Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City 2021 by AverageMansReviews

Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City 2021 by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/feeding/animal cruelty/transformation/medical/character on fire/burning/shooting

So what's the point of this reboot?: I mean for roughly the first 36 minutes all you get is the origin and background work of the storyline and these characters in some capacity and as you can tell by me making reference to roughly 36 minutes it isn't exactly quick or engaging. But generally speaking the Umbrella Corporation has been doing strange experiments in Raccoon City and now The Umbrella Corporation is withdrawing from this City there is now increasingly strange goings-on here. Just a friendly heads up there is a scene be for the closing credits. The pacing is what it is; meaning on one hand, because of this timeframe and its content is so damaging that on the other hand for the remaining of this project it can solidly hold things together but the damage had already been done and this film is only roughly 107 minutes long.

The RCPD [Raccoon City Police Department] there is this Rookie RPD Leon S. Kennedy [Avan Jogia] is on the front desk as everyone else in this department is discussing and working on this urgent situation. He falls asleep listening to this music through his headset, so he is unaware that he has this truck [ one of those tanker ones] heading towards this building; Trucker Driver [Pat Thornton] seems to be going through this metamorphosis thanks to his dog biting him, which unfortunately this dog seems to be changing as well.

But what remains of this Trucker's humanity seems to cause his truck to go on its side and consequently burst into flames. This is still blissfully unaware as the camera shot is looking through the door at him with sounds and flames of the wreckage can be heard [seen as it relates to the flames] with the song which our Rookie is listening to "CRUSH" by Jennifer Paige which now accompanies this scene, with this trucker walking into this Police Department on fire [ when I say on fire I mean like Johnny Storm/The Human Torch,] just before he makes it to the front desk he gets shot by someone out of the scene which causes the music and simultaneously our Rookie wakes up with surprise/automatically does stand up and get out of the way with saying "What the ****! With the camera shot spanning right to reveal Chief Irons [Donal Logue] with his gun drawn and standing at the top of these stairs with these words "You may want to get a fire extinguisher and closed the gates there may be others." The Chef turned his back and carries on with the Rookie asking with a stutter starting the beginning stages of the word others turning his head to face the Chief "Other What?!" But he doesn't get an answer so he quickly gets on with the tasks he has been given.

The character developments and performances fulfil their purpose; Claire Redfield [child; Lily Gail Reid and adult; Kaya Scodelario] and Chris Redfield [child; Daxton Grey Gujral and adult; Robbie Amell.] Generally speaking have this not believing his sister that she heard or saw strange things going on in this Raccoon City Orphanage/his sister returning after five years and him siding with Dr William Birkin/Mutant [Neal McDonough,] in a nutshell because he has been very supportive throughout Chris' life case and point he is now a member of  STARS Alpha Team, another member of this team is Jill Valentine; Special Tactics And Rescue Service [Hannah John-Kamen;] these are just some of the characters and their performers but as I have already made reference to the cast fulfil their purpose.

This film receives: 3/10, this film is poor; yes as I have pointed out the RCPD sequence is has lots to offer as it relates to action, art, and yes things do get better, consistently better when we are heading into or in Spencer's Mansion in its entirety and beyond [just in case if you're wondering roughly around the 45 minute mark; is when we start in this location, but we don't stay in this location to begin with, but at some point we will stay here] or we go back to the Raccoon City Orphanage in present times But I stand by what I said earlier so what was the point of this reboot? Because the previous series of films only ended roughly 4 years ago in 2017 and to begin the reboot with a 3/10, based on my opinion is not exactly a good start, I should quickly point out again that the first 36 minutes of this project does so much damage that for a long time this film was looking  at something lower for a long time and to be fair to myself, I have already highlighted the this film does get much better, so this is another situation of counterbalance and I can't repeat what I actually said when this film was finished, but I can put a softer version instead of "That was fudging poop."

Now just to cover my back after doing some research I am aware that I gave the previous series of films and their instalments some less than positive marks as well, but in comparison I gave Resident Evil 2002 8/10 Link  https://averagemansreviews2017.blogspot.com/2018/10/resident-evil-2003-by-averagemansreviews.html which is something supremely better which to base your potential franchise on