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Critic consensus
Critical reception for Resident Evil is largely positive, with most reviewers praising Zach Cregger's direction for its bold, video game-faithful approach that blends scares, gore, and unexpected humor into an energetic experience. Austin Abrams' performance also drew repeated commendation across reviews. The most common criticism centers on narrative familiarity and pacing issues, particularly in the second half, with some reviewers noting that the story relies on overly familiar contours and certain sequences drag without adding meaningful tension.
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Constantly hurtling and hurting, bustling and bursting, this adaptation of that much-filmed video game lives up unapologetically to its legacy. And, it happens to be quite a joy(stick) ride with Zach Cregger steering a very good Austin Abrams through a new-virus-outbreak hell.
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Resident Evil may just have found the best film in its franchise, and that too, at the hands of a director unwilling to return to the series. Zach Cregger's new Resident Evil movie is scary, gory, innovative, and surprisingly funny in an homage to the games that is inspired by the bestselling franchise, but not curtailed by its storyline.
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Overall, the 2026 edition of Resident Evil is the best 're' to have happened to the franchise. It's bold, chaotic, funny and a bloody fun ride.
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On the whole, RESIDENT EVIL works due to Zach Cregger's fresh video game-like treatment, Austin Abrams' engaging performance and several well-executed scares. However, a bit of repetition sets in during the second half, with the entire underground drain sequence needlessly dragging the narrative and not adding much to the scare quotient.
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Zach Cregger's Resident Evil delivers a scary, bloody and surprisingly funny ride that mostly gets away with its bold choices. This blend of scares and laughs works so well because this isn't exactly a horror comedy. That is exactly what makes this Resident Evil movie so gripping.
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Austin Abrams Shines In A Visually Stunning Ride That Forgets It’s A Horror Film
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The film understands that horror need not behave itself, and that is its greatest virtue. Beneath the technical polish and creature ingenuity lies a story whose broad contours are familiar. It is an entertaining nightmare, certainly, but not an especially haunting one.
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Resident Evil is a bloody, chaotic and surprisingly funny ride.
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Cregger has genuinely pulled a defining feat here... Resident Evil is one of the rare films to genuinely capture the experience of playing a game without asking you to pick up a controller. It's an extraordinarily difficult sensation to reproduce in cinema, and Cregger gets pretty damn close.
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Austin AbramsBryan
Zach CherryDave
Kali ReisPauline
Paul Walter HauserCarl
Johnno WilsonMax
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