This is very true but people shouldn't have to connect the dots to this sloppy, lazy, contrived and shoe horned final chapter.
The other films are a dumb as a bag of rocks but at least they are relatively consistent in their core story, this one is like it was written in two or three days by a new-comer to the franchise.
I've already filled in blanks myself in order to stay sane when thinking about how crap this movie is.
It does make some sort of sense if everything Umbrella does post Apocalpse, as the guy pointed out above, is actually carried out by a combination of expendable real personal and clones who don't realise they're expendable/clones also destined to die in the wiping clean of the world.
Therefore, they continue on Umbrella's work on the surface, looking to cure the virus, replicate Alice's powers, etc not realising it to be utterly in vain - because they're either expendable or cloned. (though this would NOT explain why the frozen dudes would risk their clones discovering a cure)
Umbrella's top guys are therefore already frozen when the first movie is unfolding. Spence, like Alice, was also a clone programmed to release the virus (though that seems an extraordinarily stupid way to release a world ending virus.)If Rain from the 2002 movie is a clone model, as it Carlos from the 2004 one, there's no reason not to think some/all of the team/Umbrella security service and many scientists from the first movies could also all be clones.
Maybe the Red Queen is able to kill everything in the 2002 movie, despite her statement that she 'cannot harm umbrella employees' and must 'safeguard humans' because killing everyone in the hive and sealing it is for the greater good of saving humanity and Umbrella, not understanding the sinister plan as she is simply an AI programme.
It's all very half baked and to be honest, I don't believe Paul WS Anderson put any thought into it at all and does not have a 'canon' to work from.
There's still no escaping the fact that even if you attempt to force it to work from a canon sense and it's all legit, it's still a stupid, ridiculous and nonsensical plot that cheapens the franchise.
Also have to wonder, when Dr. Issacs ask's the tank crew to turn around in TFC, they saw 'Can't sir, I have my orders'.
Given that the clone Dr. Issac doesn't realise he's a clone, and believes himself to be head of Umbrella, where the heck are these orders coming from and why does he not question them?!
I feel like there was still loads of manned Umbrella bases and strike forces around the world that were not delved into at all in this movie.
The whole thing still screams 'MOAR SEQUELS' as it doesn't wrap up the story at all, just Alice's backstory really - BOWs, T-Virus, Umbrella Corp are all still active on a global level.
Hell, they could even get away with saying that Wesker at The Hive himself was a clone and thus not the original, T-Virus infected Wesker we know from Afterlife, and still pulling strings somewhere else.
Screw Paul WS Anderson for making me have to think of all this stuff to stop myself getting really angry with the mess that is The Final Chapter.
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Xyberfaust
7 years ago
With the way everything plays out, you gotta think that there is a lot of room for 'what-ifs?'
Nearly every movie opens with Alice waking up.
The fifth film acknowledges the insanity and awe of this universe.
I stepped away from that movie thinking that Alice and Becky were actually real people that died and were reunited through their clones.
I thought it was the most beautiful fu king thing ever.
Their short-lived relationship is my favorite thing in the series.
That moment when they discover their clones on an assembly line is the best in the series.
"Mommy is that you? You're my mommy aren't you?"
I just saw The Final Chapter for the first time yesterday after rewatching the five films.
I finished The Final Chapter with the same questions of how everything contradicts what we knew or thought we knew before, but that also mirrors Alice and her dilemma (as well as everyone else, they don't know if they are a clone or not, how can anyone know for sure?)
How do we know Raccoon City in Apocalypse wasn't a simulation like the cities in Retribution?
Notice how Alice dies before the helicopter can leave the airspace of the city. How convenient.
The ending of Apocalypse always confused me.
Alice has all these powers and then Carlos, Jill, AJ, and Angie all show up just at the right time and then Dr. Isaac doesn't see any of this. He just gets up from being knocked out by Alice and then gives orders to let them go. He already knew what was happening. There's no way he could know those people were saving Alice at that time.
Unless it was all part of a simulation.
That Alice obviously passed the test, so he let the friend clones take her out of the simulation and into the world.
Maybe.
There's so many ways you can look at this.
What if everything in The Final Chapter isn't real? What is real?
In Retribution, those clones have imprinted memories of a life they never lived.
Which memories are the real ones to all these people?
And are those even clones? What if the events in Retribution are implanted memories?
I haven't even begun to really think about this.
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terrorfirmer-ie
7 years ago
It's mind melting, isn't it. The thing is, do we really give Paul WS Anderson the credit that he actually thought this deep, yet failing, somehow, to explain it all on screen?
It can be brute forced to make The Final Chapter sort of work from a continuity POV - and that's the only thing keeping me from flying off the handle at this awful, insulting 'Final Chapter' - but this was not related on screen at all.
I look back at the first few movies, their plots, and how they made sense and followed a narrative that was easy to understand and follow.
How did he get to this point of churning out incoherent, contradictory nonsense that dismiss older films and ignore previously introduced major plot points?
Maybe he realized the average fan either doesn't care, or else doesn't even remember the plots of the older movies. He decided to focus entirely on Alice and ignore the rest of the series in entirety.
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pawlo-86
7 years ago
Hmm. It started with Alice and ended with Alice. Just think.
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