If you were to ask me to give you a detailed rundown of every film in the franchise I would not be able to do so, since I would not know to what movie in the franchise what I'm writing, at the time would belong to. Something about Umbrella and the T-Virus and fighting zombies. All of the films look and feel the same and, thematically, they are very similar. I swear to you that all of these films blend together and there are absolutely no distinguishable differences. From a story perspective, honestly, I have no idea what's going on at any time, in the entirety of the franchise I mean. The thing is, this movie is still, technically speaking, bad. I realize that's not the best way to start a review, but this is where we are and you're just gonna have to deal with it. Having said that and maybe it's because I was in a more forgiving mood given the events of this past week, but this could have been considerably worse. So, while these movies kinda suck, you can see why they keep pumping them out.
That means that the worldwide gross was almost ELEVEN times that of the domestic. Case in point, this movie made $26 million domestic and $285 million worldwide. And, honestly, these movies are made for the international markets. But, for horror, not many franchises cross these numbers. So just one movie almost doubled the entirety of the gross by this entire franchise. That's obviously nothing for a film like, say, Infinity War which has grossed something like $2 billion worldwide. The six movies, in total, have gross $1.2 billion worldwide. And, as much as it pains me to say, it has led to this actually being one of the most commercially successful horror franchises of all time, on a worldwide basis at least. But, realistically speaking, an action-horror movie is a better sell than the alternative.
I hate that the franchise is more about the generic action than truly compelling and effective horror. So, yes, but the thing is that what works in games might not necessarily work in film. And, from what I understand, it did very well commercially and creatively. The sixth game being such a commercial and creative disappointment forced Capcom to regroup and put out a game that, while considerably different from any RE game out there, felt more in tune with its horror roots. An approach that, outside of RE 4, which was revolutionary for its time and, even then, that game mixed horror and action perfectly, had mixed results with fans. While, until the seventh game which, ironically, came out earlier the same week this movie was released, returned to the franchise's survival-horror roots, the video game franchise was heading towards a more action-heavy approach. But I just never felt that the fact that the movie is so heavy on action with, really, very few elements of horror made for a good combination. So I'm not super hardcore into it, but I know enough to get by.
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Those are the three that come to mind, main series at least. For those interested, I've played RE 2, 4 and 5. I grew up a gamer and I've played a few of them.
Of course I'm familiar with the Resident Evil games. I think it should be obvious, for those who follow my reviews on RottenTomatoes (and, really, why would you?) that I've never been the biggest fan of this film franchise and the last film in the franchise, prior to this one, being eviscerated by yours truly. How this happens I don't know, but it is what it is. They'll keep pumping out these movies, somehow, even after the world have been destroyed and we're all dead and gone. Sort of like how I feel about the Ice Age franchise, as well. Part of me always thought that this franchise would never end.
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