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RESIDENT EVIL: Welcome to Raccoon City EXPLAINED
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- Welcome to Raccoon City, once the booming home of pharmaceutical giant Umbrella Corp. The company's exodus left the city a wasteland, a dying town with great evil brewing below the surface. When that evil is unleashed, a group of survivors must work together to uncover the truth behind Umbrella and make it through the night.
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I didn't really understand Chris Redfield's rant about continuing his bloodline? He seemed really invested in that goal.
How hard could it be to make good Resident Evil movie series.
Can you remember when footage leaked online of an RE television series which I believe was gonna be called "Arklay"..?
I can't believe no network ever picked it up?! The story seemed sound and even though the main protagonist was going to be a non-canon RPD detective, it was still going to include many of the characters from the original trilogy.
What a wasted opportunity...
@@residentelect I agree
It’s called “I WANT MY OWN TAKE ON THE LORE AND I WONT TAKE NO AS A ANSWER!”
Answer: very hard for noobs.
S.D. Perry books should be incorporated for source material.
@@johnrandolph1989 those novels were freaking great
What’s crazy is that I’ve completely forgot this movie despite it coming out two months ago
It reminds me of a TV movie on syfy
Not gonna lie, the old resident evil 1 from the 2000’s was actually one of the best zombie movies in my opinion. It still holds up. They should just remake that one since Hollywood so inept
Have to agree kind of, the first resident evil movie is not that bad and it holds up, I personally also like re2 as well but extinction is where it all went bad.
Resident evil 1 & Resident evil apocalypse are my favorite ones.
After that it kind of falls apart with the global outbreak
Please no I don't want Alice anywhere near resi this reboot was exactly what was needed.
The first movie is in my top 10 favorite movies
I don't really give a shit about zombies untill I watched resident evil extinction, i was hooked man it's really that good of a movie and directed in a way no other movie was in past , i love that old series i don't know what this movie is doing
The sets were undersized and made the actors look way too big. Characters were written terribly. They gave Claire all of Jill's characterization and added some new elements that did not mesh. Turned Leon into a dunce, Jill into a lovesick girlfriend, Wesker into a patsy instead of the antagonist and Chris into a clueless dummy. Hope there's no sequel cause the movie was horrible
Jill was just a straight up sociopath. lol Nothing in this film was respectful or accurate.
atleast they tried
..smh
"Written terribly"
Well... then it's faithful to the original games I guess.
!! thank you. This was the best, so far. You hit every single thing major point!!
@@Genjitsu17 I think the characters looks were accurate which was refreshing to see but kind of weird because all we have seen live action wise was Alice
Imagine struggling with a shotgun but being able to load and operate a fecken rpg lmao
lmao
To be fair he was a rookie and he swam instead of sinking after being saved by Claire
They should have gotten the same actor to reprise his role as Albert Wesker.
Yes
Should have gotten the actors from Paul A. movies in general.
@@peste2574 Would probably be too expensive.
Although overall quality would have been better.
@@peste2574 i agree, the albert wesker in Paul's looks like the original also ada,leon,barry and jill .. but they ficked up on chris, resident evil welcome to racoon city's albert wesker looks like chris ..
agreed
Imagine some of your favorite foods, now imagine what happens when someone shoves your favorite foods into a blender so you can drink it all together. (gross right?)
That's what this monstrosity of a beloved games series is reduced to an hour and a half film.
Well said. 😌 Respect.
I don’t know about Leon. Yeah he’s suppose to be a rookie out of his element, but in the movie he’s just seen as completely inept and incompetant as a cop. Whether it be falling asleep at the desk or fidling around with the keys, Leon in this movie wasn’t that well done.
Also Lisa Trevor doing that Black Widow fight was just hilarious lmao
Thank the lord someone said this I felt the same like I didn’t mind the actor but the scenes and the way they portrayed Leon was nuts to me 😓👎🏾
You hit the nail on the head.
I got only about 20min in this film, the scene when all the cops are in the office and making fun of Leon and laughing at him and he's just standing there taking "yea, I'm stupid".
I just got up and left.
And the leon was an indian guy to this movie lol funny kind of movie what a waste
What happen to leon why they pick leon to be an indian guy damm you people wht is wrong in your mind you dstrying the world of resident evil
Damm who made this movie this is the most worst resident evil movie i ever scine the leon is an indian guys that act like stupid jill is so defrnt very bad movie very very bad, just watch only few mnts and im done this movie will be not good until end lol trash trash trash
Cramming too much into one movie seems to be a common problem, especially with movies based on games. You can't condense 80 hours of game play filled with little bits of lore and every character into a 90 minutes.
This is why covering an entire game in one movie just doesn't work. Imagine trying to take Fallout: New Vegas and fit it into a movie, it just won't work. You could maybe get away with a movie about growing up in an experimental vault and escaping in the wastelands at the end, but nothing more than that.
Cramming 3 games into one was probably taking it a bit too far tbh.
To be fair, the RE games have way less content than Fallout: New Vegas. A Fallout adaptation (or realistically, any RPG or game that includes a ton of exploration) would more likely need to be a series (or miniseries) with double-digit hours of content to come close.
RE though? Where are you getting 80 hours of content out of RE? Unless the newer games have gone full Assassin's Creed / Grand Theft Auto with hundreds of sidequests and stuff, the ones this movie were based on wouldn't even break double digits (unless you count dying to something and reloading the save to try again "more content".
@@mstieler8480 but with lore, it’s also stopping and reading and also exploring all the small details of the game, not just running through shooting
They could have easily done the first game from one characters perspective in 90 minutes. 120 if they wanted to do both Chris and Jill.
@@aaronpop0083 you can finish one in 90 minutes, it could easily be done scene for scene
Thanks for reminding me that this monstrosity exists
It's not that bad. It understood the source material. Its greatest crime is that its too faithful, trying to cram too much into one film
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I must admit, even though I've just meme'd on it being terrible, it did bring back some nostalgia vibes from those days as a teenager playing the first three games on my PS1, lights off and nervously awaiting the next jump scare. I never got that from the Alice RE movies.
@@filmcomicsexplained this movie has a lot of issues to be honest. There's too many characters so there's no character development, the writing is bad, the story makes no sense, plot lines that start but go nowhere, there's bad acting, Leon is very incompetent compared to his counterpart in the game, and cinematography isn't that great. This should have focused on the mansion incident alone. Before anyone says it wouldn't work as a movie I would like to remind them of other escape films such as: The Descent, Escape Room, The Cube, The Cave, Saw 1 & 2, and etc.
I didn't know until today it was a thing. :P
Leon struggled loading a shotgun but all of a sudden he knew how to operate an RPG?
Looks at the Alice saga
"Perhaps I treated you too harshly"
Those movies are still worse
you forgot to mention the most important part! The shooting is done " resident evil' style, where they dont walk while shooting. they got that feeling the same in the movie as it is in the games.
That Lisa Trevor doesn't make any sense in this movie. She can leave any time but she stays in the orphanage. Not even mentioning she keeps looking for her mother.
Not only that but in 1998 Lisa is supposed to be in her mid 40s
I like the movie overall but what really killed me enjoying it a lot more was how they portrayed Leon. Yeah he's a rookie but I got the feeling he was shown more as incompetent. Like he may be new but he was still able to think quickly on his feet and adapt to the changing situation. You don't really see that in the movie.
Leon was acting like someone playing RE2 blind for the very first time
Leon may be a rookie but he's the top of his class. Him being a rookie is just a gag but he's a very competent guy in his own right.
@@1wayroad935 im pretty sure a Blind RE player can at least kill 2 zombies... the dude only got ONE zombie kill in the whole movie... and then the rocket launcher at the end
@@1wayroad935 Leon was acting like someone unbeknownst to Survival horror genre and RE1996 all together, put in a situation of RE2 xD. They started freaking out hearing sound, jumpscares, item management, lost and confusion.
Although I enjoy some part of WtRc, I do think certain stuff was terrible. But should get a sequel imo, if those RE Alice garbage gets tons of sequel, this one should have one too, room for improvement.
He started to develop close to the end imo I was annoyed in the beginning but realistically no one is gonna be a bad ass right out the gate but if there’s gonna be a 2nd movie they definitely better up the anty with him for sure
Oh god damn I've been waiting for this, I love your takes on the RE movies.
At the end of the film I just had one thought in my head "Does this mean Nemesis won't make an appearance if they make a sequel???" Since they blew up the lab and the city I can't see Nemesis being a thing and that really makes me nervous. Even the Anderson movies had him, I can't see the franchise succeeding without one of its main figure heads y'know
@The Baddestman there actually in talks into making a sequel as we speak
This movie ruined any chance of a Resident Evil 3 Nemesis movie in our lifetime. Hell Resident Evil Apocalypse was more faithful than this trainwreck.
Loved it even if it wasn't perfect, better than the other versions
You loved it? I'd believe you not hating it but to love this...you must have bad taste
@@felixramirez4402 if people liked this movie then let them. I enjoyed this movie myself way better than Paul Andersons shitty ass Resident Evil movies
@@scottwarnick5126 but this is as shitty if not worse
I'm still upset that they completely massacred Leon's appearance. Like come on, he's one of the most recognised protagonists in gaming history, why would you not have him look exactly like he does in the games?
Hung up on looks huh? Shallow and childish.
I agree the guy they used for Leon would have been a better fit for Carlos
Thought the same. Now they got a Black Albert Wesker and a lesbo Marcus, lol I can't. They're going woke and trying to recolor everything to fit the modern image for "multiculture" because it's okay as long as it's against white people.
Man should make an Obama movie starred by Christian Bale.
Because Leon's white and Hollywood lefties are oblivious to their own racism.
@@jesusthugmusic The character has a predetermined design that has been around for decades. Tell me what is so childish and shallow about fans wanting an accurate depiction of a beloved character.
Lol u make the movie sound better then it actually is, it felt like it was a comedy but your retelling makes it seem a lot darker love it
I've seen Kaya Scodelario do non-maze runner action before and I think she is pretty solid at it
I love that it kinda served as a prequel to the RE franchise with Alice, and also very nostalgic since it recreated and based from the first 2 RE games... at least we know about wesker's past, and not some dude who just pop out of nowhere. His background was not thoroughly discussed nor touched for a bit on the other franchise.
Wesker didn’t have his Jonny Bravo look either
This movie is awesome my favorite quote is " wtf Leon!!"
Tell me I'm not the only one who thought the actor who is portrayed Leon character was supposed to be Carlos Oliveira?
Chris fighting his way through the mansion is my favorite part of the film. Im literally going to purchase the film just for that scene. Being a huge RE fan, the rooms, places, areas were all pretty accurate. Love the RE lore.
If you’re a huge fan then the fact that they changed the characters they way they did should piss you off beyond reason. If pretty set pieces won you over with this then you should reevaluate your fan status.
You're not an RE fan.
I just watched this yesterday! Right in time for this video.
Your probably wondering how I am a cop. I'm wondering that to.
I don’t understand how you can say it at any point that this was a faithful adaptation… Just because they threw in sets and scenes out of the video games because well it’s called resident evil… They completely butchered the entire narrative. This is one jumbled up pot roast of a mess. Resident evil was the very first video game that got me into video games as a kid-1996 I was 9.This franchise needs a faithful adaptation. A gritty suspense sci-fi horror thriller with bits of high intensity action -Make it close quarters and make it brutal fight for survival
I've played every game in the franchise, except gaiden... I love this franchise, the survival horror it's great, the atmosphere, the characters, the music... you know all that and more stuff makes people love the franchise...
But If you really "played the originals", you'll know they were basically a B horror movie... with terrible dialogue.
And this is movie is basically that... It doesn't capture the feeling of the remakes, but it does capture the chessyness of the originals, and all that campy glory with some decent horror scenes and gore.
@@thespinelizard4444 That’s what pisses me off most. It’s like they read every bit of lore and knew every bit of lore and then purposely Flipped shit-made shit that made no sense with characters like Leon being utter useless-Made a few random antiheroes..Lisa..made complete villains into redemption cases. Made the master of unlocking Claire? Just almost like a hey yeah we have all of the stuff that you guys love now watch us piss it away-You need to have higher standards..Yes resident evil was campy be stuff but if done right it can be something more.. They had this budget… They were making this film… They could’ve done the characters right and made a coherent story but instead I don’t know what they tried to do
@@thespinelizard4444 Also if I played the originals. I played the originals when I was a little kid. And every RE game made after-I remember reading the journals and being on the edge of my seat white knuckling my PlayStation controller. I don’t remember the campy bad writing or bad voice acting because I was a kid playing a scary as hell video game. You’re looking at it through the lens of now saying oh it’s so campy/shit writing..yeah we can say that now as adults. And maybe some of you played this as adults but those of us who experienced this for the first time when it came out was something new.And this atrocious ass movie doesn’t do it justice..
@@PracticalTacticalFedeli I don't get your point, if a kid saw this movie at the same age that you played the originals.. that kid would probably be traumatised for life, or even be intrigued by the world set up by the film leading it to play the games. And in that, becoming a fan of the games.
That's something that could not happen in milla's films, cause if you truly like the Paul Anderson movies... then the games are probably not for you.
I also played the originals when I was a kid... and I also didn't notice all the bad writing and acting...etc.
What I'm trying to say here it's that while not a "perfect film" or "adaptation", far from it actually, to be fair it captures that 90s/80s campy B horror vibe perfectly, and there's nothing that screams more "Resident Evil" to me... than that.
The Remakes of 1 and 2 are in a way how you saw the originals when you were a kid... they are the perfect adaptation in a weird way, expecially the Remake of 1, with all that sweet scary stuff, but this movie isn't that... this movie is Resident Evil in it's purest form since the beginning, *including all the bad stuff*
The way I see it, it's that you can debate if it's a "good film" or not... but there's something I know. And that's the fact that the people who made this... actually tried for the first time since 2002. And that's something I won't just put a blind eye to, just because Leon or Jill don't look or act the same way as in the original trilogy.
Cause in the end... Movies and Games are two different things.
@@PracticalTacticalFedeli When you say "Made shit that made no sense" you are forgetting that this is a MOVIE, not a game. If they copied every single characters personality exactly as it was in the games, then this movie would have been even worse, cause every character in the original trilogy were not intended to be put on film, cause they don't have "personalities" they have the minimum necessary to make them at least "Human" but not a "Character in a film", they would all feel the same way...
This is the opposite of when you are adapting a book...
While I cannot for the love of me defend the decision of putting RE1 AND RE2 in the same film, you can see that every change, was made because of that.
For example, Lisa it's now in the orphanage instead of the mansion, this makes sense with his character and helps to conect the presence of Umbrella in the City and all the atrocities they have done, in a simple and effective way, but it also means that Jill and Chris won't be able to meet her like in the games... meaning that you can't explain all the mansion lore trough her and it's family, so now you need to change stuff like Claire meeting Lisa Trevor when she was a kid, but there's no space to put in all the lore for her now, cause the film can not surpass a specific duration... so what do you do?
You put a single lame ass frame were it explains all the backstory for her in the games.
Again, what I'm trying to say it's that you can not adapt RE1 and RE2 faithfully in a single film... unless the film was 6 hours long.
Considering that, you can now see that all the important changes make sense... cause if they were more "faithful to the source material", that would mean it could not work as a film.
I understand that video games are hard to make into films. There were certain things about this movie that were faithful to the source... but it could have been so much better. I don't get why they couldn't have made this into two movies with better actors, CGI, etc etc.
Been looking forward to your analysis of this new resident evil movie also facts at 5:18 on Albert westker.
Hey, I love your content bro.
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Hey long time fan love the videos! Have you thought about covering the film Air?
This made the films at least acceptable.
The Han Solo of resident evil movies😆
I legit fell asleep in theatre and woke up as credits rolled and wasn't upset😅🤷
I haven't seen this yet. But with what I've been hearing so far, even with the creative changes, I'm glad we got this adaptation. As much as I enjoy the terrible movies that are the original live action series, it truly did not deserve the namesake
It's not the best nor is it the worst Resident Evil film. It just suffers from attempting to jam two much into two hours. Great action and set pieces, plenty of fan service, but god awful story flow.
Sure it Had some issues, but it was really nice to see them at least do something that resembles the main game and I quite enjoy it, and it was fun to see especially the fight scenes and the one in the mansion with Chris and his MP5 it was really amazing to see, and I did like Claire’s character the actress is quite great, she’s a badass and not a damsel, but I think she could’ve went looking for Chris and instead of looking at umbrella, maybe she wanted to mend fences instead, I do love Avan’s version of Leon and I do like how he’s out of his element compared to the more experienced members, especially Chris and the stars team
But they’re missing 2 key members, Barry and Rebecca chambers but I hope in the next installments we see them and maybe they left raccoon city long ago with the rest of the RCPD, and only heard about the explosion
I do wish we got to see more of Ada, maybe instead we could see her skulking around and watching around, observing the group and maybe her encounter with Leon has more of her teasing the rookie, especially since Lily Gao really nailed her movements and I wanted to see more
I agree with you, it certainly isn't a flawless film (some parts are not really well explained) but overall I enjoyed watching it. Personally I'll rate this 7/10. The filmmakers really kept to their words when they said this film is a like love letter to the games. Hopefully Sony greenlits a sequel for this because I'm really looking forward to seeing what they'll adapt next (Code Veronica? RE4?) And yes, Lily Gao did a fantastic portrayal of Ada despite having only less than 1 minute of screen time. Her facial expressions, movements, and even her voice was very faithful to Ada's (esp RE4 Ada). I'll need a sequel to happen just so that I can see more of her.
Barry was in the movie but I don't remember if they ever actually used his name in the movie or not. There is a scene when Wesker is talking to him about his family and about them being in trouble if Barry doesn't help Wesker with his plan, but the hole Barry helping Wesker lasts all of like 3 minutes before the shit hits the fan and Barry is back being a good guy again.
The thing with Leon is he's always been an adorable dunce with terrible interpersonal skills. But he has also always been a highly capable combatant, predominantly a naturally accurate marksman with side arms with some of the highest grades of the physical areas of policing skills.
He's good natured and trusting, which in combination with his high proficiency in shooting and physical policing, were enough to get him through police academy and onto the force.
It's sad that Wesker was relegated to being a hapless patsy but can still be an elaborate ruse on his part.
The true tragedy is the lack of Barry from the RE1 parts of the movie.
While it's nice to see Claire and Leon with their RE2 story elements I would have rathered they didn't butcher the timeline for it's inclusion.
Frankly, if they wanted a concurrent and cast related story arc to RE1 they should have adapted RE0's elements and included its cast.
Rebecca could be thought of as the little sister to most of the STARS team quite easily if they wanted to retain a similar interaction with Chris. Could even throw in a dream like hallucination of Claire that turns out to be Rebecca from Chris' perspective. Set up after he gets dazed from a hit and Rebecca arrives over him to assess his injuries.
Elude to, without strictly setting it up, but save the Claire/Leon for a potential sequel. Even have similar sequences for Jill's concurrent arc in RE3 to the above RE2 sequence.
It would have appealed to fans of the franchise that wanted a more faithful adaptation. It potentially could have even increased box office sales to increase the likelihood to secure a sequel. Which as I said could incorporated RE2 & RE3 elements in a single & faithfully accurate, concurrent arc.
Honestly wouldn't even have been mad if such a sequel picked up shortly after the events of the first hypothetical film adaptation of RE0 & RE1.
He'll even have the early elements of RE2, where none of the primary cast are present for, like Umbrella pulling out of Raccoon City and Burkin getting owned by Hunk and his team be a consequence of STARS wrecking the Arclay facility and Mansion thus be a feasible reason for setting the second film so soon (hours/days) after the first.
Honestly, all RE adaptations need more Hunk screen time. Literally an in franchise real life action movie protagonist.
Thanks for the video!! See you later!! Stay safe.😉
Saw this movie the other day and honestly, I hated it.
I'm watching from this movie and stop halfway due to boring characters and doesn't feel like resident evil. just like this video said, "long stories compact into one short movie" it would be best If this stories could make a series.
You should definitely have posters made of that portrait shown at the end of your videos with your trademark on it. I'm sure fans would totally buy that up.
This movie was just a parody, a movie to make us laugh that's all folks.
I usually agree with your takes on movies/games/etc but I have to pretty strongly disagree with this one lol. The movie felt like a parody of what we should've gotten and the movie itself felt like one giant flaw. With that said, the action sequence of Chris fighting in the dark at the mansion was the only scene that felt like it truly worked and gave us the spirit of the franchise.
Agree 100%, I couldn't put my finger on how I felt about the film (other than disliking it) but parody is perfect.
First time I've seen parody as a description.
I gotta day, I did find myself laughing alin at least 1/3 of the movie
The only thing like was how terrifying the infected looked and the licker wasn’t to bad, but I still kind of liked it.
There were things I didn’t like about the film but overall I really enjoyed it and hope there is another one
Doubt it will happen. I think the film lost money.
@@schoudh just because it lost money doesn't mean a thing. Other move have lost a ton of mo
@@schoudh other movies has lost a ton of money and they still made a sequel to there films
The Resident Evil we deserved.
But not the one we need right now...
... Because it's absolutely feckin terrible!!!
What sin did we commit to be given such a clusterfuck of cringe?
@@youtubestudiosucks978 simple.
Money!
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We had faith in Hollywood my friend... We should know by now that for every Dark Knight or No Way Home, there are a thousand Justice Leagues or Captain Marvels out there to disappoint us...
Will they make a part 2 or more? This was a great movie
I hope the studio picks up at least 2 more of these
I loved it.
* I agree with what was said about Wesker.
I was really hyped for this movie but also very skeptical, honestly wouldn't watch this movie again unless I got paid to do so.
This movie added every game for plot because they knew they are not getting a sequel.
That Cgi Tyrant was painful to watch. Not to mention Wesker.
Best resident exil movie ever I have sen is movie over 50 times
I'm glad that we have both this and the first one (maybe two or three? up until they started adding a ton of the game characters in) of the Anderson RE movies. The Anderson movies felt like a tangent of the RE games (it could be a story running parallel with RE 1, 2, and 3) while this felt like the games. Hitting some specific scenes / reveals felt good, and the little things that were added in, whether as background stuff or callouts (like "Jill sandwich") felt right to me.
Honestly, this would’ve worked so much better as a streaming service series. Have each season be one of the games to an extent with Easter eggs/plot pieces dropped in to later be picked up on down the line.
studios' logic; in case the critics claim it's a bad movie. That's go all out in making it a bad movie.
I think it would’ve been better to do it as a series
I think it is great..very dark..but folklore, mythology, supernatural and of course the kid actors should get medals for their acting
This movie makes me glad Paul Anderson's RE franchise exists cause idk wtf is going on and everything is so dark as well
I watched the show and I really enjoyed it. I do agree that they did try to fit too many things in it at once and wesker seamed out of place but understandably if you know the lore. I would have preferred him to be more cold hearted with great acting. Possibly seeing him smile and laugh with the other officers and then turn the corner to a serious face could of made for some cool and ominous shots. I also wish I could of seen some rivalry between him and everyone else showing that he was more out of place than your average cop.
I personally would recommend the movie to my friends and I enjoyed it overall.
good idea bad experience
Silent Hill is the best video game adaptation
Can you do a video explaining Dr Doom???? That would be awesome
I like all the animated Resident evil movies.
You need to reupload about this video. I just found out about the movie and watched it.
Tom hopper is like the perfect guy to be cast as a sympathetic character.
I think the director spent too much time on being dropping in Easter eggs instead of trying to make a cohesive story.
Honeslty I need movies to STOP forcing themselves into a 1.5 hour runtime and then expecting their to be decent worldbuilding or good storytelling. 90s films were long as all hell and people didn’t mind them.
Part of the reason why the original resident evil film, unfaithful as it was, worked with its condensed runtime is because the characters were trapped in a limited environment where only like four of them got any actual focus anyways and the story begins within the first twenty minutes. This movie had to focus on a ton of game characters and their lengthy backstories AND bring a whole town to life and it felt super rushed just because it started as a slow burn and then suddenly things just started happening like 40+ minutes into the film.
It could have definitely benefited from either an extra 20-50 minutes or, more realistically, focusing only on characters from RE1 like Chris, Jill, Wesker (as the main focus) and some other major characters to buff out the worldbuilding since they seem to be hoping for a franchise going forward.
Another suggestion I’d make is they should have even adapt RE0 as the main storyline or at least the first act with it leading into Rebecca kinda being the catalyst for the story to pick up into RE1 events in act two going onward and that introduce Chris, Jill, and Wesker into the story.
Introducing Chris, Jill, Wesker, Claire, Leon all at once as well as giving Birkin his story, the Lisa Trevor subplot, and the other assorted side characters just had to much to focus on. Cut down the cast (at least until later films), having the death and mayhem involve mainly redshirts, directly lift the movie plot from the game plots (minor tweaks here and there), and pad out the runtime so it’s closer to an older feature length film with a better pace.
Sorry this was long, was just really looking forward to this movie and while I appreciate the faithfulness, I’m disappointed a bit even though I enjoyed it
I saw this expecting to seriously hate it, but it actually wasn't all that bad. REALLY hated how Leon was portrayed, but it had some really fun moments.
As a huge series fan I enjoyed the movie. I didn't mind the weird characterizations. It fit more of an interpretation than direct translation. I have played through and beaten these games so many times and dumped so much time into them that I'm not interested in a beat for beat retread. Or even an "updated retelling". I can revisit the games for that. I have seen every scene and found every secret that at this point this is an ideal scenario. With that said it was far from perfect but serviceable for what it was.
First your knowledge and vigor for reviews is great. After the resident evil movies got so stale I stopped watching them it is nice to seem them try something new. Hope they keep trying to reboot the series.
I remember renting resident evil the game from blockbusters. I couldn't put it down all weekend and was gutted to return it
Lmaooo Leon looks like a nerdy kid cosplaying😂
I think this was the best resident evil, just reminded me the game resident evil 2
Whilst I did enjoy the PW Anderson films well enough, with the exception of the final film, this one felt way more in line with the old games than it's much bigger film brothers, was nice to actually see the Spencer mansion in a film despite them only being there for a short while.
Have you done a video on Mr Nobody? It’s a really interesting movie.
Yey
Tooooo much hugging in this movie.
Overall, not bad. The timeline is a little wonky, but as long as they keep it like this, I won't complain much.
I hope they make plenty of sequels so Chris can go boulder punching.
First review of this movie i mostly agree with.
Rather than a movie they should make this into tv series instead.
They try to squeeze two game adaptions into one movie in case a sequel isn’t green lit which in turn causes fans to be disappointed resulting in a sequel not being green lit.
No it wont be exciting for Avon to reprise Leon. The creators of this movie did Resident Evil such a diservice that it will be a while before anyone will want to touch this. The only thing that will probably be worse is the upcoming show that looks like something out of the CW.
I love your channel but I have to disagree with your take on this film. Some of the sets were pretty good but others were terrible. The lab, which was just a box, was seriously underused. One character you didn't mention much was Birkin and when he transformed it was laughable. Then started talking like a power rangers villain making fun of Chris for being an orphan lol. I have other gripes but you mentioned most of them.
Best resident evil movie they made so far my favorite of them all and the most like the game
I hate how they made Leon a complete idiot in this film
Grew up playing this game on ps1 such fond memories
The goofy guy from umbrells academy is Wesker? No thanks.
Wesker is cold, calculated.
5:45 Preach!
I didnt like it at first because i thought characters were weird, i didnt like how they put too many plits together and had odd choices in the script. But rewatching it, i really have come to appreciate and like it in spite of its flaws.
I didn’t think it was bad. I actually enjoyed it. You make a lot of points but ultimately way better than the other RE versions with Alice.
It’s seems he made Wesker more of a friend/partner and once he put the T virus’s he changed. And Leon obviously has to develop.
The set was spot on. People saying it was too small but considering it was a tight budget he made it work perfectly. I hope there’s a sequel
Yeah even though it wasn’t amazing, people are acting like videogame movies have to be exactly the same as the games and they can’t change the story at all. Definitely not perfect but better than the other Resident evil movies
I love that movie besides the short run time
They made leon look like an incompetent fool not a rookie
Didn't know this movie existed till I saw it in a Redbox
I agree with you, it is as you said
It wasn't really great, but it really wasn't bad either
I did enjoy Resident Evil:Welcome To Raccoon City
I think it’ll get a sequel. Yes some of the characterizations were a bit jank and they tried to fit too many games into one chronologically hazy 24 hour space, But there was enough meat on the bone to keep me interested. And they made way more of an effort to be as accurate to the games as they could, which i massively appreciated despite the movies flaw’s.
@@thejason755 I hope it gets a sequel too, there's room for improvement and fixing stuff ie Leon & Jill, bigger budget perhaps? Better CGI? More iconic monster from the series omg. Who doesn't wanna see that.
@@danskyl7279 i wasn’t entirely against leon’s “rookie”-characterization. I thought they played his inexperience too much for laughs instead of him evolving slowly into the leon we all know and love. Jill didn’t have enough to do in my opinion, and wesker could have been better had the actor played up how damn ruthless and sociopathic his character actually is supposed to be. Like i said, there were issues of direction that could have worked better in the end cut but i think it will do well enough to justify a sequel.
I'm standing here at what is left of Raccoon City after the government fired a missile at it!
Loved the movie. Thought it was really accurate on the zombiefication process in the lore.
@Something Something why? Do you not know what happens in the original t virus lore? It's a slow descent into madness. The whole itchy tasty is a nod to a journal written by a Umbrella groundskeeper in Resident Evil 1. Hey be ignorant though.
@The Baddestman yea, true. Fun backstreet boys meme though.
They looked like the vampires from 30 days of night … or I am legend . And I don’t know why they are able to write words in blood on windows . I thought they were supposed to be brain dead basically . Imo this film is offensive trash to someone who grew up on the games .
I thought this movie was gonna nail it in 2021! How fucking wrong I was. All that excitement wasted. I could watch some old Resident Evil movie instead of watching this.
The one amazing thing this movie that made me want to do is that it makes me want to dig my eyes out with a spoon second only to Zack Snyder's army of the dead
Umbrella is a synonym for Phizer and Johnson & Johnson
As far as packing too much in goes, it would be much worse the other way around. I still haven't seen all of The Hobbit "Trilogy".
Been waiting for this video, didn't bother watching the movie, heard it was horrible.
You have no idea
@@Megatron_95 whenever I see the Actor from the old "Tomorrow People" CW show in anything, I just assume it's going to be a dumpster fire