I’m convinced that despite Paul Anderson writing all of these movies, he’s never actually seen any of them and he can only VAGUELY remember the plot of the previous film every time he has to write a new one.
He's also doing it while wasted out of his mind. But yeah with that extra added I compeltely agree with that headcannon. That's what I'm telling my kids.
I think it's more likely that his wife walks into his studio when he's writing and just says 'You know what would be REALLY COOL', and he's like eh, $$$$$
It was hijacked by him and his wife. They didn't care about the lore or the original material. All they cared about was themselves when making these movies. I hate them.
Yes, portraying your wife as a invincible super human without any annoying weaknesses, different costumes that would be ho hum in anime, and a total disregard to plot will make you wealthy!
Let's be honest. At this point, Wes Anderson is just vying for the King of the Simps award and wants everyone else to see his wife as a beautiful, unassailable, super human goddess. We all know hes just making these movies to keep his nose firmly up her ass and for the easy money they both make off them without having to put in ANY actual effort. He's never cared about resident evil as an IP or its lore, it's always been about him and his wife's ego and the money. The dude is a consummate ass-hat and deserves all the dumps that everyone takes on him and all these shitty films. He's literally been in charge of all these movies and cares so little for their own continuity and lore that even his retcons have retcons. The absolute worst part about all this is they aren't even so bad they are good, they are just so bad that they keep getting worse and the Resident Evil IP in film had SO MUCH promise to be something great but it got hijacked by a hack director and his wife for vanity and money. SMDH😔
Wesker, the most iconic villain of the series and one of its biggest badasses, gets taken out by a door from a old lady who did nothing but watch the world burn.
Funny fact Wesker from the movies survived a Purge bomb, really a kind of a fucking nuclear bomb in the 4th movie Just to die like this in 6 why Don't he died in 4 anyway 😂
When they said the antivirus is under Raccoon City, I kept thinking "You mean the Raccoon City that got nuked? Nuked specifically to destroy the city and the hive underneath?".
This movie has to be the worst case of retconning I’ve ever seen. It retcons not just EVERYTHING about the last film, but the whole series in general. And it is so nonsensical: -Dr. Isaacs suddenly being the actual big bad when Wesker was CLEARLY his boss the last time we saw him. You know that that was only done because Ian Glein got big on Game of Thrones post-Extinction. -Red Queen being good now when she was clearly evil in the last film. -Wesker “pretending” to team with Alice and help her in the last film, which makes zero sense. -Angela Ashford was clearly the model for the Red Queen, now she’s not. Nor is she even mentioned. -Leon, Jill, and Ada Wong being just gone with zero explanation. And where is Chris Redfield as well? -Etc. Paul W.S. Anderson clearly just DGAF with this one.
Let's be honest. At this point, Wes Anderson is just vying for the King of the Simps award and wants everyone else to see his wife as a beautiful, unassailable, super human goddess. We all know hes just making these movies to keep his nose firmly up her ass and for the easy money they both make off them without having to put in ANY actual effort. He's never cared about resident evil as an IP or its lore, it's always been about him and his wife's ego and the money. The dude is a consummate ass-hat and deserves all the dumps that everyone takes on him and all these shitty films. He's literally been in charge of all these movies and cares so little for their own continuity and lore that even his retcons have retcons. The absolute worst part about all this is they aren't even so bad they are good, they are just so bad that they keep getting worse and the Resident Evil IP in film had SO MUCH promise to be something great but it got hijacked by a hack director and his wife for vanity and money. SMDH😔
Let's be honest. At this point, Wes Anderson is just vying for the King of the Simps award and wants everyone else to see his wife as a beautiful, unassailable, super human goddess. We all know hes just making these movies to keep his nose firmly up her ass and for the easy money they both make off them without having to put in ANY actual effort. He's never cared about resident evil as an IP or its lore, it's always been about him and his wife's ego and the money. The dude is a consummate ass-hat and deserves all the dumps that everyone takes on him and all these shitty films. He's literally been in charge of all these movies and cares so little for their own continuity and lore that even his retcons have retcons. The absolute worst part about all this is they aren't even so bad they are good, they are just so bad that they keep getting worse and the Resident Evil IP in film had SO MUCH promise to be something great but it got hijacked by a hack director and his wife for vanity and money. SMDH😔
In an alternate reality, the Resident Evil movies not only keep well within continuity, put their focus on an ensemble cast of well-rounded characters, and never feel like they've overstayed their welcome, but also pay homage to the original source material without appearing to randomly pander with meaningless fan service. Unfortunately, it's also the reality where everything tastes like stale candy corn. EVERYTHING.
@@brianbabin6333 I agree on every count. I will add that the movies never pretended to be an adaptation, they always said they were doing their own thing, in their own continuity, with their own characters. It was RE fans that were unreasonable by insisting that the series failed at something it never set out to do in the first place and never advertised itself as doing. And yeah, I too love the movies but really dislike the 6th.
This movie feels like it comes from another dimension's continuity. Holy shit, wasnt the Red Queen trying to kill everyone in the last movie? Why did Wesker save Alice if he wanted her dead??? Why would Wesker pretend to give her powers back if only HE would know? lol, so much wrong ffs.
bro whats fucking halarious to me is Wesker being killed by a fucking door when in the last movie he was basically Neo and survived a explosion mere meters from this face
They just ignore most of what they set up minus a small moment, like Alice is controlled by Sam Issacs in 3 for 5 minutes, and nothing else comes. And they did the clone thing in 4 mostly to show off the 3D stuff, they could have spent a full movie on it but wiped it away.
This thing also happens with the Friday the 13th movies but there it's at least understandable because each movie is written by different person, this series doesn't have that excuse it's the same guy wrote all 6 and directed 4 of these
@@adamcade604 Plus aside from the first and second there usually isn't any carry over characters or plots, besides Jason himself and the fact that he kills folk.
@@GriffinPilgrimdude, in part 2 they don't even bother to explain not only how Jason came back and how he went from a deformed dead corpses in the ending of the original to become this diformed killer living in the woods
This series is a perfect example on how to derail a train. Not only do they not follow the original story, but from one film to another, the storyline changes. The before the last « chapter » hinted to an interested sequel which ended up in an irritating gimmick.
Let's be honest. At this point, Wes Anderson is just vying for the King of the Simps award and wants everyone else to see his wife as a beautiful, unassailable, super human goddess. We all know hes just making these movies to keep his nose firmly up her ass and for the easy money they both make off them without having to put in ANY actual effort. He's never cared about resident evil as an IP or its lore, it's always been about him and his wife's ego and the money. The dude is a consummate ass-hat and deserves all the dumps that everyone takes on him and all these shitty films. He's literally been in charge of all these movies and cares so little for their own continuity and lore that even his retcons have retcons. The absolute worst part about all this is they aren't even so bad they are good, they are just so bad that they keep getting worse and the Resident Evil IP in film had SO MUCH promise to be something great but it got hijacked by a hack director and his wife for vanity and money. SMDH😔
I never understood the whole timer thing. How did they know exactly when the last human would be bit and turn? "When need to add some tension, add an obscure timer!"
And since it was so close to zero when the cure was released. What does that mean? Is there single settlement that nearly had zombies break in? Are there like only 4 people left? Ending the zombie outbreak so close to everyone dying can't be a good thing.
@@somethingclever4297 They must have somehow calculated the wind speeds and how long it would take for the airborne antivirus to travel around the world, too.
It was supposed to be Umbrella knew the locations of the last enclaves of humans and had set the zombies etc on them. Umbrella knew how long it would take to overrun the enclaves. Of course dropping the antivirus in Racoon City would make no difference to the chances of survival for the last humans unless the antidote travelled at light speed. So yep, everyone's dead, the film couldn't even keep to its own logic.
I did get tired of all the sequel bait being retconed, and every time they have some kind of hope or group of survivors, they're always wiped out by the sequel. Like why care about any character besides Alice?
i never figured out too, the moment the antivirus is set free, all zombies collapse. ok i get it, the antivirus is not only a cure, it "kills" the virus inside the zombies and return them to "normal" dead corpses ok... but a airborne virus, get inside the body by inhaling it trough breathing... but i thought zombies dont breath anymore ^^
@@Ryodraco by removing seed distributors and pollenators thus causing certain plants to die off altering the levels of erosion and evaporation as the carbon dioxide levels rise contributing to a greehouse effect for global warming would be one way
The Jovavich powers transcend the need for a movie franchise with this many sequels to make any sense narratively in any way whatsoever. Great video, my dude!
Paul Anderson created Alice. Mila played Alice, Paul and Mila ended up getting married and having children. They're still married till this day. Paul literally married the women who played his OC. This man is a legend in my book!
Wait, Wesker's injection didn't give Alice her powers back? THAT WAS A JOKE! My immediate response to that scene was to ask "what is that supposed to do?" and now it's an actual plot point that it did nothing?
They did still have the cure in the second movie. Angela had it with her and Alice used it on Carlos after he was bitten. It was after that that they completely forgot about it.
"And leaves nothing behind but the fresh scent of Brut" I spit milk all over the place after hearing this😂😅. I haven't heard ANYONE mention Brut since I was like 10 and my old man was obsessed with it.
Not used to seeing "old man" to refer to someone's father, reading that, 10 years old, and peeking the PFP I started hearing banjos in my head for a second.
Yeah, I watched it in the theatre and yes, it was terrible. My compadre mentioned that it should have been dubbed The Final insult. I have a cheap box set and this disc hasn’t even left its tray once (except during shipping, when it decided to yeet itself in shame). Keep up the great work and have a great day.
I do “love” how the story only makes sense if you’ve never seen any of the previous films, but yet the writers also put in specific references that you would only get if you’d watched the previous films. Those previous films at least had some fun visuals and decent action unlike this film which has some of the worst edited fight scenes I think I’ve ever seen
Why doesn't Wesker just release the detonator immediately after being handed it. I mean if I was in that situation I would. I'm not letting my enemies walk out of there while I have to stay and die.
Man what a ride! I'm glad you reviewed these movies. I guess if the traitor was an employee of umbrella, that person would've by passed the traps, especially if set traps were connected to the red queen. But that's just 1 of many ways these movies could've been fixed.
That and Mortal Kombat, which is still the best live action vg adaptation if you ask me. Even a terrible director can possibly have a few actual good films in their filmography.
Wonderful summer, thank you very much, Decker ! As an aside, if this movie had been the first entry in the saga (after all it's pretty much self contained) imagine the backlash !
Decker, I was waiting on you to review the fourth kind. Creepy, suspenseful, alien phenomenon... You can't have a summer of Mila Jovovich without the fourth kind!
The confusing thing for me has not been what has changed with the backstory, but why they felt the need to change it. The backstory on who created the virus and for why would still have worked here if they had left it. It seems a lot of effort to change this just so could (if this is why they did it) eat up some screen time and/or use younger actors etc.
When I was younger I was always wondering why these movies never built on each other and just did their own thing each time. I thought they had different directors maybe but apparently the director paul anderson just wings it each time I guess
Weirdly, it's said that the reason Anderson did every RE movie is because he didn't do the second Mortal Kombat movie and didn't like what they did with it. But now I'm just wondering... would he even have done any different?
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:32 🧟 *The Final Chapter diverges from sequel bait and presents a new, unrelated storyline in the Resident Evil series, set in a post-apocalyptic world with loose ends to tie up.* 02:01 🔄 *Retconning reveals that Dr. Marcus, not Dr. Ashford, created the T virus for his daughter Alicia, leading to a breakthrough medical miracle cure with unintended consequences.* 03:57 💣 *The movie unveils a significant retcon, shifting responsibility for the viral outbreak's cover-up from Umbrella to the American government, complicating the narrative of the previous films.* 04:27 🤯 *Albert Wesker's betrayal of Alice is exposed, injecting her with a placebo instead of enhancing her powers, creating a complex dynamic that adds layers to the plot.* 06:22 🚑 *The Red Queen contacts Alice, revealing the existence of an antivirus beneath Raccoon City, setting the stage for a mission to save the remaining population and stop the T virus.* 08:49 🔪 *Dr. Isaacs, driven by a nihilistic view of the world due to climate change, plans to wipe out humanity selectively, preserving resources for the elite. The T virus becomes a tool for mass extinction.* 14:07 🤖 *The Red Queen's programming conflict between serving Umbrella and valuing human life adds complexity to her character, making her dependent on Alice to navigate ethical boundaries.* 16:31 🔄 *The revelation of a traitor among the survivors introduces a suspenseful element, leading to a speculation about the identity of the betrayer as the group faces challenges within the Hive.* 19:44 💥 *The decision to destroy Umbrella's cryostasis facility, containing potential survivors, raises ethical questions and adds a moral dilemma to the climax of the movie.* 20:44 🔄 *Doc's betrayal is unveiled, adding a twist to the plot, as he collaborates with Dr. Isaacs against Alice, showcasing the complexity of allegiances among the characters.* 21:41 🧬 *Alice is revealed to be a clone of Alicia Marcus, played by Milla Jovovich, with no memory before the mansion, explaining the unexplained scar on her shoulder.* 22:38 💼 *Alicia Marcus, owning half of Umbrella, secretly opposes the corporation and sends a video to the Red Queen, complicating the power dynamics.* 23:12 🕵️ *Alice exposes Doc as a traitor, neutralizes him, and manipulates Wesker, forcing him to hold the detonator to prevent Umbrella's executives from being blown up.* 24:39 ⚔️ *Alice confronts Isaacs, leading to a showdown in a laser hallway; she tricks him into holding a bomb, causing an explosion that seemingly ends Isaacs and Umbrella.* 26:17 💉 *Despite appearances, Alice survives the explosion, and Umbrella reveals they orchestrated the events to test her willingness to sacrifice herself for humanity.* 27:17 🔄 *The airborne antivirus is released, but the movie ends with sequel bait, hinting at a TV series that ultimately takes a different direction.* 28:19 🎬 *The final chapter is criticized for retconning, unfocused action, and quick-cut editing; it's seen as lacking a compelling story and being hit-or-miss with its action sequences.* 29:44 📉 *Overall, "Resident Evil: The Final Chapter" is considered by the reviewer as having no reason to exist, providing a subpar conclusion to the series with a rating of two barrels of surplus gasoline out of five.* Made with HARPA AI
So from what I understand of it, the Red Queen could kill those in the Hive because they were already written off. Meanwhile she was hard coded to protect the actual Elites... Also Dr Isaacs was upgraded with some kind of cybernetics or something. I am pretty sure that Alice was given that test to see if she was worthy of helping humanity rise back up as its saviour...
Also the viable humans were the ones in on the plan, it wasn't that they were rich. It was they were morally dubious assholes that would attempt to take over any civilization that was rebuilt, would back stab them in a second, and essentially being the last viable humans were the whole point for them going into stasis in the first place. It would be like saying: Okay these guys are responsible for the extinction of our race, but we can keep our race alive by giving them exactly what they wanted... Let them be the force that rebuilds out world, quietly scheme to wipe out those who weren't in stasis with them, and basically write history forever more as the "winners" where they frame the whole thing as divine punishment and that they were chosen to lead what remained of the "pure" humans who "God" had chosen to survive.
I legit remember thinking that the old Mila from this movie is the same girl from the second movie. I gave this movie a lot morecredit, like cool it all came full circle, only now realizing that's not what happened
This one is an abomination on every level. Even though, this franchise was never anything special and at best mediocre, the previous 5 films despite their issues were pleasent to watch and worked as guilty pleasures. This movie is the exception to that because it has horrendous editing, garbage cinematography, lighting, sound design and it's just an unpleasant experience, looks so dark & dirty, no fun to be found and typically bad CGI. And don't get me started on the continuity errors that are inexcusable with having the same writer in every film and they are so obvious that even someone like Jeremy jahns, who has stated that he has seen each movie once in the theatres, could still figure out the plot holes.
This movie was really disappointing tbh, Retribution was a fun movie but it had its flaws then The Final Chapter comes out and shits all over the previous one. Only watched this one once and forgot about most of it except for how disappointing it was and how they handled the characters. Good review btw.
This is quite the final movie. In a six movie franchise, they had no problems BSing a reason to not even bother paying attention and probably saving you time in the process minus the first three movies 😂
Tacking religious zealotry onto Isaacs felt to me like a quarter-assed attempted at tying in Sadler from RE 4 with this movie's villain. But eh, fuggettit. The last RezEve movie before this one was so genuinely upsetting to me that I refused to watch this so-called final chapter, until a few friends got together for a rare activity. - A postmortem dissection of this clearly doomed sequel (with booze and pizza, like all the best autopsies). And almost immediately from its clusterfuck of an opening recap, we knew it was going to be messy. No question about it, "RE:TFC" was D.O.A. and its flogged, battered, half-jumpstarted corpse is just riddled with questionable decisions from head to foot. We seriously shared in your exact sentiment that night as the credits rolled and we all declared in unison, *Thank freaking God!* No I am not the least bit curious to see how any future movies would have tied Alice in with an undying Texas Chainsaw family of weirdos, or a giant vampire lady heading up a troupe of inept circus freaks! No I never had any wish to see what a proposed crossover with "Underworld" would have looked like! Let it remain dead and buried here, Hollywood. And let us move on.
The first was good. It showed a side story. After that a total crap show for the rest they butchered the nemesis monster and the "tyrant" they TRIED to do.....UGH. this was the WORST of the batch. Great video as always Mr. Shado❤
The story got jumbled so much over the years in these movies . I can’t even take having Issacs as the boss behind this all serious . The trifecta of bitches with the original Alicia Marcus , OG clone and red queen the hero in the end . I get that this is the series that kept her semi relevant over the last 20 + years , but jeez it’s a little much with her role .
giving enough time i most likely could figure out how to tied all the films together with the right edit. I mean i could change the line of the red queen to say she can kill any of the umbrella board member or elite. I would also change the location of the airborne cure cause you the original location was overun already with t zombie. Why you want to work in a base full of them?
So im likely not the only one to notice this but it does seem like mila plays a near carbon copy of an anime hero version of herself with plot armor in all her films. Right?
RE and ultraviolet have good excuses (alongside ultraviolet getting fucked), but we saw good examples of movies where she's not exactly 'anime' with this summer.
I took a friend to this in the cinema and it was some of the best money we’ve ever spent. We laughed the whole way through 😅 The timing to save 5,000 people makes absolutely no sense.. no sense at all. This film is fucking hilarious
This is the only movie in the series I actively disliked. It tried to have some grand narrative all of a sudden that, as you said, retconned everything in the most harebrained fashion. I mean, a corporate takeover? That's what it's all been about? It should've just been the attack on the white house and that's it.
I never understood why isaacs couldn’t kill old actual Alice, it’s what 15 years into the apocalypse? It’s not like the non existent police would arrest him to take him to non existent prison or that money would matter at this point so the whole keeping the company going doesn’t make sense, where are the employees going to spend there paychecks, Kmart? Buffalo Wild Wings? Waffle house? Please tell me waffle house survived or I’ll never forgive you Paul!
I suppose (and I'm just headcanon here) that if he did that the red queen would have the act of murder of someone so high up result in his termination.
Not so fun fact - with a population of about 5K alive, that means the gene pool is significantly reduced and the odds of recessive diseases etc (Not good for a population of any kind) becoming dominant once again. There's a minimum threshold a population should achieve and 5K is dangerously close to it, if not it. I only know this because I was writing a Post-Apocalyptic story and I had to some research.
It is amazing what doing research for a creation will tell you. Did a review for a cheap movie involving the black plague. Learned some amazing things like how it can still pop up like in Madagascar back in 2017-ish.
This movie was the biggest disappointment since Dragon Ball Evolution. The way they obviously had no idea how to end it or even START. The fact that we NEVER find out what happened at the end of retribution (besides wesker betrayed them) but killing off every single character from the game introduced in the previous movie was just BONKERS. Retribution said yeah fuck Chris, Leon, Ada, Jill and even her fucking clone deaf daughter.
Well we kinda know what happened. Everyone got wiped. How exactly? no clue. If I had to guess. Zombies fight humans. BLOOD, DEATH, GORE! and then Wesker lets off explosives or something...I dunno. I just remember I had a coworker back when I was at McDonalds who was just so disappointed when I told him they show you none of that battle. He didn't think the film would be good he just figured the opening would be cool.
6:15 I couldnt Fully Understand just how a computer would know an exact number of anything let alone how many people exactly there are around and left.
What a day. I am out of coffee and tea bags. My replacement Bank Card is delayed. Another heatwave. And a new covering on the pavement on the street, leaves my neighbours and I unable to leave our homes. But soft. What light from yonder Laptop shines? It is the West and Decker Shado is the perfect way to forget my petty troubles.
I remember that my older sister invited me to watch it in 3d because she had coupons. We ended up with a headache we didn't know if it was due to the 3d or the shit we watched.
Great episode, dude. So many funny quips. I love/hate these movies, more love than hate actually, but this stuff has to be called out. This movie was awful. But still fun. Maybe I'm just vaping copium, but I really dig a good train wreck.
"-where sequels seem to actually punish the viewer if they bother to pay attention." This is just more confirmation to me that Horror films should never be franchised, even the best examples inevitably devolve into this. And if ever need proof about how, creatively bankrupt & corrupt Hollywood is, remember not only was Paul W.S. Anderson allowed to run this franchise into the ground, he somehow still has a career.
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I’m convinced that despite Paul Anderson writing all of these movies, he’s never actually seen any of them and he can only VAGUELY remember the plot of the previous film every time he has to write a new one.
He's also doing it while wasted out of his mind.
But yeah with that extra added I compeltely agree with that headcannon. That's what I'm telling my kids.
I think it's more likely that his wife walks into his studio when he's writing and just says 'You know what would be REALLY COOL', and he's like eh, $$$$$
It was hijacked by him and his wife. They didn't care about the lore or the original material. All they cared about was themselves when making these movies. I hate them.
Yes, portraying your wife as a invincible super human without any annoying weaknesses, different costumes that would be ho hum in anime, and a total disregard to plot will make you wealthy!
Let's be honest. At this point, Wes Anderson is just vying for the King of the Simps award and wants everyone else to see his wife as a beautiful, unassailable, super human goddess. We all know hes just making these movies to keep his nose firmly up her ass and for the easy money they both make off them without having to put in ANY actual effort. He's never cared about resident evil as an IP or its lore, it's always been about him and his wife's ego and the money. The dude is a consummate ass-hat and deserves all the dumps that everyone takes on him and all these shitty films. He's literally been in charge of all these movies and cares so little for their own continuity and lore that even his retcons have retcons. The absolute worst part about all this is they aren't even so bad they are good, they are just so bad that they keep getting worse and the Resident Evil IP in film had SO MUCH promise to be something great but it got hijacked by a hack director and his wife for vanity and money. SMDH😔
Wesker, the most iconic villain of the series and one of its biggest badasses, gets taken out by a door from a old lady who did nothing but watch the world burn.
Funny fact Wesker from the movies survived a Purge bomb, really a kind of a fucking nuclear bomb in the 4th movie Just to die like this in 6 why Don't he died in 4 anyway 😂
When they said the antivirus is under Raccoon City, I kept thinking "You mean the Raccoon City that got nuked? Nuked specifically to destroy the city and the hive underneath?".
And in the second movie it was umbrella who nuked it. But it was (of course) retconned to be the government.
This movie has to be the worst case of retconning I’ve ever seen. It retcons not just EVERYTHING about the last film, but the whole series in general. And it is so nonsensical:
-Dr. Isaacs suddenly being the actual big bad when Wesker was CLEARLY his boss the last time we saw him. You know that that was only done because Ian Glein got big on Game of Thrones post-Extinction.
-Red Queen being good now when she was clearly evil in the last film.
-Wesker “pretending” to team with Alice and help her in the last film, which makes zero sense.
-Angela Ashford was clearly the model for the Red Queen, now she’s not. Nor is she even mentioned.
-Leon, Jill, and Ada Wong being just gone with zero explanation. And where is Chris Redfield as well?
-Etc.
Paul W.S. Anderson clearly just DGAF with this one.
It feels like they’re different movies pretending to be a movie franchise and using Mila Jovovich’s face to sell hot cakes in theaters
It's a deep fake movie sold to China.
The worst part about it is that all of the movies were directed by one man.
That's exactly what happened.
Let's be honest. At this point, Wes Anderson is just vying for the King of the Simps award and wants everyone else to see his wife as a beautiful, unassailable, super human goddess. We all know hes just making these movies to keep his nose firmly up her ass and for the easy money they both make off them without having to put in ANY actual effort. He's never cared about resident evil as an IP or its lore, it's always been about him and his wife's ego and the money. The dude is a consummate ass-hat and deserves all the dumps that everyone takes on him and all these shitty films. He's literally been in charge of all these movies and cares so little for their own continuity and lore that even his retcons have retcons. The absolute worst part about all this is they aren't even so bad they are good, they are just so bad that they keep getting worse and the Resident Evil IP in film had SO MUCH promise to be something great but it got hijacked by a hack director and his wife for vanity and money. SMDH😔
@@MsDavid47 Two and three had different directors, Anderson did 1 and 4-6.
The levels of retconning in these series is just outstanding
Let's be honest. At this point, Wes Anderson is just vying for the King of the Simps award and wants everyone else to see his wife as a beautiful, unassailable, super human goddess. We all know hes just making these movies to keep his nose firmly up her ass and for the easy money they both make off them without having to put in ANY actual effort. He's never cared about resident evil as an IP or its lore, it's always been about him and his wife's ego and the money. The dude is a consummate ass-hat and deserves all the dumps that everyone takes on him and all these shitty films. He's literally been in charge of all these movies and cares so little for their own continuity and lore that even his retcons have retcons. The absolute worst part about all this is they aren't even so bad they are good, they are just so bad that they keep getting worse and the Resident Evil IP in film had SO MUCH promise to be something great but it got hijacked by a hack director and his wife for vanity and money. SMDH😔
Evil Dead says hi.@@claireh.2792
In an alternate reality, the Resident Evil movies not only keep well within continuity, put their focus on an ensemble cast of well-rounded characters, and never feel like they've overstayed their welcome, but also pay homage to the original source material without appearing to randomly pander with meaningless fan service.
Unfortunately, it's also the reality where everything tastes like stale candy corn. EVERYTHING.
@@brianbabin6333 I agree on every count. I will add that the movies never pretended to be an adaptation, they always said they were doing their own thing, in their own continuity, with their own characters. It was RE fans that were unreasonable by insisting that the series failed at something it never set out to do in the first place and never advertised itself as doing.
And yeah, I too love the movies but really dislike the 6th.
This movie feels like it comes from another dimension's continuity. Holy shit, wasnt the Red Queen trying to kill everyone in the last movie? Why did Wesker save Alice if he wanted her dead??? Why would Wesker pretend to give her powers back if only HE would know? lol, so much wrong ffs.
Yeah they really screw up Wesker’s character in this. Nothing about him here makes any sense.
The lack of continuity makes sense given that the series is Paul Andersons love letter to his wife. If she looks cool that's all that matters.
@@Lonovavir God i miss Underworld. Kate Beckinsale looked so good in skin tight latex
bro whats fucking halarious to me is Wesker being killed by a fucking door when in the last movie he was basically Neo and survived a explosion mere meters from this face
As a kid it really pissed me off that we didn't see how the Washington battle played out.
Well I was already adult back then, and it pissed me off even more.
I can’t get invested when I can’t see anything and the cinematography is down right atrocious. Makes AVP-R look far better by comparison.
They just ignore most of what they set up minus a small moment, like Alice is controlled by Sam Issacs in 3 for 5 minutes, and nothing else comes. And they did the clone thing in 4 mostly to show off the 3D stuff, they could have spent a full movie on it but wiped it away.
Where did Jill, Ada, and Leon go? They aren’t even mentioned in this film? Also where is Chris Redfield as well?
@michaelsinger4638 if I remember right they were killed off in a novel tie in.
How can you retcon something with such little continuity? A grand paradox.
Exactly
Hardly you simply ask yourself how else things could have gone and just change it.
This thing also happens with the Friday the 13th movies but there it's at least understandable because each movie is written by different person, this series doesn't have that excuse it's the same guy wrote all 6 and directed 4 of these
@@adamcade604 Plus aside from the first and second there usually isn't any carry over characters or plots, besides Jason himself and the fact that he kills folk.
@@GriffinPilgrimdude, in part 2 they don't even bother to explain not only how Jason came back and how he went from a deformed dead corpses in the ending of the original to become this diformed killer living in the woods
This film should be called Retcon Evil: One Retcon to rule them all.
This series is a perfect example on how to derail a train. Not only do they not follow the original story, but from one film to another, the storyline changes. The before the last « chapter » hinted to an interested sequel which ended up in an irritating gimmick.
The derailment of a train is a perfect description. An absolute train wreck of retconning. Total garbage
derail the train? they derailed it, melted it down, turned it into shovels and used the shovels to fling shit at the walls and filmed what stuck.
Let's be honest. At this point, Wes Anderson is just vying for the King of the Simps award and wants everyone else to see his wife as a beautiful, unassailable, super human goddess. We all know hes just making these movies to keep his nose firmly up her ass and for the easy money they both make off them without having to put in ANY actual effort. He's never cared about resident evil as an IP or its lore, it's always been about him and his wife's ego and the money. The dude is a consummate ass-hat and deserves all the dumps that everyone takes on him and all these shitty films. He's literally been in charge of all these movies and cares so little for their own continuity and lore that even his retcons have retcons. The absolute worst part about all this is they aren't even so bad they are good, they are just so bad that they keep getting worse and the Resident Evil IP in film had SO MUCH promise to be something great but it got hijacked by a hack director and his wife for vanity and money. SMDH😔
I never understood the whole timer thing. How did they know exactly when the last human would be bit and turn? "When need to add some tension, add an obscure timer!"
Write that down! Write that down!
And since it was so close to zero when the cure was released. What does that mean? Is there single settlement that nearly had zombies break in? Are there like only 4 people left?
Ending the zombie outbreak so close to everyone dying can't be a good thing.
@@somethingclever4297 They must have somehow calculated the wind speeds and how long it would take for the airborne antivirus to travel around the world, too.
It was supposed to be Umbrella knew the locations of the last enclaves of humans and had set the zombies etc on them. Umbrella knew how long it would take to overrun the enclaves. Of course dropping the antivirus in Racoon City would make no difference to the chances of survival for the last humans unless the antidote travelled at light speed. So yep, everyone's dead, the film couldn't even keep to its own logic.
I love your reaction at the end. “Thank God it’s finally over”, hahaha. It has been a wildly entertaining ride seeing you go through these one by one.
I did get tired of all the sequel bait being retconed, and every time they have some kind of hope or group of survivors, they're always wiped out by the sequel. Like why care about any character besides Alice?
You're not supposed to care about anything but Alice, you're just meant to sit and think "wow the director's wife is awesome and badass".
One thing I never quite figured out - how did a virus cause the world to dry up and turn into deserts?
i never figured out too, the moment the antivirus is set free, all zombies collapse. ok i get it, the antivirus is not only a cure, it "kills" the virus inside the zombies and return them to "normal" dead corpses ok... but a airborne virus, get inside the body by inhaling it trough breathing... but i thought zombies dont breath anymore ^^
Literally the exact same thing I was thinking!
the t-vrus disrupting the animal life plus a little 'nudging' from the umbrella high command is my guess
@@erubianwarlord8208 how would disrupting animal life have any effect on the amount of water on the planet?
@@Ryodraco by removing seed distributors and pollenators thus causing certain plants to die off altering the levels of erosion and evaporation as the carbon dioxide levels rise contributing to a greehouse effect for global warming would be one way
The Jovavich powers transcend the need for a movie franchise with this many sequels to make any sense narratively in any way whatsoever. Great video, my dude!
This really makes makes one appreciate Friday the 13th's tight continuity throughout twelve films.
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Paul Anderson created Alice. Mila played Alice, Paul and Mila ended up getting married and having children. They're still married till this day. Paul literally married the women who played his OC. This man is a legend in my book!
Wait, Wesker's injection didn't give Alice her powers back? THAT WAS A JOKE! My immediate response to that scene was to ask "what is that supposed to do?" and now it's an actual plot point that it did nothing?
They did still have the cure in the second movie. Angela had it with her and Alice used it on Carlos after he was bitten. It was after that that they completely forgot about it.
Phelous declared that the trapped bike was the best thing Umbrella ever produced because it’s the only thing that actually hurt Alice.
Yay, the one that the only thing I remember about is the crazy fast editing fights and something about Alice being a clone I think
"And leaves nothing behind but the fresh scent of Brut" I spit milk all over the place after hearing this😂😅. I haven't heard ANYONE mention Brut since I was like 10 and my old man was obsessed with it.
Not used to seeing "old man" to refer to someone's father, reading that, 10 years old, and peeking the PFP I started hearing banjos in my head for a second.
I recall watching this movie and regretting I had not been subjected to a lobotomy.
The feeling persist
Still doesn't make sense with the water drying up, unfortunately, I mean did zombies start drinking it? Did someone turn on a the desalination plants?
You’d think after 6 films, Paul WS Anderson could have consistent continuity, but I guess that’s wishful thinking.
Rather it's fair to say that after 6 movies he had perfected inconsistency.
I know a fan of the RE movies. He ain't the fussy type.
Why change the pattern in the final movie?
He's very consistent with his inconsistency.
I think the only good movie he really made was Mortal Kombat I really like the reptile fight he did in the movie and the first AVP was dope
Yeah, I watched it in the theatre and yes, it was terrible. My compadre mentioned that it should have been dubbed The Final insult. I have a cheap box set and this disc hasn’t even left its tray once (except during shipping, when it decided to yeet itself in shame). Keep up the great work and have a great day.
Hey, this at least gives us Ruby Rose being sucked up into a giant death fan.
I do “love” how the story only makes sense if you’ve never seen any of the previous films, but yet the writers also put in specific references that you would only get if you’d watched the previous films. Those previous films at least had some fun visuals and decent action unlike this film which has some of the worst edited fight scenes I think I’ve ever seen
Why doesn't Wesker just release the detonator immediately after being handed it. I mean if I was in that situation I would. I'm not letting my enemies walk out of there while I have to stay and die.
Man what a ride! I'm glad you reviewed these movies. I guess if the traitor was an employee of umbrella, that person would've by passed the traps, especially if set traps were connected to the red queen. But that's just 1 of many ways these movies could've been fixed.
I been watching so many years you're so underrated I love you man keep it up
Hard to believe this is from the same guy who made Event Horizon..
That and Mortal Kombat, which is still the best live action vg adaptation if you ask me. Even a terrible director can possibly have a few actual good films in their filmography.
Wonderful summer, thank you very much, Decker ! As an aside, if this movie had been the first entry in the saga (after all it's pretty much self contained) imagine the backlash !
Resident Evil The Retcon. Now It's Personal
My favorite Joke about this Movie from a german YT-Critic:
"Because everybody knows, when its raining the tank has to stay in the garage"
Man I'm glad decker covered the whole Resident evil movie series!!! His reaction on this one especially at the end was hilarious !
At first glance I thought you were Weird Al Yankovitch. Great commentary! I’m subscribing!😅🥰
Getting foot squished by a door / Getting shot by two rockets while sinking in lava - Pretty much the same thing.
This movie,uh, 'series' end up like a morning cartoon. A ton of episodes with no continuation at all.
It is quiet impressive,ngl
Decker, I was waiting on you to review the fourth kind. Creepy, suspenseful, alien phenomenon...
You can't have a summer of Mila Jovovich without the fourth kind!
The confusing thing for me has not been what has changed with the backstory, but why they felt the need to change it.
The backstory on who created the virus and for why would still have worked here if they had left it. It seems a lot of effort to change this just so could (if this is why they did it) eat up some screen time and/or use younger actors etc.
"She's lucky they didn't find her at a BJ's."
I'm going to binge all your vids and give them a like.
You deserve it for that line.
"Behind you" and you pop up.
Haha gave me a good chuckle thanks
When I was younger I was always wondering why these movies never built on each other and just did their own thing each time. I thought they had different directors maybe but apparently the director paul anderson just wings it each time I guess
Weirdly, it's said that the reason Anderson did every RE movie is because he didn't do the second Mortal Kombat movie and didn't like what they did with it.
But now I'm just wondering... would he even have done any different?
@@DeckerShado probably not, considering his history with video game movies.
@@DeckerShadoAnderson didn't direct the 2nd or 3rd movie.
I always enjoy the intro for Decker Shado’s video.
"somehow. Isaacs returned."
Thanks!
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🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
00:32 🧟 *The Final Chapter diverges from sequel bait and presents a new, unrelated storyline in the Resident Evil series, set in a post-apocalyptic world with loose ends to tie up.*
02:01 🔄 *Retconning reveals that Dr. Marcus, not Dr. Ashford, created the T virus for his daughter Alicia, leading to a breakthrough medical miracle cure with unintended consequences.*
03:57 💣 *The movie unveils a significant retcon, shifting responsibility for the viral outbreak's cover-up from Umbrella to the American government, complicating the narrative of the previous films.*
04:27 🤯 *Albert Wesker's betrayal of Alice is exposed, injecting her with a placebo instead of enhancing her powers, creating a complex dynamic that adds layers to the plot.*
06:22 🚑 *The Red Queen contacts Alice, revealing the existence of an antivirus beneath Raccoon City, setting the stage for a mission to save the remaining population and stop the T virus.*
08:49 🔪 *Dr. Isaacs, driven by a nihilistic view of the world due to climate change, plans to wipe out humanity selectively, preserving resources for the elite. The T virus becomes a tool for mass extinction.*
14:07 🤖 *The Red Queen's programming conflict between serving Umbrella and valuing human life adds complexity to her character, making her dependent on Alice to navigate ethical boundaries.*
16:31 🔄 *The revelation of a traitor among the survivors introduces a suspenseful element, leading to a speculation about the identity of the betrayer as the group faces challenges within the Hive.*
19:44 💥 *The decision to destroy Umbrella's cryostasis facility, containing potential survivors, raises ethical questions and adds a moral dilemma to the climax of the movie.*
20:44 🔄 *Doc's betrayal is unveiled, adding a twist to the plot, as he collaborates with Dr. Isaacs against Alice, showcasing the complexity of allegiances among the characters.*
21:41 🧬 *Alice is revealed to be a clone of Alicia Marcus, played by Milla Jovovich, with no memory before the mansion, explaining the unexplained scar on her shoulder.*
22:38 💼 *Alicia Marcus, owning half of Umbrella, secretly opposes the corporation and sends a video to the Red Queen, complicating the power dynamics.*
23:12 🕵️ *Alice exposes Doc as a traitor, neutralizes him, and manipulates Wesker, forcing him to hold the detonator to prevent Umbrella's executives from being blown up.*
24:39 ⚔️ *Alice confronts Isaacs, leading to a showdown in a laser hallway; she tricks him into holding a bomb, causing an explosion that seemingly ends Isaacs and Umbrella.*
26:17 💉 *Despite appearances, Alice survives the explosion, and Umbrella reveals they orchestrated the events to test her willingness to sacrifice herself for humanity.*
27:17 🔄 *The airborne antivirus is released, but the movie ends with sequel bait, hinting at a TV series that ultimately takes a different direction.*
28:19 🎬 *The final chapter is criticized for retconning, unfocused action, and quick-cut editing; it's seen as lacking a compelling story and being hit-or-miss with its action sequences.*
29:44 📉 *Overall, "Resident Evil: The Final Chapter" is considered by the reviewer as having no reason to exist, providing a subpar conclusion to the series with a rating of two barrels of surplus gasoline out of five.*
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So from what I understand of it, the Red Queen could kill those in the Hive because they were already written off. Meanwhile she was hard coded to protect the actual Elites...
Also Dr Isaacs was upgraded with some kind of cybernetics or something.
I am pretty sure that Alice was given that test to see if she was worthy of helping humanity rise back up as its saviour...
Also the viable humans were the ones in on the plan, it wasn't that they were rich. It was they were morally dubious assholes that would attempt to take over any civilization that was rebuilt, would back stab them in a second, and essentially being the last viable humans were the whole point for them going into stasis in the first place.
It would be like saying: Okay these guys are responsible for the extinction of our race, but we can keep our race alive by giving them exactly what they wanted... Let them be the force that rebuilds out world, quietly scheme to wipe out those who weren't in stasis with them, and basically write history forever more as the "winners" where they frame the whole thing as divine punishment and that they were chosen to lead what remained of the "pure" humans who "God" had chosen to survive.
I legit remember thinking that the old Mila from this movie is the same girl from the second movie. I gave this movie a lot morecredit, like cool it all came full circle, only now realizing that's not what happened
How do so many of these "professionals" with all that money have little imagination.
It's about money, not art.
This one is an abomination on every level. Even though, this franchise was never anything special and at best mediocre, the previous 5 films despite their issues were pleasent to watch and worked as guilty pleasures. This movie is the exception to that because it has horrendous editing, garbage cinematography, lighting, sound design and it's just an unpleasant experience, looks so dark & dirty, no fun to be found and typically bad CGI. And don't get me started on the continuity errors that are inexcusable with having the same writer in every film and they are so obvious that even someone like Jeremy jahns, who has stated that he has seen each movie once in the theatres, could still figure out the plot holes.
This movie was really disappointing tbh, Retribution was a fun movie but it had its flaws then The Final Chapter comes out and shits all over the previous one. Only watched this one once and forgot about most of it except for how disappointing it was and how they handled the characters. Good review btw.
This is quite the final movie. In a six movie franchise, they had no problems BSing a reason to not even bother paying attention and probably saving you time in the process minus the first three movies 😂
Tacking religious zealotry onto Isaacs felt to me like a quarter-assed attempted at tying in Sadler from RE 4 with this movie's villain. But eh, fuggettit. The last RezEve movie before this one was so genuinely upsetting to me that I refused to watch this so-called final chapter, until a few friends got together for a rare activity. - A postmortem dissection of this clearly doomed sequel (with booze and pizza, like all the best autopsies). And almost immediately from its clusterfuck of an opening recap, we knew it was going to be messy.
No question about it, "RE:TFC" was D.O.A. and its flogged, battered, half-jumpstarted corpse is just riddled with questionable decisions from head to foot. We seriously shared in your exact sentiment that night as the credits rolled and we all declared in unison, *Thank freaking God!* No I am not the least bit curious to see how any future movies would have tied Alice in with an undying Texas Chainsaw family of weirdos, or a giant vampire lady heading up a troupe of inept circus freaks! No I never had any wish to see what a proposed crossover with "Underworld" would have looked like! Let it remain dead and buried here, Hollywood. And let us move on.
Weskers trap to kill Alice was to rescue her from certain death in that Russia facility to bring her to Washington and just hope the zombies kill her?
The first was good. It showed a side story. After that a total crap show for the rest they butchered the nemesis monster and the "tyrant" they TRIED to do.....UGH. this was the WORST of the batch. Great video as always Mr. Shado❤
doesn't gasoline spoil in a few months in a best case scenario ?
Great summer special as always decker! Keep your head up
You've no idea how much your videos (this one particularly as a new one) to distract me as I dealt with my facing my phobia. Cheers Decker
The story got jumbled so much over the years in these movies . I can’t even take having Issacs as the boss behind this all serious . The trifecta of bitches with the original Alicia Marcus , OG clone and red queen the hero in the end . I get that this is the series that kept her semi relevant over the last 20 + years , but jeez it’s a little much with her role .
giving enough time i most likely could figure out how to tied all the films together with the right edit. I mean i could change the line of the red queen to say she can kill any of the umbrella board member or elite. I would also change the location of the airborne cure cause you the original location was overun already with t zombie. Why you want to work in a base full of them?
the screens talking over each other and then going behind you in unison always reminded me of as similar simpsons joke
So im likely not the only one to notice this but it does seem like mila plays a near carbon copy of an anime hero version of herself with plot armor in all her films. Right?
RE and ultraviolet have good excuses (alongside ultraviolet getting fucked), but we saw good examples of movies where she's not exactly 'anime' with this summer.
I dont know why but you seem to be releasing these at the same rate my wife is watching them. Its great I get a refresher and then a awesome review.
You gotta give this horror series kudos. It's the only one where the final chapter title was actually honest, lol.
I'm honestly beyond disappointed and disgusted that this summers series is over.
I hope one day you can review The Resident Evil computer graphics movies and the so far 2 Dead Rising movies.
I took a friend to this in the cinema and it was some of the best money we’ve ever spent.
We laughed the whole way through 😅
The timing to save 5,000 people makes absolutely no sense.. no sense at all.
This film is fucking hilarious
You put in the work on this series. Also the hair was the best today.
This is the only movie in the series I actively disliked. It tried to have some grand narrative all of a sudden that, as you said, retconned everything in the most harebrained fashion. I mean, a corporate takeover? That's what it's all been about? It should've just been the attack on the white house and that's it.
Decker, please review the CGI Resident evil movies. I love your content and would really like to see your take on them.
At 27:25 it seems Decker had a slight aneurysm lol
I thought you will also include The 4th Kind in this summer series.
I never understood why isaacs couldn’t kill old actual Alice, it’s what 15 years into the apocalypse? It’s not like the non existent police would arrest him to take him to non existent prison or that money would matter at this point so the whole keeping the company going doesn’t make sense, where are the employees going to spend there paychecks, Kmart? Buffalo Wild Wings? Waffle house? Please tell me waffle house survived or I’ll never forgive you Paul!
I suppose (and I'm just headcanon here) that if he did that the red queen would have the act of murder of someone so high up result in his termination.
“My fellow Umbrellicans…” That made me laugh waaayy more than it should have 😆😆😆😆😆
Better title : Resident Evil: The Fuck You Retcon Extraveganza.
Not so fun fact - with a population of about 5K alive, that means the gene pool is significantly reduced and the odds of recessive diseases etc (Not good for a population of any kind) becoming dominant once again. There's a minimum threshold a population should achieve and 5K is dangerously close to it, if not it.
I only know this because I was writing a Post-Apocalyptic story and I had to some research.
It is amazing what doing research for a creation will tell you.
Did a review for a cheap movie involving the black plague. Learned some amazing things like how it can still pop up like in Madagascar back in 2017-ish.
Wish soneone would cleanse the world of lunatics now...
This movie was the biggest disappointment since Dragon Ball Evolution. The way they obviously had no idea how to end it or even START. The fact that we NEVER find out what happened at the end of retribution (besides wesker betrayed them) but killing off every single character from the game introduced in the previous movie was just BONKERS. Retribution said yeah fuck Chris, Leon, Ada, Jill and even her fucking clone deaf daughter.
Well we kinda know what happened. Everyone got wiped. How exactly? no clue. If I had to guess. Zombies fight humans. BLOOD, DEATH, GORE! and then Wesker lets off explosives or something...I dunno.
I just remember I had a coworker back when I was at McDonalds who was just so disappointed when I told him they show you none of that battle. He didn't think the film would be good he just figured the opening would be cool.
Hey, dude the end-links had a Chris Stuckman thing? Is... that on purpose?
6:15 I couldnt Fully Understand just how a computer would know an exact number of anything let alone how many people exactly there are around and left.
You were WAAAYYYY more calm in this review than Phelous was in his
8/9 years ago you reviewed the kamen rider movies and since Shin kamen rider has been released on prime video, would you review that as well?
It's over Decker, it's finally over... maybe... sorta of...
Well...there is one more live action movie in the RE filmography.
Decker are you going to review the TV show or welcome to raccoon city
YES! Been waiting for this to drop, Nice one Decker
Decker you absolutely need to review some Indian zombie movies like Zombie Reddy, Go Goa Gone, Deyyam,
Seriously, from the thumbnail I thought this was weird Al reviewing Rev Eve. 😂😂😂😂 I didn’t see this one, yet somehow I’ve seen all the others.
So fun fact (I suppose) A stuntwoman lost her arm in the scene with the motorcycle during a stunt.
What a day. I am out of coffee and tea bags. My replacement Bank Card is delayed. Another heatwave. And a new covering on the pavement on the street, leaves my neighbours and I unable to leave our homes.
But soft. What light from yonder Laptop shines? It is the West and Decker Shado is the perfect way to forget my petty troubles.
Last movie until they remake it. About 3 years from now, probably.
They made Welcome to Raccoon City. Which also sucked. Might as well call it "References the Movie"
Huh. The algorithmically recommended video is Chris Stuckmans review of this film. I think you've managed to personally offend the algorithm.
I remember that my older sister invited me to watch it in 3d because she had coupons. We ended up with a headache we didn't know if it was due to the 3d or the shit we watched.
I think the highest patreon perk should be Decker shado running out to introduce the donor with a shouted, "The (season) of (donor name)!"
They kill Albert fucking Wesker....with a door
It was a big door
Great episode, dude. So many funny quips. I love/hate these movies, more love than hate actually, but this stuff has to be called out. This movie was awful. But still fun. Maybe I'm just vaping copium, but I really dig a good train wreck.
Personally I enjoy all of these movies but this one but I will admit I was looking forward to this one when it was announced.
"-where sequels seem to actually punish the viewer if they bother to pay attention."
This is just more confirmation to me that Horror films should never be franchised, even the best examples inevitably devolve into this.
And if ever need proof about how, creatively bankrupt & corrupt Hollywood is, remember not only was Paul W.S. Anderson allowed to run this franchise into the ground, he somehow still has a career.
so are you gonna review resident evil welcome to racoon city just curious ?