Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021)

A great improvement over the previous movies, but it still misses the mark. Discussing what "is" Resident Evil will never be easy, both the games and the movies reached quite a wide audience, and the two cannons have widely different themes, lovers of the games will want more gore, darkness, horror and a bit of cheesiness, and lovers of the movies will be looking forward to big set pieces, pumped action scenes, and a wide cast of characters. Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccon City is clearly trying to bridge the gap by offering an experience closer to…

50/100 I love all the films in the original movie franchise so I was looking forward to this one. This is a reboot that is supposed to follow the first two installments of the video games much more closely ...to its detriment, me thinks. It could have been a great film as it has some really good bones but many of them were broken with some awfully ludicrous decisions; the Police Chief's behavior was totally ridiculous and entirely unnecessary, some other characters were just bland extras, action was dark and weak and it wasn't well scripted. Cool…

It is less stupid than the previous movies, but that doesn't make it a great movie. It does lean into the characters established by the video games, and I'm not sure that that's a particularly good thing. It's well acted and it has lovely effect work, but it isn't a fantastic movie and certainly not one of the better zombie movies out there.