I had somewhat high hopes for Welcome to Raccoon City when it was first announced, writer/director Johannes Roberts made it clear how big of a fan he was of the franchise, but the announcement that it was merging the first two games into one story put up some red flags, and sadly after watching it you can throw in two all-time great Resi characters being heavily rewritten for the worse as another strike against it. It’s far from all bad, especially for the budget, but the fan-side of me was disappointed after the hype of the film “being closer to the games”. Oh well, let’s take a look at the film as a whole.

This is a “bonus” review by the way because I’ve already covered Resident Evil 1 (HERE), it’s Remake (HERE), as well as Resident Evil 2 (HERE) and its Remake (HERE), so there wasn’t a game to review next to it, though I will throw in an extra related review after this goes up for the hell of it.

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