Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City
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, 30% Rotten Tomatometer Score- Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City is an affectionately faithful adaptation that further proves its source material is ill-suited to the big screen.
- , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreJake WilsonThe Age (Australia)
This brand of minimalism is harder than it looks: with so much stripped away, everything that remains needs to have the exact right weight. Raccoon City suffers a major loss of momentum around halfway, and never entirely recovers.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreWilliam BibbianiTheWrap
Doesn't do its own thing, and it does the old thing very badly.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreJames WhiteEmpire Magazine
This latest visit to Raccoon City captures the games' spirit but fails to translate that to cinematic thrills.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreSara Michelle FettersMovieFreak.com
While Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City has its moments, it doesn't have enough of them to make watching the movie in its entirety worthwhile.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScorePeter BradshawGuardian
This is a reasonably entertaining, unpretentiously gory horror exercise, although clearly a bit distended with an excess of characters that need to be incorporated into the plot, many of whom feature in older RE lore.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreTrace SauveurAustin Chronicle
It flatlines, all of its franchise reverence proving futile within a messy narrative.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreNadya MartinezOtakus & Geeks
The story moves at a pretty fast pace not really giving viewers a chance to delve into all the dark secrets of Umbrella, or even enough time to focus on developing any of the characters.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreFelix Vasquez Jr.Cinema Crazed
A bang up reboot, one that revels in the inherent terror of the games, in spite of its flaws.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreZach PopeZach Pope Reviews
The attention to detail of each location was so spot on but god the characters, the SCRIPT, the CGI, & even the tension…. I’m so let down….
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreDavid Hoganhoganreviews.co.uk
Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City wasn’t too bad an experience, but after it being hyped up as being closer to the games to see Wesker and Leon so badly butchered hurt even more than it did in the barely Resident Evil-like Anderson films.
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