Review of Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021) by Lyndibs — 25 Nov 2021

Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City was very good! I enjoyed it!

Yes it is different than the video games ongoing storyline. It feels like a "What If" world in some ways. I feel like the differences are to keep long time RE fans like myself guessing. Giving us a bit of a newer journey as well as casual movie goers.

While this movie is more faithful over all compared to the Alice RE movies, it isn't an exact live action copy of the RE games. It is it's own universe. Much like Marvel movies compared to the comics they are based off of. The actors did a great job. The characters feel a little different than their video game counterparts, but they fit well in this movie version. You can still envision the characters we know and love though! There is still a lot they do and how they act that feels on point. They did pretty amazing on the environment and the music is fun.

There are a lot of easter eggs, references and attention to details through out the movie as well. Enjoyable fan service for sure!

I will say I feel like older RE fans will enjoy this movie more than casual movie goers. As we fans can pick up on the things mentioned directly above. But that is not to say casual movie goers won't enjoy it. It's fun regardless and it's a new beginning to a new universe based off the ongoing video game story we fans love. So can still be enjoyed as a brand new experience fan of the games or not.

But for fans it is nostalgia with twists.

I hope it does well and we get a sequel or maybe more. It's fun and they can do so many different things since it isn't canon to the games.