Resident Evil

[Null]

Resident Evil really gets its hooks — or tendrils — into you — 3/5

brings gore and giggles to Raccoon City in a middling video-game adaptation — 3/5

perfectly recreating the tone of playing the original games — 9/10

Anyone seen this yet?

[NateDog]

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Just out from Resident Evil, enjoyed it. Thought the first half was stronger than the last (a bit like a few Resi games). Enjoyed the RE nods, most were fairly small but a nice touch. Not sure I'd watch again but we'll see once the home release drops.

[black king]

I'm in full agreement with Nate. The first bit in the more remote areas are scarier. I saw several RE references, but honestly if those had been cut it could have still be an ok horror flick with a different name. If I had one criticism 

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I'd say it's the ending. It doesn't really end it just kinda stops and the credits roll.

[NateDog]

I'm in full agreement with Nate. The first bit in the more remote areas are scarier. I saw several RE references, but honestly if those had been cut it could have still be an ok horror flick with a different name. If I had one criticism 

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I'd say it's the ending. It doesn't really end it just kinda stops and the credits roll.

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Weirdly enough I've seen lots of people having issues wuth the ending but I didn't think it was that abrupt. The whole movie was about his character and their journey to Raccoon City hospital to make the delivery, and by the time he does the infection has taken over and he's seriously mutated. Sets things up for another movie. I know Creggers said he's not doing this or anything else in someone else's universe again (and I don't blame him given what RE fans have proved themselves to be like) but I'm sure someone else will be charged with it. Wouldn't at all be surprised to see a representation of one of the games if this continues to do well but I'm not sure if Capcom would have an issue with that and just want new in-universe stuff.

[Jassassino]

Saw it on release night in the BFI Imax, honestly I really enjoyed it. I think it felt like a real welcome change of pace and idea for Resident Evil (and horror video game adapations in general) films and had some beautiful elements. The first half was gorgeous, and played with light and colour so nicely, and whilst it retained a lot of the silly tropes of Resident Evil and some really fun easter eggs, nothing felt so agregious that I was taken out of it thinking about the "Marvelisation effect of cinema".

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Ending was fine to me, honestly also thought that was a welcome change - it felt better that it ended in the way that it did than if he had managed to get the cure in time, and it felt much more tragic as well considering he'd completed his emotional and character-driven journey/growth only for, shortly after his realisations, to be totally snatched away from him. Anything more would've felt like bloat. I may have even ended it earlier if I was Producing this I think, maybe right as he begins to turn, but the onslaught and carnage was fun anyway.

Hopefully the next film is just Leon making nonstop one-liners and backflipping constantly.

[bigboss88]

All in all, the first half was better than the second. My problem wasn’t the ending but the funny stuff tbh. The movie was 8/10 RE movie for me.

Moving away from the game universe was a good call imo.

[Helikaon]

Once I realised that the main character was basically Jack Burton, I settled in for the ride. Best Resident Evil movie by absolute miles and miles, but not the best Zack Creggers movie. Still, I enjoyed it enough to see it twice in a matter of days.