Perhaps the most noteworthy thing about the 2021 film Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City is that promotions made a big deal about the fact that on release, it would be exclusive to theaters. After all, this was the winding down of COVID times (I mean…sort of but not really) and a “return to the cinema” probably seemed like a sure way to cash in. Whether audiences were still parked at home in general or it was simply that no one wanted to risk things over a new, Jovovich-less Resident Evil film, who can say…but either way, cash in Sony did not. This movie was a flop! Too low-budget to dazzle us with stunts and effects and monsters, it’s just sort of there…full of fan service, but also strangely lacking in fan service where it counts, Welcome to Raccoon City exists in kind of a no man’s land, a limbo where no one is really the right audience. Except maybe me! This movie is, you know, almost fun. And it’s not the worst thing I’ve ever seen. Hooray?