This movie was better than I expected it to be. The Resident Evil game franchise has jumped the shark more than once with games like Resident Evil 4, 5 and 6 and while the new first person RE games are good on their on, they simply stretched to far away what I consider to be Resident Evil.
Anyway, back to the movie. The positives first, the characters. I always loved the series for its characters. Chris, Jill, Leon, Claire, Rebecca etc. Are all just amazing and having them all in one movie is great. The villains motivations bring us back to 1998 in Raccoon City which is a nice call back. He himself isn't anything special compared to the likes of Wesker or Alexia and his plans are kinda over the top but whatever.
Speaking about over the top. The action isn't as over the top as in RE Vendetta, thanks god, but I would have still prefered it to be more grounded in reality with more normal human like protagonists or characters for that matter. A certain character from the previous movie returns and they make this movie go more over the top than it should have been. RE should focus more on horror than action after all but Capcom again tries to please anyone I guess.
I enjoyed this movie overall but RE hasn't been great since Code Veronica and should have ended a long time ago, but I guess someone has to milk their cash cow.
7/10 infected moaning zombies.
Anyway, back to the movie. The positives first, the characters. I always loved the series for its characters. Chris, Jill, Leon, Claire, Rebecca etc. Are all just amazing and having them all in one movie is great. The villains motivations bring us back to 1998 in Raccoon City which is a nice call back. He himself isn't anything special compared to the likes of Wesker or Alexia and his plans are kinda over the top but whatever.
Speaking about over the top. The action isn't as over the top as in RE Vendetta, thanks god, but I would have still prefered it to be more grounded in reality with more normal human like protagonists or characters for that matter. A certain character from the previous movie returns and they make this movie go more over the top than it should have been. RE should focus more on horror than action after all but Capcom again tries to please anyone I guess.
I enjoyed this movie overall but RE hasn't been great since Code Veronica and should have ended a long time ago, but I guess someone has to milk their cash cow.
7/10 infected moaning zombies.