“This movie is made for the fans” Proceeds to change virtually everything about RE1 and RE2.

The disappointment began when they thought Carlos was Leon.

Quick note: the Redfields have always been orphans. That was part of the reason Claire dropped everything to go look for her brother: he was all she had left. But Chris was old enough to look after his sister as a legal guardian when their mother died. So putting them in an orphanage was still very much out of place

I love the fact that Jill & Sherry simply exist for no other reason than fanservice in the movie.

The Leon casting alone is unforgivable

Making leon an idiot just ruined everything

When a movie can't manage something as simple as the casting, you know its gonna be a waste of time.

Cracked me up when the tanker exploded right outside the door while Leon was asleep listening to Jennifer Paige and that flaming zombie rocked up.

They made Leon so fuqn incompetent, indecisive, and weak. Yes, he was a green-horn-rookie-cop in RE2. But he was confident, strong, and dependable.

The only good Resident Evil movie we’re going to get are the cut scenes in the game. Congrats Drinker on 1 million subs.

When I first saw the movie and got to the part where Wesker appears for the first time, I was like "THAT is Wesker? Seriously?! Are you fking kidding me?!" And Leon was just atrocious and straight up horrible in this movie. They did our agent boi dirty.

I think the best part of the movie was when Chris was in the dark and using the light from his gun to make out the zombies, and then running out of ammo to use his knife. Who ever wrote that part deserves to be recognized. If this flick was mostly like that; it would've been such a great film.. bummer.

Leon changed to be more "dIveRsivE" was already my red flag

I remember binge watching the original 6 movies and thinking to myself "there is no way the next one can be worse than this one" and I was wrong EVERY. SINGLE. TIME

Everyone involved in the film should have been required to finish all of the RE on high difficulty. Thay would weed out all these issues.

I'd say Chris's actor was an excellent fit, but I can't say the same for virtually any other character.

When Drinker opens with “Jesus wept,” you know you’re going to need a drink.

To quote a friend, "it looks like it was made by people who played the games, not by people who loved them."

Leon's casting sucked, so did Claire's. And their reactions and mannerisms were completely altered for the worse. I wonder if it's possible to unsee a movie.

Where's Barry? Why's Leon a dummy? Why is Leon not Leon? Why is Wesker an aloof peon? What's with Claire's demeanor? Who was that S.T.A.R.S guy who died? Why?

I love how this “movie for the fans” basically combines the plots of RE1 and RE2 for no reason, makes the characters look almost unrecognizable to the source material, has CGI that makes the original 2002 film look good, and practically treats Leon like a bumbling moron. Those critics don’t get what the real fans want.

''A film that tries to do two movies in one but got budget to sustain neither'' this is the perfect phrase to summarize the movie.

I cant forgive them for what they do to recast jill valentine , let alone leon

The casting in this movie is absolutely unforgivable.

Studio Exec: So you want to make a Resident Evil movie? Director: Yep, I think i can do it justice Exec: OH good. Which game are you going to base it on? Director: what games?

The movies were basically the director showing off his wife, nothing else

It isn't about making something creative, or great. It's about crushing everything that you love and enjoy. It's about destroying the characters that you love, draining the joy out of each and every escape that you've ever loved.

The word 'fan' is a dirty word for Hollyweird, whenever they say its for the fans they have no interest in using established characters unless they are changing them beyond recognition. Its basically them telling you; "You better like this movie or your not a real fan and this is how I envisage it!" Followed by the usual name calling for anyone daring to criticize their awful adaptation.

Oh cool they had Carlos in this. …that’s leon actually.. THAT’S LEON?! Did you ever SEE a resident evil game wtf?!

In defense of RE Veronica, the cross dressing mad man shooting at me with a rifle was terrifying when I first played it

The most frustrating part is seeing the places that look almost a 1:1 copy of the locations and monsters in the game with everything around those two things being completely ruined by everything else in the movie

The problem I have with Leon in this film is the actor looks a lot more like Carlos than he does Leon, so all I can think about while watching him is that he's Carlos cosplaying as Leon.

Sylvester Stalone singing was the most horrific thing I've ever seen.

I like how they thought that if you questioned the casting of Leon and Jill you'd somehow be a phobe of sorts but no! That didn't happen because the millions of resi fans all felt the same way that it was fucking ridiculous!

01:54 almost breaking out in laughter when saying "maybe they had learnt from their mistakes" 🤣😂

They cast an Indian to play Leon for woke points but forgot that women are on top of the 'oppression' pecking order so they just made Leon into an idiot anyway to make Claire good

The casting on jill and leon is a crime.

At this point I've given up on supporting the Hollywood industry, its best we save whatever original movies/shows that are left and to make sure incompetent Directors/Producers/Writers/ etc... can't get their hands on them by making sure they cannot get into positions as film butcher's. Cinematography is dead, to many lazy remakings of someone else's ideas and not much thinking going into making something original.

You know, I've been a huge RE fan ever since the first game came out on PS1. When the first Resident Evil movie came out, I was stoked, only to watch it and walk out the theatre scratching my head wondering how the fuck did the writers and the director fuck that up so bad. Every RE movie since then was just an even worse adaptation of the series. Only the animated Capcom movies were decent so far. Then there was this new Resident Evil that came out. After seeing the trailers I was thinking we might finally get a real RE movie...sorta, because I noticed certain actors didn't fit any characters that I knew. Well this welcome to raccoon city movie sucked major monster balls to say the least. Leon was an idiot and a moron throughout most of the movie and he's played by that damn hippie from zombieland, which makes no fricken sense. Leon is supposed to be a bad ass and from playing the RE2 remake, he's even more of a bad ass than he was in the original RE2. Claire's character just had one kind of reaction and mood throughout the whole movie. Then there's Jill, Jill is supposed to be a sexy bad ass cop but instead is played by a non white privileged chick who doesn't even come close to fitting the role by any means, I thought the chick from RE apocalypse who played Jill Valentine was a good match, but I digress. And somehow with a story that's as good as what the first 3 RE games had, they practically crammed all three together minus nemesis to completely fuck it all up and completely ruin the RE name in the movie business. You know, Dead Pool was a low budget film and look how good that was, Evil Dead was a low budget film and Bruce Campbell was a b rated actor and look what came of that series. I can go watch fan made films of Michael Myers and these films are extremely low budget, yet are hundred times better than any of the RE movies to date. I can't believe Sony even put their name on that shit. I'd fire every one of those fricken writers and directors and never look back. What we need is Blumhouse to get John Carpenter and someone from CapCom to come in and write the fricken story, and direct an actual RE movie us fans truly deserve. We also need actors who fit the role to the character they are playing. I think if it had a good story line, fitting actors to the characters, and a decent budget, holy shit, we'd might actually see a real RE that's actually good.

It's bad enough they casted someone who doesn't look like Leon, but to reduce him to an idiot? Who doesn't even know how a shotgun works? Just make Claire look way better in comparison?! That's just so wrong. Leon deserved better.

The moment I found out the words “Welcome To” were in the title of the movie I knew what it was going to be. Garbage.

Correction. Chris and Claire were orphans, but they didn’t have connections to Umbrella. Hell, I’m not even sure they lived in Raccoon City before Chris became a STARS officer.

Yes!! I've been waiting for this.

I feel like he's been dying to make that Sylvester joke for a long time. Lol.

I just don't understand what is so hard about making Resident Evil 1 and Resident Evil 2 into a movie duopoly. The first movie can be a tense, atmospheric horror movie set in the Spencer Mansion and creepy surrounding woods. The second movie is more action orientated in Racoon City, ending with exposure and collapse of Umbrella and an end to the crisis. It's like a game of 'the floor is lava' but it's 'the floor is success' that these writers, directors and execs play.

This movie was so frustrating, it had some cool "it follows" "the guest" and "army of the dead", and the special effects where a hit or miss, no consistency. They should've gotten the director of Overlord...

I've watched most of the RE animated series and while I have reservations about some, they're at least faithful to the original story. Now if only we could get a story focusing on Leon and Ada and just what exactly is between the two of them. The games always hint at an underlying trust and affection while the movies never seem to have them interact long enough to get interesting.

The weirdest thing is that the Resident Evil story, especially in the first three, is actually really solid. You could make that three movies just by going beat by beat through the games and just showing the things as they happened. You could streamline some of the running back and forth, but just going through the main parts, showing some puzzles, etc. would be awesome.

The funny thing of the games that covered the " Raccon City arc", is that the plot was created by Japanese developers, based from horror and sci-fi american movies.

So one thing I found oddest about the Milla Jovovich films is they make Umbrella out to be this megacorp that runs everything behind the scenes when in the games they didn’t survive past the events of raccoon city, after that it’s all about cleaning up after them been forcefully shut down (it’s almost like needing to nuke a city on mainland USA will attract some negative attention) now yes a lot of the board will likely get off Scott free but the Company, it’s assets and any research will have been Will have been seized by the US government (at leat all that was on the books, this leads to that spending years cleaning up that even by RE8 is still a mess)

This movie is a perfect example of how casting alone can ruin a movie.

Just watched the film and it was like watching the deleted scenes from a mini series. The set designer had obviously played the games, but I don't think that the writer or director had.

It's amazing how the ps1 live action cutscene is the best movie we have of resident evil

the cow lifting off had me on the ground!!! lolol

You summed up your entire video in the first 33 seconds congratulations. 👏🏻

Having this come out around the same time as Arcane is like a night and day comparison of what you should and shouldn't do when making a video game adaptation.

The WS Anderson movies were "In Name Only" not entirely due to the director messing things up, but mainly due to Capcom. They banned him from EVER using any plot point or storyline from the games and just allowed him to use a couple of game characters outside of what they did in the game franchise. This is why the movies very quickly veered off from the Franchise's timeline. With all the restrictions placed upon him, I'm actually surprised they were "as good" as they were and just somewhat enjoyable dumb popcorn flicks.

I just cannot believe they had the bar set so low and still managed to fuck it up

I needed this, I haven’t had a good laugh I’m a long time.

Resident evil not getting a decent movie is really disappointing. Translating a horror game into a movie is probably the easiest possible game to work with compared to a RPG or any other genre. Yet they always manage to make them not really scary some how. Relying on jokes and quips, but not actually being funny enough to be a comedy. But the main issue always remains they want to do a RE movie, without paying any attention to the plot and characters the setting they are taking over. If they wanted a generic horror movie, make one. Don't slap the RE title on it.

The Mila Jovovich movies are a guilty pleasure and it's actually a good thing that they didn't follow the RE plot/lore so they're fine as straight-to-DVD, background noise. Interestingly we're living in an era where most content is pro-feminist/strong female movies that fail to recognize the RE series, Underworld and so forth that came out in the past two decades. Makes you wonder what really is going on these days? 🤔

I thought Neal Mcdonough was actually a great choice as William Birkin. He looks enough like him and he's got the blonde hair, but more importantly he's really good at unhinged villains. He was just ruined in the writing.

2:08 There's something poetic about that Leeloo laugh in a Resident Evil movie review

How did you like amazing depiction of Leon ? I loved the scene where Claire showed him how to use a shotgun. I also enjoyed every scene where he got insulted and fell down on his ass just to be saved by kickass Claire that looks like she could be his mother. Consider my expectations shattered !

The worst part is Chris still didn’t get Leon to continue the Redfield lineage

I love that I can look at this thumbnail and not recognize even a single person as the character they're supposed to be portraying.

All they had to do was make the first game into a movie. There wasn’t even a Tyrant in the movie. How does that happen. It’s why Stars was betrayed

Hollywood never learns.

Chris was the only casting choice that I was okay with but nothing will make me be okay with Leon being a dark haired comic reliefs sidekick with a kill score is 2 and 0.

Thanks for mentioning the Capcom animated movies because… well… I thought I was the only person that saw all of them 🤦‍♀️

Christ this is the funniest content I have had the pleasure to come across in years - goddamn I have seen good delivery but goddamn if every single video isnt uniquely hilarious.

"Don't blame a clown for acting like a clown. Blame yourself for going to the circus." y'all have to stop watching these sjw movies, so that they finally dry out.

the anger i felt when they weren't chased into wesker's mansion by zombie dogs

I legit saw the trailer and was like why is clair running around with Carlos?

Barry and rebecca escaped being cast in this disastrous movie!!!

I have undying nostalgia for one of the resident evil movies that feels a lot like the beginning of dawn of the dead remake

The funniest thing was that the sign for the police department says "RPD Raccoon Police" not "RPD Raccoon City Police Department". Ahhh the good old raccoon police..

They learned from previous mistakes only to make some new ones.

2:34. OMG!!! That Stallone clip is hilarious!!! WTF was he thinking?! My biggest problem with the Paul Anderson movies was what Drinker mentioned. Barely keeping up with the plot from movie to movie. Introducing a concept in one movie and ignoring it in the next. Biggest example, to me, was in RE: Afterlife (The 4th one). Alice is supposed to be this genetically enhanced soldier, right. Then, Albert Wesker gives her an injection that kills the T-Virus within her. Making her human. Yet, nothing changed. She was still strong, agile and impervious to pain.

The casting for Leon is as accurate as the one for Triss in Netflix’s Witcher

I would have cast Tom as Chris before ever even considering him as Wesker

Alfred's laugh from Code Veronica is the greatest thing ever

It baffles me how on a regular speedrun it takes you around an hour or so to complete a game, and that's ignoring every cutscene, text, extra stuff you can find. How the hell do they think they can mush together two games at the same time and explain anything about what's going on and why? Specially if it's 1 + 2, instead of 2 and 3 which take place at the same time. What hurts more is that the people who made this film are aware of the source material. Evident by Lisa's design, the poker-shaped keys, the truck driver intro, birkin's mutation (although the cgi for the final scene was horrible), Itchy tasty reference and Jill's stupid question about what's worse, to be eaten by a giant shark or a giant snake just to have Richard die by regular zombies... The ashford twins actually look like they appear in the game however Sherry who didnt have a race change, couldn't bother to actually atleast give her short blonde hair... Leon's casting and portrayal was horrible. It's nothing new at this point for movies to do their dumb inclusion and change racial features of white characters but they made him look like the most laziest stupid dude to ever exist. Leon was a rookie but he wasn't incompetent, surely has a lot of plot armor and cheesy one liners but not stupid/lazy. I really don't get why this film was made. I watched it with my family and they were confused as to what's going on and as a fan of the games im confused as to why they made the movie like this. Some stuff is pinpoint accurate-looking from the games but half of the casting isnt? And putting the casting issues aside combining two games into one story is a bad idea. Like I said if they wanted to combine games so badly they could've done 2 and 3 together.

I hadn't thought about it before, but you're right: their inability to make a decent Resident Evil movie* is bizarre. Everything they need is already right there. Obviously there are some pacing issues to reconcile as you distill several hours of game down to two hours of movie, as Drinker pointed out, but it's not like building tension in movies is some unknowable secret. For some reason, though, having an IP like Resident Evil to work with causes directors to just have a sudden rush of shit to the brain. *A decent _live-action_ RE movie, anyway. The CGI ones are all right.

Congrats to your 1 Million subscriber milestone. You deserve it.

The movie had potential and there were moments where I saw that there was something somewhere in this thing, but then it was gone in a cgi splatter.

my lil brother and i used to watch the animated versions on repeat when we were kids

I was so excited to see a badass live version of Leon and Jill. But then I was disappointed immediately. If they wanted to be more diverse they could've just added extra characters, but kept the originals the same.

The “go away now” part gets me every time, it’s like I am a 7 y.o. who listens to the drunken ramblings of my emotionally unavailable, alcoholic father.

Just gotta love this one for the "Dunfermline nightclub" thing alone ...

That movie was a lot of fun! It took me a little while to realize it was one of those so bad it's hilarious kinds of movies. Sometimes one character is talking a lot, going from topic to topic, and it's like someone is clicking through their dialogue tree! Hilarious.

The Drinker is right. Getting the RE franchise should be like getting handed the "Can't Fail U Build It Movie Kit (horror/thriller edition).

Congrats on the 1 million!

Next merch idea... Critical Drinker Style Bark Box

The fact they decided to change the entirety Leon who is one of the most popular character in resident evil franchise and thought it would work is just mind boggling.

2:55 "Chris and Claire in the world's worse orphanage, directed by mad scientist William Birkin" AAANND that's where I already know how shitty this going to be.

Doom is another "slam dunk" that they keep fucking up.

Get your order in before Christmas. Neglects to mention it will have to be a present for Christmas 2022.

all the chief irons scenes were what made this movie for me. the guy could have been the whole movie. lol

As soon as I saw "Leon" and some of the "special effects", I knew this movie was going to blow ass. Everything nowadays is fucking disappointing and tiring. Except for the plushie, that looks cool.