Most of the action centers around the haunted Spencer Mansion and the run-down Raccoon City police station (designs for both locations are well-crafted). and its evil scientist researcher, William Birkin (Neal McDonough), have been working on a weapon known as the T-virus–something that transforms its victims into highly infectious zombie killing machines, and also causes mutations of bloodthirsty monsters who are capable of much carnage. That something terrible that Claire suspects, turns out to be that the venal Umbrella Corp. Claire feels the Umbrella Corporation hasn’t learned its lesson and is again up to some mischief in its secret underground laboratories.

The young adult Claire Redfield (Kaya Scodelario) has returned home by hitchhiking to the dying company town of Raccoon City to warn her estranged brother Chris (Robbie Amell), a noted police detective and someone she was raised with in the orphanage, that she has word that something horrible is about to happen there even if she doesn’t know what that is. When that evil is unleashed, a group of heroic survivors must work together to uncover the truth behind Umbrella’s nefarious research projects and fight to survive in the frightful night that results. But when the company suspiciously left town it left behind a wasteland… with great evil stirring below the surface. It once was the humming residence of the Big Pharma giant Umbrella Corporation. Raccoon City is now a dying Midwestern town. Instead it fills the screen with too many wearisome genre clichés.

The reboot goes overboard on the atmosphere part and jump scares, but does little on character development or to devise a coherent plot that makes much sense.

This version, a mediocre one, set one night in 1998, is expected to play to a new generation of fans for the popular series but works out probably not in the way the studio expected. The action horror B-film by writer-director Johannes Roberts (“47 Meters Down”/”The Other Side of the Door”) is a reboot desperately trying to get back to its franchise’s gaming roots (a six-film series - beginning in 2002). “ Fills the screen with too many wearisome genre clichés.“ Kennedy), Neal McDonough (William Birkin), Donal Logue (Chief Brian Irons), Marina Mazepa (Lisa Trevor) Runtime: 107 MPAA Rating: R producers Robert Kulzer, James Harris, Hartley Gorenstein: A Sony/Screen Gems release 2021) (director/writer: Johannes Roberts screenwriter: story by Roberts cinematographer: Maxime Alexandre editor: Dev Singh music: Mark Koryen cast: Kaya Scodelario (Claire Redfield), Robbie Amell (Chris Refield), Hannah John Kamen (Jill Valentine), Tom Hopper (Albert Wesker), Avan Jogia (Leon S.

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