Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City: Review
The final hours of Racoon City are upon us, can uncover the mysteries and we escape in time?
Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City is a movie adaption of the video game franchise Resident Evil and story is based around the two first video games
Welcome to Raccoon City
Story starts up with Clair and Chris Redfield as kids in an orphanage in Racoon City, after their parents passed away. Umbrella has it's headquarters in Racoon City and the city is thriving. Umbrella is even running the cities orphanage
During the night at the orphanage, Clair gets visited by Lisa Trevor, who have visited her many times during her sleep and she's been the only one to see her. The others think she's just imagining things
Jump forward to present day and Clair hikes a ride back to Racoon City with a truck driver, to investigating what Umbrella is really up to. On the way there, the truck driver hits someone going into the road. They go outside to check on the person, but person is dead. While talking on what to do, the person is suddenly gone
Meanwhile in Racoon City, Leon S. Kennedy have just transferred in and joined RPD (Racoon Police Department), together with among other Albert Wesker, Jill Valentine and Chris Redfield. Police officer Brian Irons sent them out on a helicopter towards Spencer Mansion, to investigate what happened to Bravo team, while rookie Leon was put in the reception
Movie VS Video Games
Resident Evil (Biohazard in Japan, where it originated from), is first and foremost a video game franchise. Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City is not the first live action adoption of the franchise, but it feels like the most fateful
You get the story arc from the first movie, where they enter Spencer Mansion looking for Bravo team and get to experience a lot of what happened in the video game. They even included the piano puzzle scene from the video game (even if Albert Wesker cheated a bit)
Parallel you have the story arc from the second game, with Leon and Claire in Racoon city. Going through the RPD, the truck coming crashing in
There's also lots of easter eggs for fans of the video game franchise, that can be spotted through out the movie
Verdict
It's refreshing to see a new fairly faithful take on this famous video game series. Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City stays close to the video games source, but at the same time makes some necessary adjustments to allow for good pacing and tying the first two games into one movie
This movie have more focus on suspense, than straight out action and it suits the story well. Even if you're not familiar with the Resident Evil games, you'll still enjoy the movie
Our verdict: Check it out!
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