And the only reason I did it was so that I could confirm my suspicions of how terrible it is to Ryan.
(There are no spoilers for Afterlife since it's new and I don't want to ruin it for anyone, it's bad enough to ruin itself for you. But there are spoilers for all the other movies, which everyone has probably seen by now if they were interested in them.)
The first movie...Was okay. Sure, it wasn't based on any particular Resident Evil game, but it still felt like it could fit into the RE universe. And Alice wasn't insanely overpowered. Yeah, there's that whole..Jumping off a wall and kicking dogs in the face thing, but she was probably trained to do that.
In every movie since that one, she's been WAY too powerful. And it's annoying. Look, I know Paul W.S. Anderson was sleeping with Milla Jovovich (and I'm assuming he still is since they have a kid together and they're married), but that doesn't give him an excuse to make the Resident Evil series center around a woman who never existed in any of the games. And to be honest, there's no place for super-human protagonists in this series, whether they're infected with the T-Virus or not. The games feature regular people trying to survive a zombie outbreak. They can't look at a security camera and make a man's eyes start bleeding.
And someone will probably say the movies don't have to follow the games, it's an original story, etc. If you've noticed, I said the first movie was fine. It's everything that came after it that's an issue.
We can start with Carlos. Oded Fehr is an attractive man, he was enjoyable to look at. And that's about it. Carlos...Was nothing like his Resident Evil 3 counterpart. Neither was Nicholai. If I recall correctly, Nicholai was awful in Resident Evil 3, yet for some reason, they decided to turn him into a decent human being in Resident Evil: Apocalypse. And I have to ask, why? Why not just give his character a different name? It doesn't make sense.
Then there's Jill. I never really cared about her one way or the other in the games, but she kind of struck me as a bit of a bitch in Apocalypse. (Sorry for the language, but she did.) She had a completely different personality. Why would you do that? Because Alice is the heroine of the movies and she's the only one who can be nice and perfect and save people? Again, I know you're sleeping with her, but enough is enough.
I can't even find the words to describe what happened to Claire. Chris and Claire are my two favorite Resident Evil characters, and what I saw in these movies was not Claire. Giving her red hair is not enough.
The biggest issue I've seen so far is Nemesis. Nemesis was sent to Raccoon City to destroy STARS members, which is why he's so hard to get rid of in Resident Evil 3, he chases Jill down constantly. But in RE: Apocalypse, for some reason, he was stalking Alice instead. That's not even the part that bothers me. What bothers me is that Nemesis actually HELPS Alice at the end of the movie. You can tell me that this is all fictional and Nemesis wouldn't do or not do something because he's not actually real, but the fact is, in the world of Resident Evil, there's no way that Nemesis is going to become an upstanding citizen. I should know, I was killed by him many, many times in Resident Evil 3. (I know, I know. He used to be Matt. Sorry, but I still don't buy it. Nemesis in the game used to be a human, too. That didn't give him a conscience though, did it?)
Paul W.S. Anderson took a lot of liberties when making these films. I have trouble understanding why he didn't just give them a different title and change the characters' names. They're completely unrecognizable from their counterparts in the games, anyway. It's a shame these films turned out the way they did, I know he's capable of making a decent movie. Event Horizon was great. (Sam Neill is in it. And when I played Dead Space, I immediately thought of that movie. That's a good thing, because Dead Space is incredible.)
I think the only way we'll ever get a decent video game movie (because let's face it, they're all terrible, including Silent Hill [just because it's the best out of all of them, that doesn't make it good]) is if a fan of the game actually makes it. Some low-budget, uploaded-on-YouTube-in-seven-parts movie. Something like this:
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