After 25 years, seven films, an animated series, and even a live album, it took Zach Cregger, the writer-director behind back-to-back horror standouts, Barbarian and Weapons, to properly adapt Resident Evil, CapCom’s survival-horror videogame franchise, into a live-action film that captured the essential elements that made the CapCom series not just playable, but re-playable: Not just the survival horror elements, of course, but more than that, the unrelentingly suffocating, claustrophobic mood, the personal stakes (survive or die), and the aptly named Umbrella Corporation as a placeholder or symbol for a government-iindustrial alliance that poses a literal existential threat. That's not meant as a knock, of course, on the commercially successful, if otherwise dismissed, six-film series starring Mila Jovovich and (mostly) directed by Paul W.S....
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