B Tang

Excellent tone, very strong acting, but highly highly questionable writing/character motivations. Simply put, a lot of actions taken by Snow do not make much sense and there's a lot of aspects and missed opportunities to make Snow a character that simply makes more sense.

Devoid of tension, drama, or any meaningful/comprehensible depth or growth to any of the main characters. After the initial scene to start the movie, everything else after is an endless, monotonous, and predictable chase scene that lacks any stakes. Characters exist in this film and you wonder what their purpose is beyond simple plot devices that force events forward and lack any real meaning (SPOILERS: the fiance, the CIA, and the boat divers). It is an easy action movie to fall asleep to and one that is highly highly forgettable. The only final 10% of the movie was anything that was remotely interesting. Our main villain is the nicest nazi you'll ever see on the big screen

A significant change in tone from what you would expect from Resident Evil. Most humor is out of place, rarely is it fitting. Albert Wesker being black is whatever, but I did find him to be definitely the most fun and enjoyable aspect of the entire show. This series takes a step towards centrism on its characters and a turning, interesting plot and plot twists, giving it more considerable more depth and meaning when historically compared to its braindead predecessor action films, but still leaves much to be desired. I wouldn't consider it some kind of Resident Evil adaptation or anything like that, but rather a story written in the world of Resident Evil.

Turned this off after 5 minutes. The literal opening scenes of this series is lazy garbage storytelling. 1. Randoms get killed by monsters 2. Narration 3. Interesting scene -> flashback And thats when I had enough

Having never watched the cartoon series, I'm basing this series as a standalone. Overall, it is a solid. Not great, but most certainly undeserving of the shallow critique "professional" reviewers give it. With only 6 episodes, it most definitely seems rushed. Given that, it was an impressive feat to give just about every single important character depth and development. The plot has some intriguing twists that definitely keeps someone watching, though it should be detestable that the first season ends in basically a cliffhanger with too many unanswered questions. The most severe, and probably most glaring issue of this series is the world-building. Are the only staff in Alfea really only three people? Especially when the show draws literal comparisons within the script to Harry Potter, Alfea hardly seems magical. One other important gripe is how all the fairies become buddy buddy is like... not done well at all. Sky and Bloom being in the same scene together 90% of the time makes me want to tear off my balls. Zero chemistry between the two. Bloom feels a bit tropey, but tropes aren't inherently bad. Barring these issues, this series can still provide a compelling story with multiple characters with depth. Characters: 4/5 Plot: 4/5 Acting and script: 5/5 World-building and setting: 1/5 (Is there no such thing as Asian fairies? This is contemporary fantasy...) Not the best thing you'll ever see, but in comparison to a number of other fantasies, it's rather good.