character. Having been only seen a couple of times in the third movie, he makes his presence more known in this one.
The other highlight is during the end credits where we see a familiar character make her return. Which sets up for the sequel.
Other then that, to me this is the second worst film of the series. None of the other characters are memorable in the slightest and the action scenes are mostly done to utilise the 3D effects. And like I said above it looked garbage. The special effects and creature designs were well done however.
But this movie still falls flat and is disappointing