critically derided “Resident Evil” movies over 14 years, a return trip to Raccoon City wouldn’t be my first pick for a holiday.Yet the reboot of the video-game franchise, called “Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City,” has been given the gift of extremely low expectations.
It’s the first watchable entry in the series. For once, you don’t envy the lucky people who get killed by zombies.The 2002 original, in which star Milla Jovovich’s preferred method for incapacitating the undead was by breaking their necks with her thighs, came out when railing against the man was all the rage.
Green Day’s anti-establishment album “American Idiot” followed it two years later.The timing made sense for a corporate screed, but it resulted in an obnoxiously.
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