The T-virus doesn't even act like the T-virus, it's like he thought the T and G viruss were the same when they aren't.
They don't sprout tentacles and the infected don't fuse together into a pile of bodies.

“Move over Mia Winters, Pinky’s found a new punching bag.” But to be fr, I definitely agree with everything you said. Even you’re closing points on how Hollywood views nerd culture as beneath is how me and ever other comic book fan is stuck with the Blackrock funded MCU and adaptations that don’t give a damn about what makes the characters inspiring and interesting DCU

Hell yeah! Been waiting on this one. Glad you decided to actually do it 😁

If Zach Cregger respected any lore, season, decade, existing fans, or himself (possible cash-grabbiness and crabby) even the slightest bit then I could respect his creative endeavor. But, as my single mom professional baker grandma always told me, "Dear, not everyone has to be best friends." So, Zach, take all your bags of money and stop bitching. And Cregger fans, not everyone has to perceive any art the same way you do. Or be your friend. Millennial Buzzfeed humor does not make a good RE movie.

I’m glad you stood up to people threatening you. It’s stupid to get so up in arms about someone’s opinion, I don’t agree with parts of your review but that’s such a stupid reason to try to hurt your channel

I absolutely can't stand this idea that people only want Leon for a Resident Evil movie, people have been so screwed up by RE9 that they think the entire series is about him when it isn't.

Someone else said it better than me: just like with everything else out of Hollywood these days, this film feels like "the cool kids" discovered our hobbies, took a mild interest, and are now pushing us out while gaslighting us that their interpretation of our hobby is what it's been all along.

Thank you for this video. As an OG Resident Evil fan I felt alone with my own criticism of this movie… I mean I kinda liked it but I was promised a Resident Evil movie, it felt like someone inviting me to have a Roast Beef and getting a pizza instead, I would definitely enjoy the pizza but that’s not a fucking roast beef. I can tell this movie was pretty much written without considering it a Resident Evil movie and Constantin Films were like “oh shit we’re about to loose the license for RE let’s use that Dark/Comedy script of The Thing’s Zach Creeger and just ad some zombies in it and slap the Resident Evil name on top of it.”

Zach Gregger didn't need to show any of the characters from the games that were in Raccoon City at the same time Brian was going through his own story.
All he needed to do was make us BELIEVE that they were out there doing what they did in the games as the movie was happening.

But not having the movie set in 1998, having it snow and not even portraying the zombies as zombies made that impossible.
Think about it, Zach Gregger had a BARE MINIMUN that he needed to do with this movie AND HE COULDN'T EVEN DO THAT!!!

In re9 Grace is our everyman.

Grace is absolutely terrified, and you understand her fear. Her trauma is shown to build her character to be relatable. Being stuck in a place where you'd just die by the next corner, you'd be just as scared.

And yet grace conquers that fear bit by bit. From trying to escape her situation on her own, and slightly more when she meets Emily. knowing she can't show any fear because the both of them are scared.(showing the proof of a hero) yes i did a MH reference.

But by the end, she couldn't "save that scared little girl" she saw herself as. her resolve to uncover the truth, strengthen her and she completely conquer her fear.

Zack's movie is just a flop:

If Resident Evil's 9th mainline game did this with a new character vs. Zack's Evil Resident is just garbage compared to its inspirational Source material.

This is so refreshing, thank you. I love Zach Cregger and hearing that he was making an RE movie had me unbelievably hyped, so going into this, I truly thought there was potential for something meaningful here. Coming out of it extraordinarily disappointed and seeing the rather positive rhetoric online has been making me want to rip my hair out of my head. Media literacy is out the window amongst average movie watchers. The fact something good like Hokum went under the radar and this has blown up positively is all I need to know about where audiences are.

The prodigal review has arrived!

I have a theory that this film was originally supposed to be an artsy monster film about The Fear of Parenthood until somebody said "Tie it into Resident Evil". Then everything fell apart. There's just so much baby imagery in this movie it cant be ignored. The fat man in the sewer disgustingly 'giving birth' to rats. The whole NICU scene in the hospital. Him shooting the girl. Even the tentacles coming out of the zombies bodies to fuse them together could be seen like umbilical cords. Obviously there's the whole conversation with the girlfriend being taken into account as well.
And you know what that could be a good concept for a movie. But the tone of this film makes it so you cant take a single scene seriously.
Which is weird because the movie kind of had me up until the RV scene. There was some neat lighting tricks and camera shots that i liked. But then when he gets to the actual city the whole movie takes a giant dip in quality.
Whats also funny is people use the excuse that "Well its common in the games for the areas to get progressively less good so this movie follows that same throughline". Which yes it technically true that the first area in each game is usually the best and the lab usually sucks, but i doubt that's a deliberate decision on the game designers part. So why should i accept that the movie gets worse as it goes on "on purpose".
Side note: Not a single Umbrella logo in the Umbrella lab. Or even in the case that he's carrying the whole movie as far as i can recall. They name drop Umbrella one time and that's it. Which leads me even further to believe that this was never meant to be a Resident Evil movie.
Also cool. Im supposed to cream my pants at every easter egg. Even the ones that are just straight up wrong? Leons Gun Shop? Instead of, you know, using the name of the gunshop that's actually supposed to be in Raccoon City? Idk. Ive been gaslit into thinking im stupid for not liking this movie and im just tired. So after Street Fighter im probably just done with video game movies in general after this.

I don’t dislike the idea of the mc dying at the end of the movie, but the way it was handled was bloody awful.

They should’ve dropped all semblance of comedy and kept it serious for the last 15 minutes of the movie.

I would’ve had it where there’s some back and forth with Bryan and the scientists because presumably the scientists saw that he was infected and therefore know he will turn in just a matter of time.

Have the eggheads try to trick him into giving up the bag but Bryan threatens to drop it or something. Scientists relent but as soon as they get it off him, they throw him in a clean room or makeshift holding cell.

From then on its a scramble to make the cure and fix Bryan before he gets out and kills them all. All tension and no goofy “I got it!” scenes.

Make the last scene reminiscent of the games where you have to navigate a room or solve a puzzle while there’s an enemy in it.

Is Hollywood allergic to the first Resident Evil game? It’s cheesy, but that’s the charm. Before this so called RE film got released, I asked, “Where’s the Spencer Manaion, Chris Redfield, Jill Valentine, etc.?”

Zach being the voice over intercom interrupting the crying, says it all. The entire movie is for him, and him alone.

If the guy survived, I would’ve definitely watched it again, but the ending doesn’t justify another rewatch

Hell, at least with movies like the Minecraft Movie and Mario Movies, they actively tied in things you could tie back to and reference to the games. You couldn't say the same here

I think Zach already had a standalone zombie movie in the works, and Constantin Films was needing a Zombie movie to keep the rights for Resident Evil, so both parties just joined forces, not knowing that their pieces don't actually fit.  Felt like the real goal was Constantin Films keeping the RE Live-action movie rights by making a movie every 5 years.
One thing's for sure, they'll make a new live-action RE movie within 5 years again.

I had to explain to people so many times, that Resident Evil is not about Leon. Zach messed up mentioning "I didn't want to retell Leons story" guess that first off ITS NOT EVEN HIS STORY. So idiots who call you out for not liking it accuse people for hating it cause "nO lEon".

All the props from guns to keys to herbs......cute. THAT DOESNT MAKE IT RESIDENT EVIL. Where are the SLOW Tvirus zombies? We forget Resident evil has inspired roots from Romeros Films? where are the lickers? Mr.X? infected insects? WHY IS UMBRELLA NOT A ACTUAL CHARACTER/PRESENCE IN the film.  People go on and on about "oh it shows how an average person would be in Resident Evil" well I wouldn't know because this movie doesn't put the main character against enemies and obstacles from THE DAMN GAME ITS SUPPOSE TO ADAPT.

By the end of this film, every casual should have some idea on who Umbrella is, what they want, their sneaky behavior, and the desire to see them fail. We don't even know how the hell the outbreak happens.

Train to Busan is more of a Resident Evil film than this stupid ass, trash ass movie. Its no better than the Paul Anderson and Netflix movies.