“Resident Evil” may well be a milestone in movies or at least from my experience as never before have I seen a zombie movie I’ve liked (comedies don’t count) and I’ve most certainly never seen a good videogame adaptation. Based upon a series of games I’ve never spent more than five minutes with “Resident Evil” proves to be a fun experience.

The evil Umbrella corporation is the richest company in the world and in their underground facility, a dangerous chemical is released. The hordes of zombies it creates are kept in lockdown until a team go inside to see what happened. They accidentally unearth the monsters and now, it is a race to get back to the surface.

Milla Jovovich (“The Fifth Element”) plays Alice, who is really the main character of the film. Milla Jovovich is great as she’s not just a pretty face as she dishes out some of her signature fighting skills to defeat the undead. There is one memorable scene in which she kicks a zombie dog. The other characters aren’t too interesting but that’s what I generally find with zombie pictures. The main zombies are okay I guess but there is a larger one with a massive tongue that stands out and is actually quite impressive.

“Resident Evil” suckered me in with its cryptic beginning scenes involving Jovovich’s character waking up nude in a bathtub with no memories (much like the movie “Dark City”). Also, the idea of an evil company with an underground lair is great. I’m not too keen on the zombie stuff but I guess it’s reasonably fun and seeing a zombie dog get kicked is pretty darn funny. The film’s ending is really, really good in my books. “Resident Evil” certainly isn’t anything special but I’ve been waiting for a movie based on a videogame and a zombie movie I can recommend because I knew there had to be at least one which was decent.

It’s titled “The Final Chapter” but I doubt this will be the last entry in the tired “Resident Evil” franchise. The “Resident Evil” films exhausted their potential a few movies ago but they keep pumping them out. This is easily the worst instalment yet and I honestly did not care about what was happening at all.

Alice (Milla Jovovich “The Fifth Element”, “The Fourth Kind”) must return to where the zombie epidemic began as she returns to the underground facility in Raccoon City to find an antivirus that could save humanity from the threat of annihilation. During her mission, she will uncover the secrets of her past while the sinister Umbrella Corporation fights to the bitter end.

I have lost all interest in the Alice character. The revelations about her past feel like a desperate attempt to thrown in some twists. One of the most significant problems with the characters in the “Resident Evil” series is that many of them are clones so we don’t care what happens to them because they will always be back when the actors and actresses need to some more money. There are lots of zombies and other monsters for Alice and the other human survivors to battle their way through but it’s so repetitive by this point.

I have a soft spot for the first film but the filmmakers just want to keep repeating everything and throwing in ridiculous twists to continue making these movies. As long Milla Jovovich is willing to run around as she blasts her way through hordes of the undead, the “Resident Evil” films will continue. If you like these movies then maybe you will enjoy it (the always seems to be an audience for these films) and if you are bored of Jovovich, Kate Beckinsale is basically doing the same thing in the “Underworld” movies.

“Resident Evil: Retribution” is the fifth instalment in the “Resident Evil” franchise and arguably the worst so far. The zombie series is becoming pretty stale at this point and very little is done to mix things up. In fact, this one recycles a lot from the previous entries.

In “Resident Evil: Retribution”, Milla Jovovich (“The Fifth Element”, “Resident Evil: Extinction”) once again returns as Alice as she must escape a huge complex created by the Umbrella corporation. She’ll encounter a ton of monsters and characters from the previous films as she treks through a series of different environments ranging from Moscow to Tokyo. It’s all too much like a videogame where each new area has a boss, you beat them and move to the next level.

Milla Jovovich delivers a few funny one-liners here and there and she is pretty good as she tears up endless amounts of zombies. However, it’s nothing you haven’t seen in the first four films in the franchise. Various characters such as Jill Valentine (Sienna Guillory “Eragon”) and Rain (Michelle Rodriguez “Avatar”) return but they’re nothing special. Some of the monsters such as the one with the big tongue from the original return but it seems a cheap way to avoid coming up with new creatures.

“Resident Evil: Retribution” arguably indicates a decline in the filmmakers’ enthusiasm for the series as rather do something different, this one seems to be all about reliving the older films. There’s not really anything new in this outing; it’s as if some feed the first four films into a machine and this is a randomised output. The story is all over the place and it isn’t worth trying to get your head round it. The action scenes are alright so maybe you’ll get a few thrills here and there but I think even big fans of the series will be disappointed by this one.

“Resident Evil: Extinction” feels like a cross between “Mad Max” and “Day of the Dead” and perhaps that’s fitting for a third instalment in the “Resident Evil” franchise. I liked the first film, I didn’t care much for the second and this third outing doesn’t really do much to revive my interest in the series.

In “Resident Evil: Extinction”, Milla Jovovich (“The Fifth Element”, “Resident Evil”) returns as Alice as she now treks across the desert. She meets up with a convoy of survivors as she hopes to stop the evil Umbrella corporation and survive the undead plague that has now left the world in ruins. However, Umbrella wishes to conduct experiments on the zombies.

Milla Jovovich kicks and shoots her way through zombies and is left with very little to say or do to make us remember why she’s a good actress. The other characters are really dull and you won’t get to know really anything about any of them before they’re being attacked by zombies. This film features both hordes of regular zombies and zombie birds. The scene with the birds will undoubtedly remind you of “The Birds” from Alfred Hitchcock. Sadly, the final zombie creature isn’t anything special.

The first film was set in an underground lab, the next was in a city and this one is in the desert so at least you can say that you get a nice variety of scenery with the “Resident Evil” films. The action sequences are alright but there isn’t much else to enjoy in this picture. “Resident Evil: Extinction” ends just like the last two with no real progress in terms of stopping the zombies so I guess will have to wait until they make a “Resident Evil: Resolution” to see how things end. If you liked the previous two then you’ll probably like this one and if you didn’t care for either of them, I doubt moving things to the desert will greatly impact on your enjoyment of this zombie saga.

“Without Remorse” is another film based on a Tom Clancy novel. However, I hear that this adaptation barely resembles Clancy’s original work. Either way, it’s a seriously dull thriller that doesn’t know whether it wants to be a Tom Clancy movie, a revenge movie or the next “Bourne” movie.

John Kelly (Michael B. Jordan “Creed”, “Black Panther”) is a Navy Seal sent on a dangerous mission in Syria. When he returns home, he plans to leave the military to spend more time with his wife, who is expecting their first child. When his wife is killed by Russian soldiers as a retaliation for his actions in the Middle East, Kelly will stop enough to bring down the people responsible.

Michael B. Jordan is really bland as John Kelly. However, nobody is entertaining in this movie. Jodie Turner-Smith, Jamie Bell (“Billy Elliot”, “Jumper”) and Guy Pearce (“Memento”, “Iron Man 3”) are all just dreadfully boring. The characters in earlier Clancy films such as “Hunt For Red October” and “Sum Of All Fears” were genuinely interesting and they felt realistic. John Kelly in this movie feels more like the protagonists in revenge films such as “John Wick” and “Taken”. It’s a real shame that the realism of Clancy’s characters has been completely lost here.

“Without Remorse” has some exciting sequences near the beginning. Had it just stayed as a war movie set in Syria, it may have worked. When we move back to America, the film loses all focus. It then stumbles into the latter parts of the movie where it changes course again. While a few of the action scenes look slick, the film is a whole is a complete bore. The meticulous detail that made some of the earlier Clancy films such a joy to watch is gone and replaced by a more generic brand of espionage thrills.

Fans of the “Resident Evil” games often complained that the live-action films starring Milla Jovovich (“The Fifth Element”) did not follow the source material very well. “Resident Evil: Degeneration” is the first in a series of 3D animated movies based on the games and fans seem to prefer them to their live-action counterparts. However, I have little to no experience with the games so I found this film to be worse than most of the live-action movies.

Years have passed since Raccoon City was destroyed. Now, a bio-terrorist incident at an airport sees a zombie outbreak. Special agent Leon S. Kennedy is sent to help rescue a sleazy politician that has been caught up in the incident. After escaping the airport, it turns out that another deadly virus could be used by terrorists.

The characters in this movie are pretty moronic. Some of them waste ammo by not bothering to shoot the zombies in the head despite being specifically instructed to only go for headshots and to conserve their munitions. One of the characters mutates into a monster but it’s not very exciting. The impressive animation style has the characters look almost identical to the ones in the “Final Fantasy” films so they look pretty darn good even if their personalities are weak.

The whole movie looks just like a cutscene from a videogame so I’m not surprised that fans of the games seem to like the animated films better than the live-action ones. However, I was pretty bored by most of this movie and struggled to understand all the plot elements because my knowledge of the videogames is very limited. The animation style is impressive but unlike the “Final Fantasy” movies, the environments are often dull so it feels like a real waste. Stay away from “Resident Evil: Degeneration” if you have never played the games.

If one film has lived up to its title it’s “Resident Evil: Damnation” as I certainly felt damned watching this train wreck. I did not like “Resident Evil: Degeneration” because it relied on you knowing lots about the games and was a rather bland movie. “Damnation” is even worse with an even more complex plot.

Leon Kennedy is on a secret assignment as he infiltrates an Eastern European country in the process of tearing itself apart. We learn that the country is not only dealing with political turmoil but mutant monsters as well. It’s up to Kennedy to try and stop the horrifying creatures as he blasts his way through every monster in sight.

The C.G.I. animation may look impressive on the characters but they are so uninteresting and unlikeable that you won’t care. I honestly wanted to see all of them ripped up by all the hideous monsters they encounter. Some of the characters really babble on about elements of the plot that I just didn’t understand. I imagine that I would have needed to have played the videogames to even have a vague idea of what they were talking about. There are plenty of gruesome monsters for Leon and the others to shoot at.

“Resident Evil: Damnation” is a film that feels like you need an encyclopaedia to understand. Some scenes seem to feel eerily like the trouble that began in Ukraine in 2014. I didn’t have a clue what was going on most of the time and instead of trying to meaningfully explain anything, we just get treated to another round of a zombie monster shooting gallery. Maybe hardcore fans of the “Resident Evil” games will love this but I hated almost everything about this film. I’ll gladly watch any of the live-action “Resident Evil” films over this animated monstrosity.

Call me mad but I enjoyed the first “Resident Evil” film. I enjoyed its confusing narrative and its set-up. However, “Resident Evil: Apocalypse” isn’t as pleasing as this goes for the more conventional zombie film feel and joins the ranks with the majority of videogame movies such as “Hitman” and “Doom”.

In “Apocalypse”, the insanely rich corporation of Umbrella re-open their old underground science labs. The virus that caused so much chaos before is once again released and Raccoon City falls. Alice (Milla Jovovich “The Fifth Element”) is back as she tries to find a way to escape the city before it gets nuked so the race is on.

Milla Jovovich is good as usual here and the scene where she comes crashing through into a church on a motorcycle to fight some monsters is kind of funny… I’ll admit that. The other characters are severely bland but that’s no surprise to me as this was the case for the first film and the majority if not all zombie films (no I’m not including comedies such as “Army Of Darkness”). The zombies are a bit dull and the only new type of creature really is dumb as he wears armour to protect him from endless bullets but lacks a helmet.

“Resident Evil: Apocalypse” may entertain some people a lot more than the original as it does take the more common zombie movie route but I think that does it no favours whatsoever. The first film was cryptic so the sequels should provide answers, instead of this it provides us with more questions but we don’t care enough to ask them. The movie feels awfully like “Escape From New York” but where that film impressed, this one wants us to indulge in explosive but lacklustre action. It’s dumb, it’s violent, it feels very lengthy despite the short runtime and it’s not much better than “Alien vs. Predator”.

“Resident Evil: Afterlife” is the fourth film in the “Resident Evil” series. It’s probably the best one since the first film but it’s still not particularly entertaining. This film has now convinced me that the people behind the “Resident Evil” series are the same kind of people that make slasher films. They’re not that interested in making entertaining films, they just want to make more films because the endings always mean a sequel is in the works.

In “Resident Evil: Afterlife”, Alice (Milla Jovovich “The Fifth Element”, “Resident Evil: Apocalypse”) continues her fight against the Umbrella corporation and to find a mysterious safe haven. She finds herself in a prison in L.A. along with several other survivors but the place is surrounded by zombies.

Milla Jovovich has officially ditched trying to create an interesting character as she spends the majority of the film blowing up endless supplies of zombies but at least she looks good doing it. The other survivors such as one played by Wentworth Miller (“Underworld”) are really dull. The zombies now sometimes open their mouths like a kind-of squid or plant and that looks pretty good and the big zombie with a giant axe is also quite impressive.

The action sequences are pretty explosive and that’s what I like most about the film; the special effects look fairly impressive. I get the feeling that this one was highly inspired by “The Matrix” trilogy so mix that with a zombie survival set-up and then you can pretty much picture what this film is like. I think this one is the best one since the first because the action and effects are fairly impressive and I think the story twists in the most creative ways since the first film but I still was not won over by it. If you’re desperate to see a film where Milla Jovovich shoots her way through hordes of the undead then you’ll be fine but don’t expect anything more.

Tommy Lee Jones is probably still best known for the “Men In Black” films. People also seem to forget that he has died in a lot of his films too. He’s a list of some of his most noteworthy onscreen deaths.

5. Jason Bourne

Jones plays a C.I.A. boss trying to bring down Jason Bourne (Matt Damon “Dogma”, “The Martian”). Unfortunately, these people have not learned that Jason Bourne is pretty much unstoppable. Sadly, Bourne himself doesn’t actual kill Jones’ Robert Dewey. That responsibility is left to Alicia Vikander (“Tomb Raider”) as she shoots him dead to save Bourne.

4. Space Cowboys

Tommy Lee Jones bravely sacrifices himself by flying a dangerous satellite out of Earth’s orbit in the final act of “Space Cowboys”. We eventually see his dead body in the spacesuit on the Moon. The character was always meant to be one of the original astronauts sent to the Moon so he finally gets his wish in death.

3. Batman Forever

Batman (Val Kilmer “Tombstone”) defeats Two-Face (Jones) by throwing some coins. Two-Face can’t resist them and loses balance. The epic music, the slow-motion effects and the explosions are what make this death scene so memorable.

2. Small Soldiers

Major Chip Hazard (Jones) is a toy soldier. He leads the battle against the rival Gorgonite toys and their human allies. After defeating Archer (the Gorgonite leader), Chip prematurely declares victory and gets electrocuted to death by Alan (Gregory Smith “The Patriot”). It’s an impressive death scene but it’s a little underwhelming that he gets taken out by Alan rather than Archer.

1. Under Siege

Jones is terrorist leader William Stranix. His team has seized control of an American battleship. In the finale, he gets into a knife fight with the heroic Casey Ryback (Steven Seagal “Above The Law”). Seagal sticks a knife in Jones’ head and then needlessly smashes him through a computer screen. You’re got to love it when the hero has to make sure the bad guy is doubly dead.