Netflix's Resident Evil Vs. The Movies: Is The New Series An Improvement?

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With all the franchises that have lived far beyond their original intent, a fun phenomenon pops up when a series has a widely despised entry. Every franchise has one or two entries that sit at the bottom of everyone's list, but when a new rough patch appears, some fans find themselves apologizing to their old favorite punching bag.

Aside from Pokémon, Resident Evil is the video game franchise that has seen the most adaptations to the screen. A series of six films ran from 2002 to 2016, raking in a total of around $1.2 billion which once made it the most profitable horror film series. That series was rebooted last year to modest success. This year, Netflix released its long-awaited loose adaptation of the material.

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Though it might come as a shock to those who saw it, Netflix's 2022 adaptation of Resident Evil sports the highest Rotten Tomatoes score of any live-action adaptation of the franchise. By that metric, the only films that beat it are Resident Evil: Degeneration and Resident Evil: Damnation. While taking the top spot would be somewhat impressive in most situations, its crowning achievement is a rousing 53% critical score. This is less a feat of successful filmmaking than it is a beneficiary of lowered expectations. Every Resident Evil movie received a great deal of understandable pushback from fans of the games and of quality films. The question is, does the new Netflix series fix any of the fundamental issues of the earlier adaptations? There are two ways to judge the work against each other; as adaptations and as standalone works.

Perhaps the repeated failure to make anything decent out of one of the most iconic video game franchises of all time suggests more about