Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City

Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City

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.

  • Released: 2021-11-24
  • Runtime: 107 minutes
  • Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery
  • Stars: Robbie Amell, Hannah John-Kamen, Avan Jogia, Kaya Scodelario, Tom Hopper, Lily Gao, Holly de Barros, Chad Rook, Neal McDonough, Donal Logue, Janet Porter, Josh Cruddas, Sammy Azero, Marina Mazepa, Nathan Dales, Dylan Taylor, Carson Manning, Darren W. Marynuk, Stephannie Hawkins, Lauren Bill, Jenny Young, Matthew MacCallum, Pat Thornton, Pamela MacDonald, Nathaniel McParland, Aleks Alifirenko Jr., Kelly Reich, Jason Lee Bell, Amy Szoke, Kalie Hunter, Avaah Blackwell, Heloise Catherine Pead Galvin, Sophia Ann Pead Galvin, Andrea Ciacci, Lily Gail Reid, Daxton Gujral, Robert Chaumont, Jason Lee Bell
  • Director: Johannes Roberts
 Comments
  • faragobalint-80292 - 10 May 2024
    Is this a Resident Evil movie?
    Okay, so I will be honest, I have never played the games, and I know that this was made in favour of the hardcore fans of them. BUT it's still supposed to be a movie and as such it supposed to be engaging. This however was so blend and random that I had serious trouble to even pay attention to it. They cast some good actors- who did not fit the characters at all, they made some scarry parts- which weren't scarry at all and they did the special effects in cgi- which were... You know... Cgi... All in all the whole thing felt like a small budget indipendent "horror" movie but those at least sometimes have an actual atmosphere. No matter how well it tracks the video game storyline, it's just don't cut it as a movie, I would take the original movies over this any time.
  • byronkelly-78657 - 16 March 2024
    Finally a RE movie fans can appreciate!
    Ignore the terrible reviews! I've been looking forward to finally watching this after the disastrous series and can definitely recommend it to any fan of the games. Especially the first 2!

    The atmosphere created (especially the mansion) completely took me back to the moment I first played those games. Sure you can tell the budget wasn't amazing, but what they've done with it was excellent!

    Do all the characters look and act identical to those in the games? No. But do they have to? I see the potential for real character development along multiple movies which I find really appealing!

    In short. Great atmosphere, time loved characters, plenty of references, and great potential for a much more deserving series of movies!

    Finally!
  • alidasembsmoen - 28 December 2023
    Big confusing yawn
    I regret the time lost in watching this.

    I was more scared of the incompetent yahoos of the local PD than I was of any of the monsters.

    To anyone not already familiar with the franchise there is nothing to indicate what's going on. What little exposition is done through clunky dialogue doesn't help at all.

    Whose bright idea was this? Did anyone ask for this? I get that the first movies with Milla Jovovich weren't entirely in keeping with the games, but they were at least entertaining while telling a cohesive story. You didn't need to know anything to understand those. This mess is the opposite, and a complete waste of time.
  • abedigithenya - 25 December 2022
    Mixes all manner of apocalypses into one
    I am not sure if this was supposed to a vampire, alien invasion, supernatural movie, or supernatural movie.

    There are elements to every type of movie. At the start, it seems like we are going to watch vampires, but what we got is a mixture of vampire, supernatural, and alien like creatures mashed into one.

    It is also not clear from the storyline how the creatures came to being, or why one of them became friends with the female main character, or why the whole city had to be destroyed while there were perfectly healthy people in it.

    Its an all round terrible movie and fails in the horror aspect entirely.
  • TyrelLynes - 9 November 2022
    Carnosaur 2 to Dino crisis is Racoon City to resident evil games
    Alright then. There seems to be a lot of downing this movie. And I get it. Its not Night of the Living Dead. BUT, not every movie needs to be. This movie is to the original playstation games, what Carnosaur 2 is to Dino Crisis.

    For those of you that do not know, Carnosaur 2 came out in the mid 90's as a follow up to the early 90's cult classic, Roger Corman b-film. Roger Corman made hit classics, The Wild Angels, Death Race, Death Race 2000, Piranha, Frankenstein: Unbound and many, many other films. (He was even handed the original working script for Alien(1979) but felt it was too high concept for his production team and passed it onto someone he felt would compliment the material appropriately). Roger Corman is considered a schlock filmmaker in some circles. In others, he's considered the man who game purpose to scripts that wouldn't have any without him. The man is a LEGEND. And is absolutely respected in and out of his circle.

    Now, with all of that being said, this film was am absolutely fantastic complementary work to the video games. It's a shame it's so frowned upon. There IS a crowd for this type of movie. It's b grade. BUT SO WERE THE GAMES. The games were FAR from grade A in the voice acting department. And this film was so faithful in tone and feel. It was almost perfect. You saw the score I gave it. It's served the purpose of being the game in movie form. Like all of Roger Corman films complimented the scripts he was handed. No one could have done a better job than him at those films, just like this movie.
  • sjmills1 - 8 October 2022
    Best one in a long time
    There hasn't been a truly great Resident Evil film since the first one, but this origin story really is fantastic. The casting is nothing to complain about. Not one actor is the least bit hatable, and all turn in solid performances. The atmosphere is spot-on Umbrella-controlled Raccoon City. As far as creatures/mutations go, they did a very good job coming up with good looking ideas, especially the mystery girl in the orphanage and the many eyeballed mutation. My only complaint is that some automatic weapons appeared to have limitless ammo, while the one revolver correctly ran out after 6 shots. In all, it's one of the best Resident Evil films so far.
  • Ram-Jun - 11 September 2022
    Ambitious Disaster!
    • Resident Evil Welcome to Raccoon City is a much closer adaptation that tries as much as possible to be faithful to the games, and it succeeds in that to some extent, but on the hand it fails at all the other aspects of what makes a movie watchable and engaging.


    • After the last parts with Milla Jovovich finally finished, which weren't really that bad, and I would say they became more of a guilty pleasure for me anyway, we were all hoping for a new adaptation that's closer to the games and gives more respect to its lore and especially its characters because there was little of that in the earlier movies.


    • And now that we were finally getting a new adaptation that's actually centred this time around all the characters that we like. A lot of us were excited to see it, and thinking that finally someone is about to give us what we've always wanted ... But in the end, we get this slap on the face!!


    • I've always wondered why is it when a remake or an adaptation is produced, it has to screw up the important parts of its source material?!?!! ...


    • This movie is based on the first 2 resident evil games and a little bit on Code Veronica, and that's about the only thing to it. It has all of the familiar characters with no unnecessary additions of new ones like the older version, and some of these characters here fit nicely as their game counterparts while some others are just waaay off!!


    • The story is changed a little bit regarding Chris and Claire who are the first characters we see. Instead of being the new comers to Raccoon City, they're raised there in an orphanage run by William Berkin. I actually didn't mind that change and it was interesting for the original story and it could've been built up to a very good plot. But that's not what happened eventually.


    • Robbie Amell and Kaya Scodilario are about the only actors perfectly casted as their characters in this one being Chris and Claire, as well as Neal McDonough as Dr. Berkin. Most of the others however didn't bring out any of their characters' known personalities, ... Especially Leon, and I'll get to him shortly.


    • The funny part in the beginning is how the characters were introduced. It could've been made subtly without having their names fully mentioned for the sake of recognition.


    • And there was obviously A LOT of effort put into including every possible reference from the games, which is a good thing but on the other hand nothing else was considered in regards to the characters' personalities, sequence of events, and even common sense.


    • The dialogues were forced, and none of them seemed casual or genuine. The Jokes were corny, dry and certainly did not help with the storyline at all, and The CGI and even practical effects were terrible and took away a lot from the thrill of the movie.


    • The thing I'm pissed off about the most is that they completely wiped the floor with Leon's character in this one!! He was weak, idiotic, and devoided of any charisma here.


    • For his looks, The guy who played Leon should've been casted as Carlos instead because he fits that character more. Also his portrayal couldn't have been further from his game counterpart. And I get that this Leon here is a rookie cop just like in the game and he's getting himself up to do his job so it would be natural that he's stumbling in his decisions and being a little clumsy even, but they just flat out made him a useless idiot and a constant target for random bullying, and all of his scenes were just of him being completely stupid and oblivious to what is going on around him. I just could not believe how much they've butchered his character here.


    • As for the other characters, Jill was okayish, she wasn't too close or too far from her game counterpart. Hannah John-Kamen is a great actress as well and I would've liked to see more of her as Jill if it wasn't obviously for the stuffed and short story that was full of random events.


    • And Tom Hopper's Wesker was not bad either. I'm not saying every character in the movie needs to be exactly like the games, but I think he was a little too emotional for a character who's known to be completely apathetic and selfish and always puts himself first. But the main issue with this Wesker is that he was less charismatic and didn't really stand out as memorable villain.


    • And I think that was the main fault for the other characters too. Their personalities appeared generically similar to each other and without any distinguishable aspects to them that can make the audience drawn to them indivdually and to their journies in the story. They were all similarly nice, friendly, and on the same level, and none of them really stood out like the original characters in the games did at the very least.


    • The looks and effects of the human zombies and the dog weren't very convincing either. And I think the only monster that looked kind of ok was the licker. Also Berkin's monologue when he was turning into a monster after he injected himself was laughable, and definitely not on the level of Neal McDonough too cause he usually has stronger roles than this .. but at least he was a good casting choice as I said in the begnning.


    • His final look in the end however was horrendous and seemed cartoonish for a climactic scene like that. And that final scene inside the train was the last straw that completely shattered any potentially good thing about this movie or any possibility to take it seriously.


    • As our characters face the last monstrous form of Berkin. Leon casually walks in with a Rocket Launcher, obviously cause that's the final boss since the movie kept giving us all of those references, and that's when Leon delivers, ehmm the most badass line in the history of movies (You ugly fu**) it would've been better actually if he didn't say anything at all ... then he makes the clever decision to shoot the monster with the rocket launcher in a closed train car with everyone inside, and Chris standing right next to the monster. As if the explosion in that tiny space is only going to harm and kill the monster and no one else. It makes absolutely no sense at all!!


    • I would only give this film props for having the closest resident evil story we've ever seen and it brought all the characters we know from the games and while they weren't very similar to their game counterparts when it comes to their personality and presence, they were all there and they had their screen time at the very least, even the truck driver from RE2 had his scene copied almost exactly from the game.


    • But the downfall of this is obviously the mashed up, convoluted storyline of two or even three games stories reduced to about an hour and forty five minutes with too many characters, references and events shoved into it. The earlier Resident Evil 2 game had two stories of two characters trying to survive in the same area, and although both of their stories were interconnected in some parts and even repeated in a few others, the makers of the game managed to extend it to Two CDs with each of them having a compelling plot to play and follow.


    • But here you're trying to put the same two characters from that story in addition to about 4 other characters from a different one into just an hour and forty five minutes story?!


    • This movie was disappointing to say the least, and that's why I'm giving it 4/10. 2 for being too bad and the extra 2 are for bringing the actual resident evil references and characters. It did have potential to be a much better experience however if only it was handled better, simply if it was separated into two parts with each part handling a smaller number of characters at a time instead of cramming them all together. As well as putting more effort into the effects and CGI.