Артем Мячин

Would give it 4.5 stars, but seeing as I can't 5 star will do. It's a great standalone mini-series somewhat loosely based on the game series, and I'd say it's better this way. Even though the story telling is economical and fast-paced leaning more on showing then telling, spends enough time with characters for them to be likable and emotional scenes to have an impact and just does a job well. It's an excellent mix of cool fight scenes and character pieces. The show is a complete horror/action adventure story that I loved way more than I was expecting to.

Capcom would you please hire an actual writer and a competent director instead of whoever you have working on the franchise now. Worst CGI Resident Evil movie to date imo (Infinite Darkness doesn't count). So I'm gonna vent. Very mild spoilers head. The writing is just bad. The dialogues are shallow and corny. The characters barely interact with each other, have no story arcs or meaningful relationships in the group. We also get YET ANOTHER whiny nonsesical bad guy that doesn't like Umbrella and BOWs, but uses the same tactics and tries to kill the world for some dumb reason. It's at least the 3rd such villain so far (out of 5 films!) - the Degeneration and Infinite Darkness had literally the same antagonist that does a laughable monologue about the world's injustices and injects himself with the virus at the end. The power level of every single character fluctuates like crazy throughout an entire film: -In the opening scene Jill barely fights off one malnourished zombie (when in RE5 she literally dodged bullets), but later does a freaking backflip off the wall to stab a dude in the head. -Claire does almost no fighting most of the movie, but out of nowhere does a 720 no scope flip over a tentacle in one of the bigger character set pieces. -Leon just tanks so much damage: gets his face bashed in, thrown into the walls and through the glass by a super soldier gal, barely gets winded. The fan service is tired and unoriginal: - Every female character wears the same clothes in every movie. Jill has an identical hairstyle and attire to her RE3 remake one. Which makes no sense since she has to have long blond hair since it's a direct continuation of RE5 story timeline. But even if she cut and dyed her hair. Why does she wear her 17-year-old clothes? Is it explained in any way? No. It's just because the makers really banked on her low cut shirt accentuating her big booba. -Claire again has her red leather jacket for the 3rd time in a row like she doesn't have any other clothes. - The random convenient scifi plasma rifle is conveniently lying in an abandoned armory depot (bet the writers thought it such a nuanced fan service to the RE3 remake). Along with a ton of other weapons that make no sense to be there. Vendetta was dumb and cheesy, but it was really fun at least. This one is just boring. Even the fight scenes are trash (laughed out loud when Jill picks up a shotgun and starts heroically blasting a big bad that is like 100 meters away lol). It honestly feels like they didn't even try with this one. Just got the most popular characters in one place and thought it was enough. Well it wasn't.