Netflix's Resident Evil & The 2021 Reboot End With The Same Sequel Tease
Warning: SPOILERS Ahead For Netflix's Resident Evil
Netflix's Resident Evil TV series and the 2021 movie reboot Welcome To Raccoon City end with the same sequel hook, teasing the arrival of a fan favorite game character. The Milla Jovovich Resident Evil movies were many things, including being the highest-grossing film franchise based on a video game. One thing they were not, however, is popular with followers of the game series. The movies may have borrowed characters, monsters and settings from their interactive source material, but their storylines and outlandish action had little to do with the survival horror tone of the games.
Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City was the seventh live-action movie and arrived in 2021, serving as a total reboot. It attempted to address the most common fan complaints, including putting the focus on horror and staying faithful to the story of the games. Even with those good intentions, the film was another letdown, trying to cram far too many characters and subplots into a slim runtime. Its poor visual effects and underwhelming horror were also issues and unlike the Jovovich saga, Welcome To Raccoon City — which had many game easter eggs — was a box-office dud. While it ended with a sequel hook, a follow-up looks doubtful.
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The latest live-action outing for the property is Netflix's Resident Evil series. The showrunners have proclaimed the show is faithful to the backstory from the games, but its focus on two original characters — Jade and Billie Wesker — and bizarre tonal mix of teen drama and post-apocalyptic action has not gone down well with critics and audiences. The Netflix Resident Evil does appear to have been a
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