With the Anderson/Jovovich sextet of Resident Evil films concluded, here comes a new dingy and sweary reboot with the intention of authenticity to the games, as Claire Redfield returns to a near-deserted and almost-abandoned Raccoon City just as the T-virus manifests itself in the remaining population. The action is set over one night with a ticking-clock deadline, which helps to generate what little tension there is. The film is relentlessly obvious in its deliberate 1990s stylings, but unfortunately this also applies to the overworn genre trappings and offers little that is new, although one late sequence does manage to capture the relentlessness and claustrophobia of the early videogames. It is reasonably cast - Kaya Scodelario and Robbie Amell as the Redfields and Tom Hopper as proto-Wesker are reliable - but in spite of an optimistically sequel-baiting mid-credits sequence, on this showing this take on the franchise is not too promising.
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