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.
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    Jake 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.
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    William BibbianiTheWrap
    Doesn't do its own thing, and it does the old thing very badly.
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    James WhiteEmpire Magazine
    This latest visit to Raccoon City captures the games' spirit but fails to translate that to cinematic thrills.
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    Sara 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.
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    Peter 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.
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    Trace SauveurAustin Chronicle
    It flatlines, all of its franchise reverence proving futile within a messy narrative.
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    Justin 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.


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    Nadya 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.
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    Felix Vasquez Jr.Cinema Crazed
    A bang up reboot, one that revels in the inherent terror of the games, in spite of its flaws.
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    Zach 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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