Resident Evil movie review - the best video game adaptation of playing a video game
There's a bit somewhere in the middle of the rubbish Doom movie, where the perspective suddenly switches to first-person.
There's a bit somewhere in the middle of the rubbish Doom movie, where the perspective suddenly switches to first-person.
The short version
- Look, it seems to say, it's just like you playing the video game!
- But what Zach Cregger's new Resident Evil movie gets is that, really, it's nothing like me playing the video game.
- Back on my side of the screen, I might be sitting in a digital space marine suit, gliding around gloomy corridors as monsters leap at my face, but I'm certainly not behaving like one.
What happened
I am shrieking; I am cringing, I am swearing; I am fumbling the controller, and I'm firing stray bullets at the roof. And while, yes, I might occasionally allow myself a quick celebrity whoop, the power fantasy is hardly a total one.
Why it matters
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