The new Resident Evil movie doesn't seem to have a hook. "From the mind of visionary director Zach Cregger" is not a hook. Weapons had a hook. The entire class went missing, except one boy. The children running with their arms out. That's great trailer iconography. This new trailer has... nothing. There's just no hook. This is the most expensive RE movie ever made and they forgot the cool hook. Remember, "At the beginning the 21s century, the Umbrella Corporation was the largest commercial entity in the United States." That shit slapped. Instant "Oh, what's going on here?" Remember the RE movie trailer that made it look like a romcom. Then shit went sideways. "None of this is real." Great trailer.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJPu1spHqfkIs the new trailer bad? No. It's fine. But there's nothing really interesting about it. It's so generic. And it has no sense of connection to RE, either. The new film has basically no thematic connection to anything that could be considered inspired by the games. The closest thing to politics is a super clunky line where Bryan says, "Your body, your choice" to his girlfriend, which is "Zootopia Porn Redux" waiting to happen.In this film, Umbrella isn't a malevolent corporation whose influence is everywhere. They're just a bunch of idiot scientists. There is no meaning to anything in the film. It feels like Army of the Dead, and it makes sense because it has the same co-writer. That the Netflix RE show, for all its issues, showran by the guy who ran Supernatural into the ground, sincerely understood the core themes of RE better than RE megafan Zach Cregger is insane to me. That show genuinely understood what RE was about politically. It wasn't about zombies literally. It was about how corporations like Umbrella want to turn people into slaves. Joy is a vehicle by which Umbrella seek to remake the world. It's an interesting idea. Novel. It's clearly rooted in the ideas of the games. Execution had issues, but they did try.
I agree with you but I like Barbarian and Weapons enough that I'll give this a watch.It does feel like an original script with the RE name slapped onto it but as a RE fan I'm used to that shit by this point and can judge it as its own thing.It's not like the Netflix series or Welcome to Raccoon City were improved by constantly referencing the games. It just made you compare it to the game and think "wow this is total dogshit".
