Film Review - Resident Evil (2026)

Resident Evil is the new film by Zach Cregger and is based off of the Playstation Video Game series and stars Austin Abrams as Bryan a medical courier who is given a medical crate to transport to Raccoon City General Hospital but en route he comes across people acting strange and his car breaks down due to the snow and he must make his way there on foot and in freezing cold weather while also avoiding zombie like people running after him.

Resident Evil is a lot of fun and really shows Cregger’s growth as a director as the blood and gore on show here is done well and he keeps the pace tight and the tension on a tight leash ready to deploy it at any time plus the film looks great with the ice and snow all around that also is used really well to heighten the horrors that Bryan sees,

And Abrams is very effective as Bryan as well and on a couple of occasions he reminded me a little of Bruce Willis in Die Hard and by that I mean he has that every man quality to him that Bruce had and he handles both the horror and humour very well, Paul Walter Hauser also shows up in a small role and he does good work as well

But where this film does fall down a little is the ending, when it was over I thought “is that it” and it felt a little anti-climactic, no doubt this was done on purpose so Cregger and Co can rattle the penny tin and ask the audience for a sequel down the line and that pisses me off, if you all want a damn sequel how about making the first film work first, it’s not that fucking hard YEESH,

And so that was Resident Evil and it’s a lot of fun despite the ending, 3 and a half out of 5.