Resident Evil All Movies Collection -2002-2016-... _best_
The franchise shifts from horror to action. The ending reveals that the virus has gone global, setting up the post-apocalyptic wasteland of the remaining sequels.
The facility simulates major global cities (Tokyo, New York, Moscow, suburban America) to demonstrate the T-Virus to potential military buyers. To escape, Alice must team up with an unlikely ally—Albert Wesker, who has defected from Umbrella after the Red Queen took full control of the corporation to eliminate all human life. Wesker sends a rescue team including Leon S. Kennedy and Ada Wong to extract Alice, who also protects a young deaf clone girl named Becky, whom she views as her daughter. Paul W. S. Anderson Global Box Office: $240 million Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016)
The Resident Evil film franchise stands as one of the most commercially successful video game adaptations in cinematic history. Spanning fourteen years, six core films, and over $1.2 billion in global box office earnings, this post-apocalyptic saga redefined action-horror for a generation. Fronted by Milla Jovovich as the genetically enhanced heroine Alice, and spearheaded by filmmaker Paul W.S. Anderson, the series carved out its own unique lore separate from the Capcom survival-horror games that inspired it.
While introducing the original character Alice, the film utilized iconic elements from Capcom's video games, including the Umbrella Corporation, the Licker monster, and the claustrophobic survival horror atmosphere of the first game's mansion setting. Resident Evil All Movies Collection -2002-2016-...
If the first film was a haunted house movie, Apocalypse is a zombie war film. Picking up immediately after the first film, the T-Virus has leaked into Raccoon City. The military quarantines the city, leading to chaos. This is the entry where the film series starts borrowing heavily from the games—notably Resident Evil 3: Nemesis .
The movie provided major lore revelations, unveiling Alice's true origin as a clone of Alicia Marcus, the daughter of Umbrella’s co-founder, and explaining the corporate conspiracy that intentionally engineered the global apocalypse.
After using her clone army to attack Umbrella’s underground headquarters in Tokyo, Alice is stripped of her superhuman powers by Albert Wesker. She flies to Alaska to find the survivors from the previous film, only to discover it was a trap. Alice and a memory-wiped Claire Redfield travel to a ruined Los Angeles, where they find a small group of survivors barricaded inside a high-security prison surrounded by thousands of zombies. They learn that "Arcadia" is actually a massive Umbrella freighter ship floating off the coast. The franchise shifts from horror to action
While purists often note the differences between the films and Capcom’s games, the Resident Evil 6-Film Collection carved out its own highly influential legacy. It grossed over $1.2 billion worldwide, making it one of the highest-earning horror franchises in box office history.
Milla Jovovich’s Alice became an iconic cinematic action heroine, anchoring the entire narrative arc. By treating each film as an escalating, stylized spectacle, the Resident Evil 2002–2016 collection secured its place as a definitive piece of modern popcorn cinema.
Afterlife pushed the franchise into hyper-stylized action territory. Utilizing slow-motion wirework, structural symmetry, and a heavy electronic score by tomandandy, the film prioritized visual spectacle. It also integrated game-accurate elements from Resident Evil 5 , including the terrifying Executioner Majini and Wesker’s superhuman dodging abilities. To escape, Alice must team up with an
The T-Virus escapes The Hive, infecting the entire city. Alice, now augmented with superhuman strength and agility due to Umbrella's experimentation, teams up with game-accurate characters Valentine Jill and Carlos Olivera. Together, they must rescue a scientist's daughter to secure a way out before Umbrella nukes the city to cover up the outbreak.
Extinction successfully expanded the lore by introducing the concept of Alice clones and showcasing the global scale of the bio-weapon disaster. The attack by infected crows remains one of the most memorable visual sequences in the entire series. Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010): The 3D Revolution
While it diverged significantly from the source games' plot, the collection remains a cult classic for its "popcorn cinema" energy and its unwavering commitment to over-the-top survival horror. If you’d like to dive deeper into this collection: or monster from the series Rankings of the six films Trivia about the production or stunts