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Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City movie review: Mummifying the franchise with a recast retread

Jerky action and awkward storytelling make this like a bad joke — not the dread-inducing nightmare that it should have been

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A still from Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City

A still from Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City

Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City
A: Horror/ action
Dir: Johannes Robert
Cast: Robbie Amell, Chad Rook, Hannah John-Kamen
Rating: 1.5/5

The Resident Evil franchise has gone beyond bearable in the past decade of routine, unimaginative franchise instalments — Milla Jovovich, its lead star being the only charismatic draw that might have pulled you in to start with. Unfortunately, this issue doesn’t even have that. Johannes Roberts, who takes over the reins of the Resident Evil series from the super prolific Paul WS Anderson, focuses his energies on pandering to the video game aficionados. Clearly, he is not interested in creating a movie experience — just hitting on references and elements from the game to evince nostalgic interest.

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