Review of Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021) by Rhm_89 — 26 Nov 2021

There's some good stuff here if you are willing to overlook the butchering of lore and characters. For example Chief Irons is coward (pretty much his only bad trait) in this, funny but absolutely nothing like his character. I will go through "some" lore differences real quick and the characters:

Chris Redfield: He doesn't really act like Chris, he doesn't believe Claire at all which later prompts William Birkin to call him dumb and her smart. He also is very childish having a back and forth shhhh with Claire, he not Wesker in this leads the unnamed Team (Team Bravo seems only to consist of Marini and Dewey here with Richard with the "Alpha" team we know minus Barry). He has some good moments but runs and tries to take on William Birkin but instead gets saved by Claire in mere seconds (Claire saving people tends to be a running theme). Here instead of being born and raised in New York, and taking care of Claire like in the books he with Claire was born and raised in Racoon City and after their parents died lived at the Orphanage there headed by William Birkin. Later Claire escapes and Chris basically gets raised and put to school and Airforce by Birkin and Umbrella, a stark change. He also has a thing for Jill in this which in the games is never shown beyond being a partner.

Claire Redfield: Here she meets Lisa at the Orphanage briefly and then escapes it leaving Chris behind for 5 yrs, this means that Claire has not in this learned her skills from Chris but just mysteriously happens to have learned on her own to the point she knows more than new but actually professionally trained rookie transfer Leon about weapons. She seems to act older than Chris and much smarter in this. Despite barely knowing or seeing Lisa somehow they formed a bond by Claire just seeing her and asking her name just to read it off the arm band. She's also to nonchalant in this. For example when the Re2 trucker hits what they think is a person (a zombie who just disappears for the rest of the movie) she just gets out says lets wrap up the body and have my police officer brother help. After the body disappears there's just a brief nonchalant comments about it. This seems very contrary to her Re2 motherly persona. Her character is fine other than this except when she basically is in to much in the forefront. Instead of looking for Chris due to losing contact with him after the Spencer Mansion incident and thus looking for him, she just disappeared after escaping the Orphanage for 5 yrs and decides to visit him to show him info for some reason Ben Bertolucci decides to give to her. In which Chris doesn't believe her and basically gives her money, tells her he is going to work, not to mess his bike up and get out. Weird.

Leon S. Kennedy: Worst character in this. His backstory is completely rewritten almost entirely. He's not actually a brand new rookie recruit, he's actually a new "transfer" who accidentally shot his partner in the butt in his previous precint. His dad is also a hot shot cop. This seems to be why he is a cop instead of the incidents of the murders in the Arklay Mountain's giving him motivation due to a strong sense of Justice to join the force. Unlike this movie Leon was seen as an intelligent and gifted rookie. His training officers being none other than Rita and Kevin Ryman from Resident Evil Outbreak. Rita who assisted Marvin to help save the people of the RPD and Kevin being a main character and exceptional Marksman who took a pivotal role in the events on the frontlines. Leon in this movie gets saved multiple times and doesn't really do anything until the very end via one rocket Launcher. Claire has to save and carry him twice. Claire also has to help him learn how to use the shotgun, and he gets tricked and basically blackmailed easily by a jailed Ben Bertolucci.

Wesker: Wesker doesn't look anything like his counterpart, never gets his glasses, doesn't lead Team Alpha, plays around with the others like a typical team member. Has not worked for Umbrella and though contacted by a rich group to take information in the Spencer Mansion for a high price doesn't know that group either. He also doesn't seem to have any connections whatseover with the Wesker experiments nor does he even know William Birkin. Like the other's carries their characters title in name only. After betraying his group by leaving them behind to get the virus from Birkin, he shoots Birkin and Annette. Gets shot by Jill over Sherry and dies regretting things after making a joke.

Jill Valentine: She doesn't look anything like Jill and she really doesn't have much of a personality. She's just shown being incredible in marksmanship, has a thing for Wesker stated (which is completely contrary to her game character btw) and pretty much bland. She does go a tad overboard in things but besides that not much to say.

Overall it was meh, as long as you don't take it seriously have expectations it would be faithful it can pass the time I guess.