RESIDENT EVIL Live Action Retrospective & Ranking [Residecember Evil]

How would you rank the RE movies?

Fan of the games my butt. Anderson's trash movies are proof that he is no fan at all of resident evil. You are entitled to your opinion about the Anderson movies and your video is sold as gold but I need to disagree with you on the Anderson movies being good. Most fans agree that all his RE movies are atrocious. You say to not really compare them to the games but they are resident evil movies so you really have no choice but to compare them to the games.

They could definitely do a new RE adaptation starting from RE4. It was set way after the original trilogy games, Umbrella is practically non existent at that point, and so are the virus made zombies. Could be a rescue movie turned into survival-action horror. With only some mentions about the previous things. Like 'Leon survived some seriously haunting things but he rather not talk about it' type mentions.

Or if they want to start it from the beginning again, RE1 has a solid enough story for that. Let's start it on the helicopter, Predator movie style, getting the briefing about Bravo team going missing after going to investigate the weird mansion outside the city. Then the landing, zombie dogs, separation. Jill, Barry and Wesker entering from the front, and Chris separately from some side window, and soon after meeting Rebecca. We could follow all of them, should be enough characters for a movie. Dividing up the plot points between the two mains, but of course toning back the very video gamey puzzles. Have the scenes of Chris saving Rebecca from the Hunter, and Barry saving Jill before she turns into a sandwich. Let Chris fight Yawn while Jill going outside to meet Lisa in that shack. Learning there's a traitor in the STARS team, having enough events for the viewers to doubt both in Barry and Wesker, yet not completely. Have Chris and Rebecca go to the Guardhouse, kill the plant, but get knocked out after and locked away. I'd cut out the aqua ring area with the sharks and the tunnel with the giant spiders, those are just a bit silly for a movie. Then Jill going down the laboratory, finding out Chris and Rebecca is alive, basically Jill endgame. Maybe have a post credit scene of Wesker escaping the mansion before it blows up. I'm pretty convinced it could work as a solid movie.

I put off watching WTRC because the reviews. I recently watched it and really liked it. I’m in the odd man out category I know.

Good old fashioned Netflix race swap.

I think Extinction is when the RE movies hit their stride, when it pretty much became it own thing instead of a direct adaption of the game. Afterlife is probably my favorite of the series.

Holy crap, you pronounced Mila's last name correctly! That is rare.

I totally disagree with this ranking. I really like Welcome To Raccon City and Apolaclypse!

1 = Apolaclypse.
2 = RE1
3 = Welcome To Raccon City
4 = Afterlife
5 = Retribution
6 = Extinction
7 = Final Chapter
8 = Netflix

Big gap between the last 3 and everything else.

Hey Matt Draper which one would you say has the most and best action?

I enjoyed welcome to raccoon city. Its more faithful to the games but has its own problems

I PREFER THE CGI ANIMATED FILM FRANCHISE OF THE SAME CAPCOM VIDEO GAME SERIES STARRING LEON KENNEDY AS THE MAIN PROTAGONIST ESPECIALLY THE ORIGINAL YET UNRELEASED SCRIPT BY THE LATE HORROR FILM DIRECTOR GEORGE A. ROMERO... NOT THE HILARIOUSLY BAD LIVE-ACTION FILMS BY THE INFAMOUS FANFIC MOVIE DIRECTOR PAUL W.S. ANDERSON & IT'S NETFLIX TV ADAPTATIONS, LOL! 🎮📝🎬🎥📺👎😂

Resident Evil: The Final Chapter is the WORST Video Game Adaptation Ever Made

If Sienna Guillory as Jill Valentine & Ali Larter as Claire Redfield were both in Resident Evil Movies than it would've been alittle better

I appreciate that you give these movies a fair shake. I think they're dreadful, but I like that you can look at them objectively and remark on story, characters, and visuals rather than just bitching that they aren't like the games.

It’s not the movies are bad but that it has ZERO to do with Resident Evil

Man, we definitely differ on our feelings about live action RE. Lol

rewatching them now, completely agree with this ranking
overhated movies

This movies are the definition of guilt pleasure.

Hell yeah KSE

They are fun films to watch. Some of them are better than others but none of them are super bad.

Sadly the resident evil movies went to hell real fast.

I don’t think there’s anything in existence that could convince me these are good films.

Sorry were you taking? Milla Jovovich was on screen.

Really enjoyed your perspective on these films and the respect you had to the Milla Jovovich era. Regardless of its faithfulness to the source material I think that the film's represent fun and it's interesting that it lasted as long as it did given that so many female-led superhero films in the mid-2000s were cancelled and these films prevailed and for the most part were massive success at the box office. I wish this would have translated into Milla Jovovich being a bigger star she doesn't get the respect she deserves either in my opinion

I am the only person in the world who likes wtrc ama

netflix version was straight shit

i enjoyed the movies because i dont play the games

I think it's a shame that Jill was relegated to supporting character in Apocalypse. Sienna Gullery genuinely put in the work and research to bring the Jill Valentine from the games into the big screen. The footage you uploaded of her showed the way she walks, her standing position and mannerisms, all from the game. She deserved better.

I hate pretty much all these movies after the first two. The only ones I had any enjoyment with were Resident Evil Apocalypse (favorite) and Resident Evil. The rest can go in the trash bin, imo.

1. Resident Evil (2002)
2. Resident Evil: Extinction
3. Resident Evil: Apocalypse
4. Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City
5. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
6. Resident Evil: Retribution
7. Resident Evil: Afterlife

Dude, you were cracking me up with your dismantling of Raccoom City🤣. I do love the Milla Jovovich movies, uneven as they are, with Extinction being my fave. She carries it all, and does so with effortless charisma💪🏼

Another thing woefully and glaringly missing from the series is A RESIDENCE. They dropped the whole mansion that the game is named after. So, where the hell does the "resident" part come in?? That was actually probably my biggest disappointment from the start.

When I first saw RE I liked it but felt a little let down with how much it focused on the sci-fi instead of zombie horror. The first game was the scariest video game I'd ever played. When I first saw Apocalypse I liked it much better as it felt more like a zombie movie. I gave RE * and RE2 **
Upon second viewings, RE grew on me and RE2 dropped to a ***.

Only the 1st and 2nd One. With the 2nd One being the best...

I know RE2 Apocalypse is trash but it's such comfort food for me. It's my favorite of the franchise lol

I saw Afterlife in theaters in 3D and admit I was impressed by the visuals. Anderson shoots action well. But I think he's a terrible writer. I only really like the 1st movie, and the 3rd, Extinction. Everything else has been abysmal. And then, somehow, Welcome to Raccoon City, and the Netflix series managed to be even worse! Resident Evil's inability to have a good adaptation, will be one of pop culture's great mysteries. The CG movies are all we have...

Welcome to Raccoon City was better

Honestly, I really like every RE movie. I liked parts of the Netflix show, but probably only a quarter of it.

I always saw Paul W.S. Anderson as a James Cameron tribute act (Retribution especially) but was so surprised to hear James Cameron say "Resident Evil" was one of his guilty pleasure films. And he's not wrong, the first film is beautiful!

I’m more inclined to watch Welcome To Raccoon City more readily than the Anderson films, for the exception of the first Resident Evil.

I can say the first one was okay, the second one was fine except for the fast camera cuts, the fourth one was kinda okay for me. The rest was meh.

The CGI films are better.

Resident Evil should have stopped at 2. It actually felt like the games, sans Nemesis of course. The rest should have been a new zombie series and it would have been better for it. Milla Jovovich helming her own franchise would have better for her.

Welcome to raccoon city was so bad that i dont even remember watching it . And the netflix was so bad i was so happy it got cancelled. And whats so damn hard to make a re movie. Just copy the first damn game. Goto the mansion do some puzzles fight a few bosses then tease the 2nd movie from re2.

I love the Resident Evil games so much and it pains me how they never gave us a faithful and well made movie (RE: Welcome to RC was executed terribly). However, I did enjoy RE: Apocalypse and the 1st Anderson Resident Evil, the former being the closest to any RE game. Someone in a different video commented that these films are Anderson's expensive foreplay with Jovovich and I totally see it lol. Music is on point though.

Man you really must have enjoyed wesker throwing his sunglasses at you A LOT more than I did.

The editing to the last chapter is horrible and makes the film virtually unwatchable for me.