Ah, resident evil!
From low-tech horror to sci-fi garbage. It sure is fun to see Chris repeatedly punch a giant boulder, or fight against the law-defiant Wesker in the video games! But it's no secret the franchise has nowhere to go and can only keep chasing its tail with a variation of the same premise! The initial Raccoon incident and exploration of the source of the problem were interesting and different at the time.. Now I'm honestly REALLY tired of these churned out products that amount to nothing!! At least it finally seems like they are connecting the stories somewhat, with reference to events from Vendetta, RE6 and previous game entries. Death Island continues to give a simplistically boring premise, and a continuation of pointless B Stories where the good guys stop a disposable villain that hates the world and makes a new iteration of the "virus".. while ultimately being nothing but a nuisance for a while. Lows takes, repeated stakes!
But worse of all is how insulting it ends up being to me as a viewer. For example :
1. The dialogue being atrocious! And it's very strange to see Jill Valentine groan at Leon's one liners and even insults Chris' heavy handedness. I wonder what the point of that was..
2. The introduction of a foot soldier becoming a trafficking tech-villain capable of creating a new virus that doesn't spread and turns people rather quickly.. except when it doesn't. There's no tension, and repercussions are easily fixed.
3. It was nice to see Maria Gomez again, the powerful killing machine that can't kill anyone. Very representative of the whole thing.
4. An "Avengers moment" with all the known cast in service of nothing, being rather lame to witness.
5. Contrived confrontation with final threat with a convenient Armory around (Plasma Rifle included).
Sure, these continue to be visually impressive (from the models, the movement and the choreographies).. but the line "Looks like us suckers win. Again" being followed by "And they'll keep coming back for more!" was rather depressing. To top it all with "But we sure did kick some ass, didn't we?" was enough to feel like being bullied and kicked in the balls for liking Resident Evil!!
But I'm definitely sure that countries like Svetlana's wagging BOW wars against one another for power.. and for characters to become super powered beings while slugging it out wouldn't be any better. Whoever is in charge of these better change his perspective instead of being considered a joke.
