RESIDENT EVIL: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021) Review

[@muccmaster]

I'll never understand why they can't get this series right for Hollywood. The first 3 games are basically perfectly made for an easy transition to movie. They're all fairly short so you won't have to cut anything important, full of great horror and action moments, and have enough of a story to fill a 1-1/2 to 2 hour film. Maybe one day they'll understand this and start with a full RE1 mansion incident movie.

[@michaelcassy9592]

BECAUSE VIDEOGAMECURSE

[@empressnitara1333]

Not sure what movie you watched, but I don’t at all agree with you. People gotta be nuts if they think it’s possible to incorporate 10+ hours of gameplay into a 2 hour or under film. That is in no way realistic or logical. Many elements of games would never transfer well onto film. I don’t want to come see constant backtracking and revisiting the same rooms in the mansion or police station. That would become stale and boring. I don’t want a detective story like Clue with zombies and coming across documents and reading constantly. Do you people even think before you type and speak out? You have any idea how much screen time that adds up to and takes, and how it interferes with PACING in a film? You’d be surprised. The boarding house residence wouldn’t work on film. It’s not an interesting enough setting. This movie did everything absolutely right. I had an absolute blast. Saw it twice and loved it even more the 2nd time. They took all the scenes from the first 2 games which would work well cinematically and created an amazing horror tone. This movie was more horror than Halloween 2018 and Halloween kills with very minimal humor. Sure Leon and Jill could have looked more like the game, but that’s so superficial it doesn’t ruin the movie for me. Admittedly I don’t get why they didn’t just let Leon’s actor keep his real life normal blonde hair, but regardless I still got everything I came for and loved it. Only thing I’d have done differently was have included at least 1 hunter and have had it kill Richard since we weren’t getting a snake instead of zombies. Next best reptile. I also think they could have at least shown kenpo gunshop for Claire to find weapons. But that isn’t their fault. It was the budget. Movie was awesome. This fanbase has unreasonable expectations and can’t appreciate something good and fun if it smacked them across the forehead. The music score even reminded me of the Amityville horror main titles score from the 70s.

[@virgogaming6488]

The games don't translate well to film, that's why they exist as games.

[@nikoladzhurov1800]

@@virgogaming6488 Lol you can do the first part RE 1 movie with the Trevor family/following the helicopter crash etc or fuck it skip all that just go into re 1. The games are perfectly cut to make movies out of and even stretch em out if you keep in mind the side stories/extra content such as manga. It is mind-blowing that studios cant get it right cause its just there to be ctrl c and ctrl v ed for the most part

[@virgogaming6488]

@@nikoladzhurov1800 Even so the story for RE1 is paper thin and would only work as a short film. The characters from the games aren't even that good, they couldn't carry a film for the audience to be invested in. That's why Alice was created in the Anderson films for general audiences to project themselves onto just how the games have characters the players can project themselves onto.

[@heavyspoilers]

Great review, movie was disastrous. They massacred my boy Leon.

[@megashillyshally]

I started off really liking this iteration of Leon, his introduction was true to his backstory and endearing at first. But by the time he’s in the RPD I was truly confused with the direction they decorate to go with him. The “crush” scene featuring him was a highlight though. Even if they did use that “unaware of nearby danger” trope too much.

[@empressnitara1333]

Not sure what movie you watched, but I don’t at all agree with you. People gotta be nuts if they think it’s possible to incorporate 10+ hours of gameplay into a 2 hour or under film. That is in no way realistic or logical. Many elements of games would never transfer well onto film. I don’t want to come see constant backtracking and revisiting the same rooms in the mansion or police station. That would become stale and boring. I don’t want a detective story like Clue with zombies and coming across documents and reading constantly. Do you people even think before you type and speak out? You have any idea how much screen time that adds up to and takes, and how it interferes with PACING in a film? You’d be surprised. The boarding house residence wouldn’t work on film. It’s not an interesting enough setting. This movie did everything absolutely right. I had an absolute blast. Saw it twice and loved it even more the 2nd time. They took all the scenes from the first 2 games which would work well cinematically and created an amazing horror tone. This movie was more horror than Halloween 2018 and Halloween kills with very minimal humor. Sure Leon and Jill could have looked more like the game, but that’s so superficial it doesn’t ruin the movie for me. Admittedly I don’t get why they didn’t just let Leon’s actor keep his real life normal blonde hair, but regardless I still got everything I came for and loved it. Only thing I’d have done differently was have included at least 1 hunter and have had it kill Richard since we weren’t getting a snake instead of zombies. Next best reptile. I also think they could have at least shown kenpo gunshop for Claire to find weapons. But that isn’t their fault. It was the budget. Movie was awesome. This fanbase has unreasonable expectations and can’t appreciate something good and fun if it smacked them across the forehead. The music score even reminded me of the Amityville horror main titles score from the 70s.

[@mcruz4571]

He was, too blond too badass and too white...so they had to change it...

[@Dravianpn02]

@@empressnitara1333 you're in the minority for a reason. Play the games again and watch more movies and then you'll see why you're in the minority. It's a good thing.

[@MoldyMojoMonkey]

@@empressnitara1333 people wanting a more accurate adaptation doesn't mean they want 10 hours of backtracking and document reading. Don't be ridiculous.

[@SylvesterAshcroft88]

Leon's actor looks a lot more like an approximation of Carlos from Resident Evil 3, especially after playing the remake, so it's a strange casting choice as there going to have to cast a very similar looking actor if they want to do an RE3 sequel to this film, or have a really odd situation whereby the miscasting leads to further confusion in the next film.

[@lovejoy1311]

Agreed!

[@hazukichanx408]

Plot twist: For the reboot sequel Resident Evil: Welcome to Nemesis, they change Carlos into a blonde waspy guy! =D

[@HappyCynic]

Let's be honest. This shit ain't getting a sequel.

[@ilyadratutin6385]

It is moron it’s a great si fi flick

[@HappyCynic]

@@ilyadratutin6385 If that comment was aimed at me, learn to spell before calling other people names.

[@JoJoJoker]

Hollywood, all we want is an exact live adaptation. Don’t get too creative with us.

[@SkyFly19853]

Would they ever listen?... 😞 They didn't even listen when they made Cowboy Bebop Live Adaptation... 😞

[@patwaters-actormoviereviewer]

I think Robbie Amell is a good Chris Redfield, he’s better than Wentworth Miller and acts like someone who actually studied the source material. Jill, Leon and Wesker are handled really strangely (in a bad way).

[@megashillyshally]

Chris’ performance and character was a definite highlight for me too. Leon was the most underserved of the game characters, and it was even a little over the top in terms of him being a bullied / lacking in confidence. On the whole it was very enjoyable, but I really wonder how someone unfamiliar with the backstory from the games would enjoy it.

[@patwaters-actormoviereviewer]

@@megashillyshally I don’t think they will, considering those casual moviegoers liked Anderson films. (To this day I still don’t know why).

[@markz_editz2280]

@@megashillyshally some people hasnt played the games they enjoyed it but some of them hate it cause it doesnt make sense

[@virgogaming6488]

I still thought most of the Anderson films were better than Welcome to Raccoon City despite not being as faithful to the source material.

[@gjergjaurelius9798]

@@virgogaming6488 I think they ALL are better. At least they fun to watch. Ya know so bad it's good. This just....BAD.

[@elmerserrano3705]

So they casted Carlos but named him Leon, casted Sheva and named her Jill, and casted Chris "The Fridge" Redfield and called him Wesker.

[@the_manmachine]

you are absolute right ! btw. the escape scene from rpd (rolling gate) was imho from part 3

[@vanyadolly]

Tom Hopper would have been a great Chris tbh...

[@IdiocyShow]

WTF is casted? It’s just cast, learn words

[@kazuhirala]

I’m not entirely sure why they went with a live action film and instead with a 8 or 10 episodic show where I believe Resident Evil could shine with flushing out the story and characters. It’s such a shame that this series just can’t get its leg up. So far the Netflix show that released months ago was pretty on par

[@GraySkull289]

Just wait for the new Netflix show that follows Weskers kids. I think that's going to be worse than this film.

[@lindblumpickles3407]

I just wish they’d make an RE1 movie. I am 100% certain it could be done in an entertaining way, instead of watching them “backtrack along the mansion for hours.” We just need a competent script writer. Like for the love of God, could we get even a tiny amount of the cheesy Jill and Barry banter in just ONE of these movies??? It’s a travesty that it’s never been done… and there are 10+ movies so far, counting the CG ones. Capcom, or whoever it is at the company that sees these products and thinks “yeah, that’ll do. They’ll be happy with that.” Is severely out of touch with the fan base.

[@n.b.l.5709]

"the mansion" can be scary as $$$$ if done right, so many surprised but nope smh

[@DaudRotama]

Jill and Chris should have been the main protagonists of the movie, not Claire and Leon. Actually, this movie had an ensemble cast so everyone was main protagonists. It's too much.

[@ivanandrade1375]

They need to make a trilogy with each movie focusing on each game. Make the first 3 games.

[@Johny40Se7en]

Ditto. Steer clear of that absolute stinker RE4, where EVERYTHING started plummeting into the infamous shit fests we know today 🥴

[@empressnitara1333]

Not sure what movie you watched, but I don’t at all agree with you. People gotta be nuts if they think it’s possible to incorporate 10+ hours of gameplay into a 2 hour or under film. That is in no way realistic or logical. Many elements of games would never transfer well onto film. I don’t want to come see constant backtracking and revisiting the same rooms in the mansion or police station. That would become stale and boring. I don’t want a detective story like Clue with zombies and coming across documents and reading constantly. Do you people even think before you type and speak out? You have any idea how much screen time that adds up to and takes, and how it interferes with PACING in a film? You’d be surprised. The boarding house residence wouldn’t work on film. It’s not an interesting enough setting. This movie did everything absolutely right. I had an absolute blast. Saw it twice and loved it even more the 2nd time. They took all the scenes from the first 2 games which would work well cinematically and created an amazing horror tone. This movie was more horror than Halloween 2018 and Halloween kills with very minimal humor. Sure Leon and Jill could have looked more like the game, but that’s so superficial it doesn’t ruin the movie for me. Admittedly I don’t get why they didn’t just let Leon’s actor keep his real life normal blonde hair, but regardless I still got everything I came for and loved it. Only thing I’d have done differently was have included at least 1 hunter and have had it kill Richard since we weren’t getting a snake instead of zombies. Next best reptile. I also think they could have at least shown kenpo gunshop for Claire to find weapons. But that isn’t their fault. It was the budget. Movie was awesome. This fanbase has unreasonable expectations and can’t appreciate something good and fun if it smacked them across the forehead. The music score even reminded me of the Amityville horror main titles score from the 70s.

[@palbaselim]

@@empressnitara1333 exactly.the formula is already there.like aliens,a group of soldiers enter a house/facility for investigation not knowing what they are getting into and it turns into survival.that's it.

[@MrRBX]

@@empressnitara1333 the RE games are less than an hour each

[@jplayer073]

I loved the Anderson movies, but I know they were terrible. I can't believe they somehow made something worse than them. How difficult is it to clear such a low bar?

[@virgogaming6488]

Because Anderson is the king of B movies. Welcome to Raccoon City is a low quality B movie by comparison.

[@niallreid7664]

The first two of those were legitimately great B movie schlock.

[@Ablaze1983]

There is no way in all hell you're gonna convince me that this director played any of the Resident Evil games, not as bad as he destroyed this movie, fuck no.

[@HighCarbJoey]

I saw this today. I came in with low expectations. I did like it more than the others. Maybe if they make another they will listen to fans with what we want. I wonder how well they could do with re4 in a movie.

[@justinriley]

What the hell did they do to my boy, Leon?

[@darkwoods1954]

I can't understand them race swapping Jill. Other than box ticking blacksploitation.

[@songoku9348]

This film’s mere existence pisses me off. Also I don’t agree with changing ethnicity of Leon and Jill. And no, I don’t give a damn about anyone’s opinion. I would’ve rather they had original characters and leave the main cast as they are.

[@trollhunter8842]

They couldn't get Julia Voth or Sasha Zatova to play Jill Valentine but chose some actress who looks nothing like her.

[@Natedawg38]

Never, ever, ever has it been so hard to be a resi fan and watch time and time again the stupendous amount of blown chances capcom have made with relation to the raccoon arc being adapted for the screen.

[@niallreid7664]

At least the games are absolutely killing it overall. I remember when the movies AND games were bad.

[@craigfin3222]

To me it seems that the director wanted to do both, his own stuff and stay faithful, and it really just became a mess.

[@Whalewraith]

To me it was just a director who wanted to subvert expectations. What they did to Leon was unforgivable to any fan.

[@Salfordian]

They turned Leon into Mr Bean

[@jpsrandom6943]

Video game adaptations are too hard to make for the main stream media. Why is it so hard to hear the feedback? Look how the sonic movie did at the box office, they went far and beyond to make a movie audiences like, they had to spent extra time and money but the result was very good. At this point if a movie can't make a good representation of the source material is just un acceptable.

[@jacobsoper4708]

The Sonic movie literally took an existing film (Hop co-starring James Marsden) and transplanted Sonic into it. The success of Sonic is directly tied to not being a slave to the source material and using a proven formula to build the film around. Plus the introduction of multiple audience proxy characters including Agent Stone, and significantly reworking Robotnik into a character that mainstream audiences would accept, with Stone grounding him and asking questions on behalf of the audience.

[@kenziej5150]

Ok but to be fair that video game series is created for children, so it is a children film which always make $$$

[@GraySkull289]

Director said he's a huge John Carpenter fan and based Leon on Jack Burton from Big Trouble in Little China. I can't see the logic in doing that.

[@jenniferstevenson7180]

Even Jack Burton wasn't that stupid. He was an odd, humorous hero, but not an idiotic one. But I can't understand why a writer would base an existing character on anyone but the existing character. Ridiculous.

[@SimpleSlave]

There is a weird irony in watching a movie, based on a game, becoming more game-like-looking with the heavy use of CGI. I don't know. Seems backwards to me. At some point might as well pass the controller and let us play it.

[@kenziej5150]

That is the reason my interest was sparked in this film. It looked aesthetically like the games

[@SimpleSlave]

@@kenziej5150 While the locations and aesthetics does look closer to the game. I wished they went with a more traditional set/location and actual practical special effects. The CGI could've been left for some of the more complex scenes. The Tyrant could've been an actor in prosthetic (think Tim Curry in Legend) and maybe have contortionists for the Lickers. Using good camera angles and smart use of lighting and composition you can get away with a fairly low budget affair that still looks amazing. Maybe for the next time they inevitably Reboot the franchise again, we might get something like that...lol. Of course I'm joking. That boat has sailed.

[@CRUELLANDER]

Seriously, they should get me to write and direct this film. I would’ve directed it way better. But I’d want the budget to be increased from 25 million dollars to 35 million dollars. I would’ve done casting better, directing, writing, & more.

[@callasfinest]

i feel like the egos of the directors wont allow them to do a 1 to 1 remake.. i think they feel the need to make changes in order to "stand out" but what they dont realize is the original gameplay and cinematics are already exactly what we want to see on screen.. its super sad to have the equivalent of a bad cover band play your favorite song.

[@pat2430]

I'll be seeing this movie next Tuesday with my wife. My first vacation in 10 years and first movie I saw in theaters since deadpool 2. I know it's a crap film but I happy to see a movie in the theater with my wife.

[@solusdeath]

It's worth a one time watch, but go in with low expectations.

[@pat2430]

@@solusdeath oh I plan on it. As long as I can get a Pepsi and some pop corn and my wife I'm good

[@Whalewraith]

Go see Spiderman...

[@Matt_Bright_1983]

I hated this movie so much that I watched a pirated version and STILL felt like I got ripped off. What a dumpster fire

[@empressnitara1333]

Not sure what movie you watched, but I don’t at all agree with you. People gotta be nuts if they think it’s possible to incorporate 10+ hours of gameplay into a 2 hour or under film. That is in no way realistic or logical. Many elements of games would never transfer well onto film. I don’t want to come see constant backtracking and revisiting the same rooms in the mansion or police station. That would become stale and boring. I don’t want a detective story like Clue with zombies and coming across documents and reading constantly. Do you people even think before you type and speak out? You have any idea how much screen time that adds up to and takes, and how it interferes with PACING in a film? You’d be surprised. The boarding house residence wouldn’t work on film. It’s not an interesting enough setting. This movie did everything absolutely right. I had an absolute blast. Saw it twice and loved it even more the 2nd time. They took all the scenes from the first 2 games which would work well cinematically and created an amazing horror tone. This movie was more horror than Halloween 2018 and Halloween kills with very minimal humor. Sure Leon and Jill could have looked more like the game, but that’s so superficial it doesn’t ruin the movie for me. Admittedly I don’t get why they didn’t just let Leon’s actor keep his real life normal blonde hair, but regardless I still got everything I came for and loved it. Only thing I’d have done differently was have included at least 1 hunter and have had it kill Richard since we weren’t getting a snake instead of zombies. Next best reptile. I also think they could have at least shown kenpo gunshop for Claire to find weapons. But that isn’t their fault. It was the budget. Movie was awesome. This fanbase has unreasonable expectations and can’t appreciate something good and fun if it smacked them across the forehead. The music score even reminded me of the Amityville horror main titles score from the 70s.

[@gjergjaurelius9798]

@@empressnitara1333 nah this movie sucks and you write too much. You wasted so much time watching this movie ....twice and paid for it! Seeing the fuckin short story you wrote wasting time is a hobby, huh?🧐🤣🖕🏻👊🏻

[@Matt_Bright_1983]

@@empressnitara1333 I didn't say anything about what I liked or didn't like about this movie, so how is it that I didn't "think before I typed"? You know absolutely nothing of what I expected from this film or what I thought of how they adapted it other than the fact I didn't like it. Maybe don't make assumptions about people, because you just end up looking like an asshole. Also, what the heck are you talking about saying the actor playing Leon has blonde hair? He is of Indian descent and has very black hair naturally, just like he does in the film 🙄

[@jenniferstevenson7180]

@@empressnitara1333 This movie was written in the most amateurish way possible, playing on the nostalgia of fans instead of actually taking the time to create a story that could stand on its own without cringey dialogue, character assassinations, and plot patchwork. The majority of the movie gravitates around game references and Easter eggs before it even gets to the point. RE1 could have been made by adding depth to the story. We could've had an opening that introduced Alpha Team and their mission at the mansion. Show them encountering an unexpected, horrific situation, then cut to Jill's and Chris' team where we get to know them a little. Reveal the bomb about Alpha Team going MIA, and take it from there, playing up suspense, horror and some action. The answer wasn't in adding silly fillers and dumb dialogue or in tossing in a storyline that is 2 months apart from the current story. The answer lay in branching out from original idea and add some content to put meat into the story. As bad as an adaptation as Anderson's original RE was, at least he told the full tale of Umbrella as the villain of Raccoon City with its base within the mansion. By the end of that single film, we knew what Umbrella was, what their experiments were, what their goals were, and what the effect was on the city. WtRC only made sense if you knew the story, and even then it was sketchy, only aesthetically familiar with name drops and a few sets to clarify that it was RE.

[@MoldyMojoMonkey]

@@Matt_Bright_1983 they have copy and pasted that same wall of drivel on loads of people's comments. Seems like it's just a kid who is angry that nobody likes a shit film that he likes. Fortunately, the rest of us have standards.

[@carveraugustus3840]

Much respect Ollie. I had much The same opinion after I saw it, not great, but better as a movie, and obviously an actual adaptation of the games the Paul WS Anderson movies have nothing to do with them, a conscious effort on their part when they started the series.

[@melvinfrooks]

I still prefer Milla's non-canon version. This film was trash.

[@DeltaAssaultGaming]

What the hell. Jill Valentine isn’t black.

[@HappyCynic]

And Leon ain't Indian.

[@TheBeird]

I think the moment to have a good adaptation of Resident Evil has long passed. Kaya Scodelario needs to fire her agent

[@zeramoke]

They should have just had Romero make the RE movie in the late 1990s, he had a script written that was loyal to the original Resident Evil game in the mansion. The story is all there the plot, characters, monsters everything just needs someone to make a set of movies based on the games. 1, 2 and 3 its all there and somehow they can't get this right.

[@Johny40Se7en]

This has to be the most... forgiving review I've seen so far of this stinker. Quite refreshing, cheers again Ollie. But it's such a wasted opportunity again aye. They could have done ANYTHING they wanted with this film, but they screwed it up so bad. What's so bloody hard about sticking to source material which is ALREADY THERE for you to use. Like they say "the wrong people are in the jobs where it matters". Just give the source material to good writers, directors and casting crews. It ain't hard. Hollywood has got a shit load to bounce back from. You know, they say that one definition of insanity, is repeating the same crap and expecting different results. Well then Hollywood is bat shit crazy! 😅😝🥴

[@empressnitara1333]

Not sure what movie you watched, but I don’t at all agree with you. People gotta be nuts if they think it’s possible to incorporate 10+ hours of gameplay into a 2 hour or under film. That is in no way realistic or logical. Many elements of games would never transfer well onto film. I don’t want to come see constant backtracking and revisiting the same rooms in the mansion or police station. That would become stale and boring. I don’t want a detective story like Clue with zombies and coming across documents and reading constantly. Do you people even think before you type and speak out? You have any idea how much screen time that adds up to and takes, and how it interferes with PACING in a film? You’d be surprised. The boarding house residence wouldn’t work on film. It’s not an interesting enough setting. This movie did everything absolutely right. I had an absolute blast. Saw it twice and loved it even more the 2nd time. They took all the scenes from the first 2 games which would work well cinematically and created an amazing horror tone. This movie was more horror than Halloween 2018 and Halloween kills with very minimal humor. Sure Leon and Jill could have looked more like the game, but that’s so superficial it doesn’t ruin the movie for me. Admittedly I don’t get why they didn’t just let Leon’s actor keep his real life normal blonde hair, but regardless I still got everything I came for and loved it. Only thing I’d have done differently was have included at least 1 hunter and have had it kill Richard since we weren’t getting a snake instead of zombies. Next best reptile. I also think they could have at least shown kenpo gunshop for Claire to find weapons. But that isn’t their fault. It was the budget. Movie was awesome. This fanbase has unreasonable expectations and can’t appreciate something good and fun if it smacked them across the forehead. The music score even reminded me of the Amityville horror main titles score from the 70s.

[@2shoes2socks82]

They destroyed the character of Leon and made a drinking game out of the f word so I’d rate this movie as a beautiful mess

[@myenemysenemy1043]

The series Arklay sounded like it had some promise. I wish they'd pursued with that.

[@jwnj9716]

Combining the first 2 games was a bad idea. Just focus on the mansion.

[@markz_editz2280]

Combining the 2 kinda works if they have more runtime than one hour is suppose to be 2 hours 45 mins that would work make charcater good make thw story aint rush

[@Whalewraith]

It was than that, really it was the first 3 games as we jumped straight to RC getting blown up.

[@kenziej5150]

Yeah I got a little confused, overall the movie somewhat held it together, I haven’t played remake 2 or 3 so my memory of the original games was fuzzy

[@justinriley]

I walked out saying something I never thought I would: I miss Milla Jovovich.

[@killik2099]

You can not be serious

[@justinriley]

@@killik2099 I am.

[@pizzathehutt1812]

Now now, there’s no need to get hysterical and saying nonsense like that my friend 😂

[@jack02krauser]

Man you went EASY with this barf of a script.

[@Klonoa7H]

Any plans to review Last Night in Soho? Seems the only newer films you cover tend to be franchise stuff

[@huxleyable]

If anyone finds it strange that they seem to be rushing to Code Veronica. From what I have heard, the director is a big fan of Claire. So to me it looks like the guy wants to get to his favorite game in the series

[@jenniferstevenson7180]

It's more than obvious Roberts is a big Claire fan. He tried to make her the Alice of his reimagined RE. She's there to outdo everyone, especially rookie cop Leon. God forbid we should have a new 21st century film that shows both men and women as being equally competent and intelligent. Gotta make the guys weak to make the women look strong.

[@spaceodds1985]

I was surprised that this was released. There was no marketing for this

[@SkyFly19853]

They should also have focused on a single game one at time. You can NOT put the story of two games on a single movie...

[@drromanov5155]

This kind of went the Mortal Kombat movie way, lots of Hope who got p....sed all over it by not caring in the casting and story choice. CowBoy Bebop and this should serve as a learning Point for all does adaptation from here on.

[@ethanahern]

I knew that this was gonna be a bad film ever since I saw the advertising.

[@megashillyshally]

The highlights: -Sets -Tension -Sound design -Chris -Sunglasses at night getting a justification

[@brettcooper3893]

I think it was a major miscalculation for them not to release the film on digital for purchase simultaneously. I wouldn't go to the theater to see this, but I already own all 7 other films on digital and will be purchasing this, but as of now it's only available for rent at a whopping $20 US.

[@Seiferboi]

They should've done what they did for the original games, especially RE2 and RE3, where they take place the same night, but focus on different characters, with a little bit of a glimpse of the other character from the other game. I think it's RE3 where you can see Leon running around in the background at one point, while you control Jill.

[@dfailsthemost]

I'm betting they were betting they won't get to make a sequel

[@damienhughes377]

Great Review mate as always

[@sumpmiffot]

I really wish they'd gone ahead with that Arklay tv series. It seemed like a more interesting take on the RE series than anything else that has come out.

[@joetartaglia5662]

Great review! Definitely not a great movie but entertaining enough

[@TheRedneckPreppy]

Parts of this were filmed in my hometown up here in northern Ontario, Canada. I apologize for whatever we contributed to this garbage.

[@SkyFly19853]

It's NOT your fault... It's the fault of studios and Hollywood...

[@salliewagenblatt5188]

The race swapping of leon Kennedy and jill valentine was there first big mistake and turning leon into a MR BEAN like character was one of the nails in the coffin for this terrible film.

[@YellowTissueBox]

always great content oliver thankyou :)

[@killik2099]

Too many characters crammed in there . Unnecessary orphan backstory . Wesker actor should have been Chris or even leon. Sherry birkin looked too much like young Claire. Took too long to get rolling then ended in about 2 minutes

[@mkproductions2.0]

I think this was under rated however the treatment towards Leon character could of been better overall I loved it thought at was better than the mess that was Paul W Anderson films. I feel some fans complain about this one too much it is done of the better live action ones out of all of them.

[@adamwatson2914]

I thought it was god damn awful and shockingly lazy and lame as all fffffuuu!! You have ten plus years of mediocre resident evil movies to go on and see what people like and what they don’t like and they actually put something out that’s still not as good or entertaining as the original resident evil movie, lol so ridiculous! Big disappointment for me

[@AttyMonroe]

3:15 I thought that was little Alex Horne for a second. That would have made the movie even better. 😄

[@stoicvampirepig6063]

Why should it get a sequel? It needs to make money to do that.

[@gnarkillx360x]

its a dumpster fire of a movie......

[@joeshittheragman6252]

A lot of the sets are from my hometown. What an appropriate town to fm an apocalyptic movie

[@Joe_Kerr_9797]

Combining two games into one movie was a big mistake, I don't understand why is it hard to make it like the games, It doesn't have to be 100% accurate, I wouldn't mind if they made small changes but still keep true to the games.

[@cbandit7715]

please, its ok if these charchters are different than the videogames. it is just an adaptation and the creator should be able to make creative decisions. this is their charchter and i think the actors did do a good job. this movie was meant to be lke an old carpenter 70-90s horror movie. that explains the dialogue. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZqzh4KnfM-drKM . this videoexplains it perfectly. this movie is an underated gem. it may look like a fanfilm because the director cannot control the budget. the studio controls that. that is not a valid criticism of the movie because that is not the quality. the director has a passion for re and there are many detials and i can tell this movie had care put into it. good cinemetography, good score, good easter eggs for the fans. it feels like an re game. this is its own story with different takes than the game and thats fine. just appreciate it for what it is rather than what you want it to be. and trust me, this movie was emant to have a seqel, leon is having a chachter arc over multple movies ( supposed to be made but probably not after the success of this movie). this was made by a fan just wantin a good re movie. i love it and was my favorite movie experiance of the year. cgi is also a part of budget. lets be hoenst, whats jills personality, you dont know, the directors had very little to work with so to adapt re charchters to the big scree you esentially have to write new perosnalities for a lot of them and if they kept a lot of the original personalitlites form the game people would complain about dry charachters even more. and please, dialogue bad, have you played re, this is also a carpenter movie trait. i loved the pacing in this movie (at the beggining and middle) probably the most out of anything, it has a greta buildup, captivates you, some nice horror sequences, but does get a littl rushed at the end but low budget. it felt like an re game. the cheif literly picked up the gun, and i was like, oh the annoying 6 mag, i counted the rounds shot and was like oh no hes out of ammo, sure enough next time he shot, click, out of ammo. could have been more police station but hey, budget. if feel as if id they used only one game, it would just be a carbonc copy of the game and boring, as weve already played it. and f word complaint, have you played as claire in rewmake? i feel this is a nice little movie and is a t least a solid b tier (trying to be a b tier horror movie). i would say A-. this just has too much passion to be called bland or uninspired and i will not stand for it. i

[@MrJuke79]

I think they nailed the b movie feel of resident evil 1 and 2 Full of cheese. I also feel like the director took a lot of inspiration from John carpenter

[@maxtubb]

I always like it when video games were its own medium and not shoehorned in a movie or TV shows.

[@daniel7767]

mexican leon is the biggest blunder of the film.

[@061romell]

They have failed TWICE at establishing this franchise on film. Just play the damn games!

[@jacobsoper4708]

They didn't fail the first time. The 6 RE movies are literally the most popular zombie films in history, and are the most successful videogame-based movie series, and are also among the most successful R rated horror films, rivaling IPs like Alien. They achieved this by using the games as a reference but telling an original story that audiences who don't like the games would click with. The videogames do not translate well to film, with poor writing and very thin characters. And none of the characters really make for a compelling protag that film audiences will come back again and again for. That's why Alice was created. That's why Jack Sparrow was created in the Pirates movies.

[@virgogaming6488]

@@jacobsoper4708 I agree, none of the characters from the games could carry a film. They're all super boring and have no charisma. As the players we project ourselves onto them so it's why we care.

[@061romell]

@@jacobsoper4708 I agree the previous series was consistent financially successful, that's why they got 6 films in two decades with not much interruption, that's admirable. I do think characters like Leon and maybe Jill could have pulled off a good film instead of superhuman Alice, the first 2 were the best imo. I like your point on Jack sparrow however Alice couldve been Jill or Claire minus the super powers lol.

[@kamdan2011]

Damn shame that everyone is trying to emulate the Marvel Studios style to franchises like these where it’s not appropriate. Could have a solid horror themed series of films out of these already cinematic driven video games.

[@Pewpewpew182]

This film isn’t terrible, it just exist. Too bad most people didn’t watch it. The race swapping may have been a turned off for some fans of the franchise.

[@schizzo8959]

If you do this, do it for everyone.

[@HappyCynic]

No, it's terrible.

[@MisterTutor2010]

Wesker is a graduate of the Umbrella Academy :)

[@owensreviews625]

I really wanted this film to be good, but it’s such a shame that it wasn’t.

[@Aerosplinter]

Couldn't we have Chris Pratt as Barry Burton? Seriously, he would fit well in this movie with the one liners from 1!

[@jinderbreadman]

I thought that dude was Carlos, until you pointed out that it's Leon. Somehow, it looks more faithful than the Anderson movies though.

[@alexduran1967]

Combing 1 and 2 makes absolutely no sense. If you're going to combine two films, it would be 2 and 3. Even then, both have enough story for their own films. I don't understand why RE is so tough to adapt. The game is literally the script for each film.

[@bettiebundy]

The Movie is a solid B. Do I think they should have made it a two part like the movie "it." Yes. one part focus on the mansion and the other the city. I dont believe they wasted large part of the budget on the music that was not needed. do I understand the haste for the look of jill. yes, however that was only minor. The look of jill was not a problem to me because Im sure if their was a sequel they would have evolved jill just as they did with Wesker in the end.

[@jacobottesen5279]

Haven't seen the movie, but I think it's telling that the only live-action Resident Evil that didn't disappoint people was the 12 minute proof-of-concept "Arklay" short.

[@adambomb138]

Everyone talking about what "THEY" should have done. I'm over here saying get a team of people together and do it yourself. That's how it goes. If you all know so much better, get out there and do it better than these guys! I would watch it. I was happy overall with this movie. Sure it had super weak spots and silly parts, but it was fine. Maybe the next one will be bigger and better, who knows. But I supported it and hope for another one.

[@corbindalis]

The female lead is terrible. One of the worst acting jobs I've ever seen

[@tomorrowwestport2620]

Should have gone with Romero back in the day. His first draft script isn’t amazing but it’s better than everything we have got since 2002. Afew tweaks and it would have been a masterpiece on par with dawn of the dead 78

[@Hugo_Tate]

this movie is the equivalent of the original Basement song from RE

[@lovejoy1311]

I think it’s really a weird place to go. Res 5 is still the biggest seller of the lot, but that fits in way more with the prior movies as action/adventure. If you want survival horror, 7&8 (esp 7) are the best, though 7 would be a hard R and make no sense to fans of the prior movies. Even with the remakes, the first 2 rely heavily on garbage that comes later in the series for lore and backstory. That’s just the nature of the limitations of the games of the era. But, by burning out 1 & 2 right away, all you have left is nemesis before it gets real stupid for a long, long time…

[@danjab64]

It was trash.

[@SkyFly19853]

Another fail attempt from those studios that do NOT know what they are doing... There are even 6 major novels on Resident Evil which can be used for making those movies...

[@ed_carnby3431]

Awesome review. I really liked the film, I'm okay with changes in character. I like Leon from the games and it was messy with this movie, but it worked for the movie. The biggest disappointment was as you said and everyone saying just having the mansion story. I've seen the film a couple of times and still like it. I hope for a sequel. It made its budget back, but who knows. I for one am not interested in that netflix series that seems to go with having title of the games, but not the story.

[@chunkymilk]

didn’t even know this came out.

[@anakinchosen]

Average 50 yard line horror movie 🍿 it didn’t suck but it wasn’t great either.Nice to see Kaya play the memorable character of Claire Redfield.

[@thermonuclearcollider4418]

4:23 I think they combined the first two games because of how popular the remake of RE2 is - that's what they wanted to use to lure people (at one point, before WTRC was announced, there were talks of adapting RE7, which would've been pretty weird, since, if you remove the gaming part, it has nothing to do with what people perceive as "Resident Evil"). But you cannot have RE2 if you don't do RE1 as well, so they had to squeeze that one in as well since they couldn't ride the still-running RE2make hype train by just adapting the first game. Personally, I think it would've worked better hadn't they spent about 30 minutes setting up characters they didn't even use properly and then rushing in the rest.

[@Kaboose666]

It is honestly a good thing they combine RE1 and RE2. Resident Evil 2 might have enough story to carry a movie, but the RE1 surely does not. The first game has its main focus, most likely 90% of it, be in the gameplay and puzzles. The story is paper thin. It might work as a short film, but not much else. I personally loved this film and hope we get another one. Sure it is different, but that doesn't make it bad.

[@thermonuclearcollider4418]

@@Kaboose666 Hey, I totally agree with you here: it's next-to-impossible to properly adapt RE1 because it only works as a game and the plot isn't even that thick - what you can film at least (most of it is told via files you pick up as you go through). RE2 has similar problems as well when you really think about it, even though the fact the two main characters' stories are actually happening at the same time (unlike RE1, where Chris' story voids Jill's and viceversa) does put a bit more fat on it. I was fine with the idea of splicing the two games together. I just don't think the movie did it right and, while I didn't hate it, I walked out of the cinema thinking it was yet another missed opportunity. They also didn't put enough money into it, which is something you cannot blame the director for (he actually did a good job at trying to make a horror movie with what he had - he might not be a good writer, but he knows how to put a movie together).

[@WuTang36Styles]

Jill Valentine in this movie :)))))) === caricature ,, ,,, ,, fail is the best option for this movie ...

[@KabaL970]

If you set your expectations correct, the movie is not bad. I genuinely had fun during the screening.

[@A_YouTube_Commenter]

But I could still see a better movie in it. I get what you mean, I had fun as well but it could have been great if they dropped a few things.

[@RedWolf777SG]

They criminally did the character of Leon S. Kennedy dirty in this train wreck of a movie. It was cringe worthy as all hell. LoL!🤣😓😕

[@Whalewraith]

If they had made Leon cool 😎 it might have worked. This was the guy in RE lore that took on an entire pack of lickers with his knife. In this thing he couldn't work his shotgun.

[@TrenchMan93]

I feel the movie was fun. It had its flaws, but you are right for them not focusing on part 1, i doubt there will be a sequel since its flopping hard which makes me sad.

[@HappyCynic]

It makes me happy, if I'm honest.

[@TrenchMan93]

@@HappyCynic yuppers.

[@MartyMcFly88]

This movie is great I don’t understand all the hate for it

[@chrish2755]

I liked this film it was cool

[@FirstnameLastname-qc3xx]

I know it’s not good but I want to see it anyway just to be in the RE world.

[@SaberRexZealot]

Anyone else surprised that a Resident Evil movie is shit? They had such a good track record up until this point.

[@falsealias2046]

Do you remember that scene from resident evil Apocalypse when the UBCS and the police were shooting at zombies at street checkpoints and getting overrun? That scene was more like the Raccoon outbreak than anything in this steaming pile of a movie?

[@omisan771]

The only good thing about this movie is how pretty the actress playing Claire is.

[@AC-LING666]

To be honest i've never seen any of the Resident Evils movies at all , the last Resident Evil game i played was Code Veronica on the Dreamcast i played Resident Evil 1 , 2 and 3 on the Ps1 in the 90s as a teenager and loved all of them , so i was very happy watching this Film in Cineworld's 4DX seeing that it was based on RE1 n RE2 . I thought i was gonna go into this and not know anything the characters , stories etc. Because there's been so many RE games and films since Code Veronica I liked the film except for Leon , it pissed me off how stupid they made him act in the movie and casting some1 that looks nothing like Leon wtf were they thinking The chief policeman looks much closer to Leon and watching Claire on screen throughout the whole time😍 😍 😍 😍 😍 anyway i really enjoyed the Film .

[@angrycandy5441]

Hello, we'd like to cast you as leon. But I in no way resemble leon. Oh yes, you are right. Never mind, we will find someone who does instead. Thanks for your input.

[@doric_historic]

If it ain't got extreme amounts of zombies eating people and people shooting zombies whilst reloading all within mostly one location, it aint a Resident Evil movie...