This write-up contains FULL SPOILERS for the new Resident Evil movie, including its ending. If you don't want to find out what happens, come back later after you've seen it for yourself.
I’m a little late to the party with this, but I finally saw Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil over the weekend.
Despite Capcom’s survival horror series maintaining its status as my favourite of all time, I’ve never been the biggest fan of the film adaptations. Paul W.S. Anderson’s six-movie franchise starring Milla Jovovich as Alice is fun to an extent, but I can’t in good conscience say that any of the entries are actually good.
Johannes Robert’s reboot Welcome to Raccoon City, meanwhile, is a guilty pleasure of mine. Objectively, it’s absolute garbage, but it goes so ludicrously hard on game references that I kinda love it in some weird, Stockholm Syndrome kind of way.
But now, with Cregger’s fresh reboot, it feels wonderful to finally have an adaptation that is genuinely brilliant – not just brilliant for a video game adaptation, but brilliant full stop. It’s right up there with the director’s previous films, Barbarian and Weapons, and a non-stop thrill ride from start to finish that pays homage to Capcom’s games without being held hostage by them.
The film stars Austin Abrams as protagonist Bryan, a hapless courier who’s tasked with delivering a super-important package to Raccoon City General Hospital. Right from the start, we get a sense that things aren’t quite right in the city and surrounding areas, with the opening hospital flooded with injured patients and TV broadcasts hinting at a wider disaster.
Soon after Bryan’s departure, then, his day quickly descends into chaos, beginning with an unfortunate car accident in which he runs down a lone woman on a snowy, isolated road. Surprising absolutely no one, it turns out that the woman is a zombie – but not one you’d recognise from the games. The zombies here are fast and aggressive, and they possess a frankly horrific ability to merge with other zombies to form a grotesque creature with dozens of flailing limbs.
As the film’s protagonist, Bryan is exceptional. We know little about him other than the fact that he has a pregnant girlfriend who he attempts to contact at several points on his journey. He’s just a normal guy trying to finish his job, make sense of the horrors that surround him, and most importantly, survive.
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