The first 'Resident Evil' sequel walks a fine line between linking up with the events of its predecessor and being nothing at all like it. We're also about to spoil the whole series, so if that bothers you, proceed with caution! The results are, we think, fairly representative of the franchise as a whole. We've averaged the critics' and audience score for every 'Resident Evil' movie and used those numbers to rank them from worst to best.

They are, in short, a collection of entertaining individual stories so different from one another that coming up with a set of criteria to compare them is an exercise in futility.Īnd so, we turn to Rotten Tomatoes. Anderson and Jovovich, who got married between the third and fourth films. Yet they also have the feel of a decade-spanning passion project between writer-director-producer Paul W.S. With a half-dozen installments that feel increasingly disconnected from one another, these movies can, at their worst, appear to be a soulless attempt to squeeze as much money as possible from an intellectual property that's already past the sell-by date. Their star, Milla Jovovich, plays the same female protagonist in six straight movies, yet you'd never hold up 'Resident Evil' as an example of outspoken or progressive filmmaking. How will history judge the 'Resident Evil' films? What standards would you even use? They've made more at the box office than any other cinematic adaptation of a video game, yet they have almost nothing in common with the games they're based on.

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