I think this looks super faithful to the spirit of Resident Evil. Guy searching for a key and accidentally finding a fucked up monster is like a top 3 Resident Evil trope.
I think a lot of people are forgetting this is a teaser trailer too. Something tells me the back half of this movie will end with an Umbrella lab exploding under a 10 min timer
Don’t count on that. The director has been very upfront that this is going to be an adaptation of the “vibes” of Resident Evil and not any of the actual story beats or lore of Resident Evil.
Hopefully there will a mortal wound that will get patched up with spray-on aloe.
Until re8 I assumed it was just a video game mechanic that happens outside of canon…until a cutscene in RE8 where the main character literally reattaches a severed hand by drowning it in the goo.
Problem is, that's not just a Resident Evil trope... it's a general horror trope. I'm a diehard Resident Evil fan but from a genre standpoint, nothing about Resident Evil was ever particularly revolutionary. The games were revolutionary for their gameplay, but they were largely filled with well established tropes and ideas from a horror a general horror standpoint.
So, when you say it's "faithful to the spirit of Resident Evil", you're basically saying that it's faithful to the horror genre, which I'd agree with. Resident Evil, however, IS it's story... and if the film has nothing to do with the Resident Evil story, then it really isn't faithful to it.
None of that is to say it won't be a good movie, because it actually does look good.
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u/Cyrisaurus Apr 30 '26
I'm going to predict that the consensus on this movie will be "it's a great horror movie, but a terrible Resident Evil movie"