What is the adaptation of “Resident Evil” worth on Netflix?

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series seems far from unanimous with critics and fans alike.

Directed by Andrew Dabb, this eight-episode series is the latest adaptation of Capcom's game, which premiered in 1996.

The action is divided into two timelines: an apocalyptic present in 2036 and the other in 2022 a few months before the end of the world.

In the town of Raccoon City, we follow Albert Wesker and his daughters Billie and Jade, in the shadow of the dreadful Umbrella, responsible for the creation of the T virus, which transforms men into zombies.

49% approval for the press and 26% for the public on Rotten Tomatoes

So how has this series been received?

To put it simply, the reviews seem mixed and the public not very enthusiastic.

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the series scores 49% from critics, but just 26% from audiences, with an average score of 1.8 out of 5 (based on 1,691 reviews at the time of writing). ).

"Hodgepodge of ambitions"

For Indiewire, "Most of the time, this 8-episode first season of

is a hodgepodge of ambitions, likely to satisfy few fans of the franchise (whether they enjoy video games, movies, or both). . »

For its part, Vulture is quite mixed.

If the critic praises the performance of the cast and in particular that of Lance Reddick, the series does not seem to him to bring much.

“When

tries to be serious and to do pure and hard science (which is often the case), it is difficult to make the difference with other content that talks about Zombies, writes the journalist .

Probably because much of the genre was modeled from the undead aesthetic that the game installed from its first edition in 1996. (…) But, he tempers, when the series honors the origins of the franchise by inserting various essential elements of the video game,

seems to be moving away from the movie adaptations to venture into new horror territory.

It's just unfortunate that these scenes are so few and far between.

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Finally, the IGN website.

com is less negative and says it is still the "most faithful" adaptations of

.

"Monstrously Bad", "Worst Adaptation in Hell"

The French press does not take so many gloves.

Télérama qualifies the Netflix series as "a monstrously useless serial adaptation": For Pierre Langlais, "His portrait of a surgical, symmetrical present, an alignment of freezing laboratories and houses that are too white to be honest, brings nothing new to an overexploited imagination since

(1997).

His view of the future is hardly better, between

and

barely spiced up by the appearance of digital critters.

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Finally, according to Widescreen, it is downright "the worst adaptation in hell": For Geoffrey Crété, "Far from the bet of the frontal adaptation of

[the 2021 film], far from the films anime and animated series that clung to cult characters, the Netflix series falls into the stinky (and somewhat hilarious) shadow of films led by Paul WS Anderson and Milla Jovovich.

Like them, she cheerfully draws from the mythology of games, between winks and rewriting, to compose an adventure around a new, almost invincible heroine.

And like them, she ultimately adapts the worst of Resident Evil: stories of clones, betrayals, mutations, quasi-superpowers, against a backdrop of family problems worthy of a telenovela.

Already seven films and an animated series

In addition to multiple video games, the

universe has already given rise to 6 films with Milla Jovovich released between 2002 and 2017, to which must be added a reboot, released in 2021.

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