Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, an adaptation of Capcom’s survival horror video-game series of the same name, is a bad film, but so were all the previous movies in the franchise. In fact, video-game movies, generally, stink. The expression “a video-game movie” has become synonymous with poor quality.
The reason is rarely the lack of budget, as studios usually pour millions of dollars in the production and rarely earn profit. Welcome to Raccoon City cost $25 million, which is not a lot of money for a recognised intellectual property. Sony was clearly dubious of the success of the undertaking but allowed it as something of an experiment.
Even such worthy attempts as Tomb Raiders or Assassins Creed are, at best, sub-standard, if they use video-games as their source material. The most recent Tomb Raider (2018) was based on action-adventure series of games and rebooted…
