Zach Cregger's Resident Evil Gets the First Good Reviews
The Resident Evil franchise needed permission to be taken seriously, and Cregger's version finally granted it.
Zach Cregger's Resident Evil reboot is the first film in the franchise to earn actual critical praise, and fans are responding with a mix of relief and vindication. The previous 6 adaptations ranged from forgettable to widely mocked, so the arrival of a version that doesn't immediately flop has turned into a cultural moment of its own. Feeds are filling with "the one that didn't ruin it" takes, side-by-side comparisons of Rotten Tomatoes scores across the franchise, and permission-to-be-a-fan-again energy that only comes after years of disappointment.
The redemption arc format works because it lets people celebrate without pretending the past didn't happen. The joke isn't that the old films were bad — everyone already knows that — the joke is that something finally worked, and the bar was so low that "actually good" feels like a win worth announcing.
The joke is that something finally worked, and the bar was so low that "actually good" feels like a win worth announcing.
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