![]() ![]() The film opens with a young Claire Redfield and her brother Chris in an orphanage in the heart of Raccoon City, a place run by the malevolent William Birkin ( Neal McDonough). Anderson films, writer/director Johannes Roberts has made a movie that is the most directly inspired by the games of any flick so far in “Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City.” The characters and even the locations will be incredible familiar to “RE” players and the tone feels more connected to a game series that was originally inspired by “ Evil Dead.” However, choppy action and clunky storytelling hold “Raccoon City” back from becoming the dread-inducing nightmare that hardcore fans know the game series to so often be.įrom the very beginning of “Welcome to Raccoon City,” fans of the games will note the references to the world they know and love. Pushing aside the CGI-heavy action of the Paul W.S. ![]() In 2017, the “ Resident Evil” series of games tore down the action-heavy experience it had built up over the last few installments and returned to basic survival horror with “ Resident Evil 7: Biohazard.” Four years later, the series of films of the same name does a similar hard reset, although this one doesn’t go back to the beginning of the films but pushes deeper into the source material, really adapting the first two games, especially “ Resident Evil 2” to the screen for the first time. ![]()
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