
Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City
2.5
(860)
Action
Horror
Science Fiction
2021
107 min
R
Once the booming home of pharmaceutical giant Umbrella Corporation, Raccoon City is now a dying Midwestern town. The company’s exodus left the city a wasteland…with great evil brewing below the surface. When that evil is unleashed, the townspeople are forever…changed…and a small group of survivors must work together to uncover the truth behind Umbrella and make it through the night.
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"⭐⭐/5 (Didn't Like It) Soooo...this movie is not that bad. It's not great, but not bad. It has a few good things about it. A few diamond specs amongst the crap, so to speak, but...there is SO MUCH CRAP that drags this movie down. Oh my God!
Good things include: the production design, the atmosphere, certain creature designs and the zombies. Specifically the latter, I really enjoyed how when people became zombies they didn't immediately go into a frenzy, but slowly lost their humanity until they were crazed flesh eating monsters. It was a small thing, but was done well. The bad stuff however: Miscastings all around, an atrocious script, bad CGI blood, the mistreatment of Leon Kennedy, bad editing, etc. I think for how small of a budget this movie has they did a decent job of an adaptation, but when it comes to all the poor adaptations Resident Evil HAS HAD SO FAR, you kind of wish they just used the money from this movie to make something better."
"Disclaimer, I love all the cheesy Resident Evil movies with Milla Jovovich for what they are - campy good fun. I'm not hard to please! But this is definitely my favorite of all the Resident Evil movies that I've seen (I haven't seen any of the animated ones). It feels actually connected to RE 2 and 3 but you don't need to have played the games to enjoy it. Like I always say about movie adaptations of other media, I think it's best to enjoy it as it's own separate thing anyway (that's why I can enjoy the Resident Evil movies all so much, I don't feel the need to compare them to the games!) The characterization of characters like Leon and Claire feels a bit off and I know that frustrated a lot of people, so it seems best to just think of these as new characters with the same names.
I think this was a good, fun, and kinda freaky movie! There were a lot of scenes that were genuinely creepy with some well shot spooky moments (the first scene with the girl watching from the woods, the scene under the table as he keeps flicking on his lighter in the dark, and the scene with the "Itchy Tasty" zombie and jumping through the glass door all being examples of this for me). They did a really good job in the mansion, too, with unique camera angles that were reminiscent of the game and gave you that same closed-in, claustrophic feeling and the creepy vibe that you can't see everything that is in the room with you and they can come from anywhere.
Anywho, this was fun! Not much more to say!"
"Honestly not too bad for a different spin on the first two games. "
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Celaena Wolf