Yes, “Resident Evil” has teen coming-of-age drama elements, something no one has ever associated with this genre and an aspect that feels like a producer wanted to reach a coveted YA audience more than the fans of the games or movies. He’s there with his twin daughters Jade ( Tamara Smart) and Billie ( Siena Agudong), who have to adjust to life in a new part of the world. Wesker has moved to New Raccoon City after the old one was destroyed in an Umbrella cover-up to control an undead pandemic. He was played by Jason O’Mara in “Resident Evil: Extinction” and Shawn Roberts in “Resident Evil: Afterlife” but it’s the great Lance Reddick who steps into the role here, playing him more traditionally as a power player in the world-destroying Umbrella Corporation. In the gaming world, the mastermind behind a lot of the carnage died in “Resident Evil 5” in 2009-the intense action here often recalls that game more than any other, by the way. The main name that will be familiar to “Resident Evil” gamers here will be Albert Wesker, who was first introduced in the original 1996 game as the captain of the Raccoon City Police Department’s Special Tactics and Rescue Service, but his character arc has really changed over the years to represent any nefarious evil pulling the strings.
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Admittedly, it comes to life in bursts, such as an action-packed fourth episode with nods to the series peak “Resident Evil 4,” but it drags its feet between those bursts of explosiveness and seems likely to frustrate both fans of the series and those who’ve never picked up a controller. Of course, it would be fine, even advisable, for the show to carve out its own path between the legacy of the games and the Milla Jovovich films instead of feeling like a copy of either, but the writers here can’t find that road. Cut in two halves, it’s a survivor action film and a teen drama, two genres that won’t feel remotely connected to fans of recent games like “Biohazard” or “ Village”.
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As someone who has played every “RE” game, and reviewed most of them, I was looking forward to a new chapter on Netflix with the launch of the first live-action series based on the hit Capcom games, but the show lacks the personality of its inspiration, content to wallow in familiar TV tropes with only the vaguest connections to the rich mythology of the franchise.
The “ Resident Evil” games and films (at least before the dull “Resident Evil: Welcome to Racoon City”) have inspired each other to greater heights of insanity over the last twenty years.