Resident Evil: the Final Chapter

If this is, indeed, the last in the record-breaking sci-fi horror series then original writer/director Paul WS Anderson ends his video-game franchise in satisfying high style. After a multi-episode recap, Alice (ever-ready Milla Jovovich) is given one last chance by the Red Queen computer to save humanity from being wiped out in preparation for a new world order. It means going back to Racoon City's Umbrella Corps base, meeting old friends (Ali Larter) and nemeses (zombie dogs, multi-cloned panto villain Iain Glen) and hopefully releasing a covert airborne antivirus to stop the cynically orchestrated apocalypse. It's epic in scale, with gratifying nods to Mad Max and World War Z, relentlessly paced, frantically edited and overstuffed with non-stop exciting action. Anderson quickly gets into the gore groove, ramps up the mutant monster attacks, piles on Paul Haslinger's head-banging score and ticks every running-and-killing living-dead box with a confident, all-cylinders-firing élan.