Review of Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021) by Mp-40 — 28 Nov 2021

If you're like me, a big fan of the games and CGI movies. You love and respect the lore and source material. You would expect a film based on the games it would not be a 1:1 recreation but at the very least mostly resembling them. That's not the case in Welcome To Raccoon City. The film takes games 1 and 2 (remake). Mostly 2 with a 10 minute pinch of 1 and smashes them together to create an poor original story with elements and moments from the games. Many characters are not even present. No Enrico, Rebecca, (only 1 member of Bravo they come accross is Kenneth, because of course they needed an iconic game moment with the turning zombie) Not to mention Bravo apparently took an SUV to the mansion and not a helicopter. Marvin Brana, Hunk and umbrella forces, and Tyrant. And no chance for characters such as Carlos, Nikolai, Mihkail, and enemies such as Nemesis. Since they forwent anything to do with RE3. Brad Vickers also dies at Spencer mansion afte crashing the chopper into the mansion after being bitten and turning. Wesker kills his zombified self. Then characters who are present are nothing like there video game characters. In appreance anf personality. For example, Chief Irons is a good guy and not a maniac. He becomes best friends with and Claire and Leon and attempts to escape RPD with them Then is killed by a Licker of all things.

Leon is a complete bumbling idiot who needs Claire to save him throughout. His origin is he only got on the force because of his dad, and gets scorned by a fellow rpd officer for shooting his partner in the ass. Wesker is also a "good guy" who doesn't even betray Chris and Jill. The lab/nest is undoubtedly the worst scene. Now Wesker and Birkin have never met. Completely ignoring the game lore, they both started at Umbrella both very young and were co-workers. Wesker then shoots Birkin and then he injects himself with the G-virus. Then Wesker kills Annette. Sherry then grabs Annettes gun, and Wesker and Sherry are aiming at eachother. (Who has no pivitol role in the movie at all, she's just there to tag a long) Moments later everyone else swoops in and Jill shoots Wesker, then runs to his aide and proceeds to give the worst acting performance ever before he dies. Birkin only reaches stage 2 mutation before Leon kills him with a Rocket Launcher he "found in 1st class" as he puts it. Ada Wong who's MIA the whole movie. Appears in a mid credits scene with a now resurrected Wesker, where it's Ada who gives Wesker his trademark sunglasse! They also took an idea from the Paul Anderson movie. Resident Evil: Apocalypse. Umbrella seals off Raccoon City and nukes it at the end. Same thing here as well. The solider "stating raccoon city locked down" while sporting an umbrella patch on his shoulder. Whereas in the game world. It's the US government that seals off Raccoon City and destroys it with a nuke. So much lore and source material was there to work off of was not even acknowledged The characters in the movie look and act nothing like the video game counterparts they are trying to portray. The story is all over the place, and is rushed through to get everything and everyone they could in 1hr30m.