Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City

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.

Doesn't do its own thing, and it does the old thing very badly.

This latest visit to Raccoon City captures the games' spirit but fails to translate that to cinematic thrills.

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.

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.

It flatlines, all of its franchise reverence proving futile within a messy narrative.

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.



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.

A bang up reboot, one that revels in the inherent terror of the games, in spite of its flaws.

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….