10 Movies That Were Never Meant To Be Good

You can say this much for the final (ha!) instalment of this franchise: 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.

Nobody’s trying too hard this time around and a sense of contractual obligation hangs over the whole enterprise from the lack of stakes to the surprising ease with which Alice (Milla Jovovich) gains access to the antivirus that destroys organisms infected by the T-virus. If the solution was so simple, how come it took five sequels to arrive there?