Archive for tag 'franchise:ResidentEvil'

  • Resident Evil: Welcome to Racoon City

    So this is another reboot, for the money. They got that right, there’s a Jill Sandwich joke in the first minutes.

  • Resident Evil: The Final Chapter

    This is not the final chapter, feels like yet another chapter told badly for devilish reasons. It retroactively makes the last film worse, the whole President Wesker subplot is abandoned offscreen.

  • Resident Evil: Retribution

    This is a bombastic improvement over the rest of the series, the explosions and overall action sequences are better. Paper-thin characters, just as the doctor ordered for brain shutdown entertainment.

  • Resident Evil: Afterlife

    More derivative Resident Evil films. Yes Paul, I have seen The Matrix, Children of Men, and The Island. It’s called afterlife because the cast comes back even though they died.

  • Resident Evil: Extinction

    Biohazard: The Road Warrior. A particularly crummy Mad Max ripoff, with final boss fight setting up the next film.

  • Resident Evil: Apocalypse

    The second one, a direct sequel. Mostly a retread with smaller and smaller mean scene length. There are just too damn many cuts, it’s all chopped up like confetti.

  • Resident Evil

    It’s no Event Horizon, but it’s a competent mainstream horror film. Derivative, but a good effort.