Every Resident Evil Movie Ranked From Worst To Best

7. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter

Long-suffering fans hoping for anything resembling a fitting send-off for Paul W.S. Anderson's Resident Evil movies were surely left bitterly disappointed by 2017's execrable finale, The Final Chapter.

A lazy, cynical attempt to cash in on the success of Mad Max: Fury Road, The Final Chapter scales back the silliness of the last few movies but finds almost nothing interesting to replace it with.

The action sequences are edited into headache-inducing oblivion, and Anderson has the gall to end the film with a plot twist regarding the true nature of protagonist Alice (Milla Jovovich) that basically undermines the entirety of the series.

Jovovich is clearly still having fun in the role and Iain Glen devours the scenery as villain Dr. Isaacs, but by this point the franchise's own mythology has been so aggressively contorted and contradicted that it's practically impossible to care about anything that's happening.

The Final Chapter is less a satisfying conclusion to the series than a craven attempt to milk the cash cow one last time, and considering it became the highest-grossing film in the franchise, that plan absolutely worked in spite of its abject awfulness.