In multiple scenes resident Evil from netflix, live action he perfectly copies the darkness and gloomy general atmosphere of the game. The camera moves from side to side and closely follows the characters. An obvious glorification of an already classic video game. But also an attempt to reconstruct the unhealthy dialogue with the violence that made him famous. Darkness is everywhere and is shown as just another creature among many that slip and hide throughout the story. Narrative maneuver makes constant efforts to bring the realm of horror out of resident Evil to multiscreen.
In particular, the series attempts to replicate the sense of menace that made its 2020 Resident Evil 3 reboot famous. live action It lacks the power, storytelling fluidity, and ominous feel that the game console version maintains. Vice versa, is a pale copy of more complex products more enduring mythology. Also, the faint idea of the terrifying has become a visual language. It’s surprising that the series failed to convey what made Resident Evil famous. The feeling that the danger lies not only in the inexplicable, but also in the inner darkness of his characters. That his biggest bet is to use the show as a dissonant element that he can’t fully translate into another medium.
In fact, unlike the game, Netflix series – an uninteresting set of clichés, which can not navigate in the most interesting places in the source material. Ironically, a series that struggles to find an identity among the wide variety of content it has to respect has very limited ambitions. All the chapters have an unfinished look, poorly constructed, and hastily at best. A story told in two timelines – current and 2036. they try to show the world hit by disaster. Also the horrors of Umbrella and her dominance in the periphery.
Resident Evil from Netflix is a collection of nonsense
The series does nothing. The current timeline is a mess, built from clips of movies and video games. The future timeline is used without enthusiasm, energy, or much less a convincing version of reality. The result is a string of bugs that surprises with its lack of craftsmanship and frustrating horror perspective building. Again, the end of time is portrayed as inevitable. But instead of being sustained by the horror of a rapidly approaching fate, it is based on the view of foreseeable chance. This is an elementary nuance that transforms resident Evil in a gentle look at the predictable.
Instead of delving into the conspiratorial, extravagant and sinister atmosphere of the game from which it comes, he prefers to analyze his personality in contrast. The result is a bland, confusing, and sometimes ridiculous take on mythology based on its complexity. And especially in his ability to connect lines in an increasingly unsettling twisted world. live action from Netflix directly dispenses with the idea of creating an atmosphere on what is hidden behind Umbrella..
Or even consider an alternative narrative of nightmarish horrors hanging over the world as a result of a cataclysmic event. It’s much more important for the series to sink into the unmistakable feeling that this is a story designed to unsettle. Do it from simple tricks: amplify sounds, turn zombies into useful things. And in the end, in a simple excuse, To create a world that tries to be createdbut fails mediocre.
He fails in every sense of adaptation.
Paul W. S. Anderson completely missed the essence and formula of what makes history resident Evil in his film franchise. On the other hand, the 2021 reboot and several animated series have made a decent attempt to get closer to the universe. resident Evil Netflix can’t just create the idea that the game is an excuse to show all kinds of unnecessary winks and references. Do it by wasting the apocalypse idea ondelve into cheap and simple horror.
Why miss the opportunity to take classic characters and settings to reimagine the story for a wider audience? resident Evil falls into the trap of analyzing the game scenario as an analogous story and builds a reflection on fear on it. But he fails to penetrate deeper, comprehend it, let alone show ingenuity, showing the horror of a world devastated by greed.
For his final chapter resident Evil Netflix has shown that its main goal is to captivate the nostalgic. Or perhaps players who are still waiting for a tribute to quality material and more and more depth. For now, this possibility remains elusive.
