To paraphrase an aphorism I really have no place paraphrasing, “A Resident Evil movie is a terrible thing to waste.” Even though time would prove that Resident Evil would somehow become Hollywood’s most prolific video game adaptation franchise, it’s not hard to put yourself in the 2002 headspace of someone seeing Paul W. S. Anderson’s Resident Evil, a movie whose relationship to the source material can only be described as “cordial,” and feeling like it blew the chance to take the cool settings and characters from the games and adapt them. Alack! We wasted a Resident Evil movie! But, hey.…
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