Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness Review
The new Resident Evil series is finally out, let's see if it met our expectations and if where Leon brought us this time
The new Resident Evil series dropped just a week ago when this review comes out. Binged watched the weekend it came out, not to hard considering the first season only have four episodes, where each episode is 25-28 min long. Meaning first season is less than 2hr long, which is shorter than many movies coming out these days
Story
First episode start by seeing some army helicopters flying over Penamstan, when suddenly one of the helicopters crash inside the city and you can see the gorillia start closing on the the soldiers. One of the other helicopters housing the Mad Dogs tropes decent down to try to rescue them, even if the general tell them to stand down
Then we cut to Claire Redfield who working as an aid worker Penamstan contry, to help the survivors and come across a little kid who she can't get to talk. She learn that the kid is not able to talk, but notice he has a drawing book. She ask if she can take a look and discovers what the kid have seen, it's a picture of zombie looking creatures
A few years later, there have been hacking attacks on the Whitehouse and Leon S. Kennedy and three more is called in to investigate. While at the briefing with the president, the light suddenly goes off. They go to investigate and is suddenly attacked by zombies. After the Zombies are taken care of, Leon S. Kennedy and three more agents are sent to China to investigate a facility, that believe to be the source
Game storyline
Based on the games storyline, this take place between Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil 5
What's next
Netflix haven't officially renewed the series at the point of writing, but based on Netflix history of renewing anime shows they're producing and how big the Resident Evil franchise is. It would be strange if we didn't at least get a second season, especially based on how they left the ending open for more to come
Considering Castlevania on Netflix also started with only 4 episodes for season 1, then got 8 episodes for season 2 and then 10 episode in the succeeding seasons. I don't see it unlikely that Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness could get more episodes in succeeding seasons as well
Conclusion
The story feels a bitt messy, as it jumps back and fort. It's not as engaging as I would like, but I still watch it all in one go and hoping for more
I think with a longer season, so they can spread it out a bit more it would be better. Now I feel some areas was a bit rushed over to fit it in
If you're an Resident Evil fan, I have no problem recommending to watch the series and I bet you'll like it, but just expect to have a feeling that you expected a bit more when you're done
Tags: #ResidentEvil #Netflix
