10 Movies From 2017 That Died At The US Box Office
2. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
US Box Office: $26,830,068
With the worst domestic box office of the entire franchise, this fifth sequel looked like it might live up to its title until it became a smash hit in China. That helped the movie to an overseas gross of $285 million, making it the biggest worldwide hit in the franchise.
Life’s weird, isn’t it?
Final Chapter or not, you can say this for the movie: it’s a terrific distraction when you’re doing chores around the house. You can stay for the action scenes, move on when you lose interest and dip in and out without missing anything.
Resident Evil sequels have always been reliably awful but at least they had the money to stage some epic-scale action scenes that held the attention (see: Afterlife’s opening attack on Umbrella HQ). Mounted on the lowest budget since the 2002 original, Final Chapter can’t even manage that so instead settles for a few blah, over-edited sequences that wouldn’t look out of place in a 80s Mad Max rip-off.
Take your time coming up with the next one.