Thoughts on the Resident Evil movie?

[Ico]

I'm gonna confess, I'm not the most lore head guy when it comes to RE, so I didn't get much bothered by the lack of characters and stuff in this film, what I really liked was the progression of places, the protag went from a house, then a city, then sewers and finally a lab, it got the feeling of RE even tho it lacked everything else.

The humor to me was kind of a hit or miss, I laughed almost the entire time but damn, they really ruined the climax in the lab while trying to be funny, shouldve been a more serious scene due to the context.

Overall a 8.9/10 experience to me. Really liked the atmosphere, characters, pacing and comedy. But there were times were the "capcom goofy" worked agaisnt it for me.

 

[voke]

Great film. I rated it 3.5 on Letterboxd. Much better than the directors last film "weapons"

I actually died laughing in the lab scene when he's waiting for the cure

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

It's okay. Great start, but gets stupidly exposition-heavy near the mid-point, and some odd Three Stooges-level comedy in the end with the lab people that undercuts what should be an intense sequence.

Also the path of the mutations didn't make a lot of sense; why'd the main char end up mutating into a Birkin-like enemy from the kid's bite, and how'd the kid get the mutation they had? What mutation did the infected woman have at the start to lead to what she ended up becoming? That part seemed all over the place.

Solid 3/5. Not terrible, not great, either. I'd still say it's probably at best maybe a teeny bit better than the 2000 flick, but it doesn't clear it. Can't compare to the other Anderson films since those are basically sequels to an ongoing storyline wrapped up by the 6th film.