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 ScoreJustin KimLoud and Clear Reviews
As far as Resident Evil movies go, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City isn’t a complete disaster – but it proves to be nothing more than the lesser of many evils.
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….
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