Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City

2021

1h 47m

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6.0/10

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Once the booming home of pharmaceutical giant Umbrella Corporation, Raccoon City is now a dying Midwestern town. The company’s exodus left the city a wasteland…with great evil brewing below the surface. When that evil is unleashed, the townspeople are forever…changed…and a small group of survivors must work together to uncover the truth behind Umbrella and make it through the night.

Directors

Johannes Roberts

Writers

Johannes Roberts(writer by)

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Kaya Scodelario

Hannah John-Kamen

Robbie Amell

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Claire Redfield

Jill Valentine

Chris Redfield

Albert Wesker

Leon Kennedy

Chief Irons

William Birkin

Ada Wong

Richard Aiken

Lisa Trevor

Vickers

Ben Bertolucci

Truck Driver

Sherry Birkin

Annette Birkin

Young Claire

Young Chris

Kevin Dooley

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Johannes Roberts

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Johannes Roberts(writer by)

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A great improvement over the previous movies, but it still misses the mark. Discussing what "is" Resident Evil will never be easy, both the games and the movies reached quite a wide audience, and the two cannons have widely different themes, lovers of the games will want more gore, darkness, horror and a bit of cheesiness, and lovers of the movies will be looking forward to big set pieces, pumped action scenes, and a wide cast of characters. Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccon City is clearly trying to bridge the gap by offering an experience closer to that of the games, but in movie form, and it gets close, the themes are there, the cheesy, but undeniably cool scenes are present, and the overall plot follows that of the games much more closely. Having said that, the movie lacked the courage to fully abandon the core formula of the previous movies completely, creating a weird clashing mishmash of ideas. Welcome to Raccoon city wanted to have a wide cast of important characters, and to do so it decided to borrow from 3 games at once, and in its attempt to convert 3 isolated storylines into one a lot was left on the cutting room floor, characters were poorly developed, many events were barely explained, and overall the movie lacked cohesion. It's painful to see how many good ideas were there that lacked the time to be properly executed, one glaring example is the character of Leon, one can see that the movie tried to give him a zero to hero arc, with him going from a clumsy cop to a strong-headed, laid back hero, but the audience doesn't have enough time with the character to fully grasp that growth, and it just ends up giving the feeling that his character just changes drastically from scene to scene. A really good effort, but still a clumsy movie by the end, on par with the rest of the series.

AJYURH10 Jul, 2025