The reboot of the video-game franchise, called “Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City,” has been given the gift of extremely low expectations. It's the first watchable entry in the series. For once, you don’t envy the lucky people who get killed by zombies.

Franchise overhaul mixes the storylines of the first two games, and they turn out to be two great tastes that taste surprisingly bad together

However, choppy action and clunky storytelling hold Raccoon City back from becoming the dread-inducing nightmare that hardcore fans know the game series to so often be.

Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City offers an interesting take on the first two games, but the short run time doesn't give enough time to explore everything.

Kaya Scodelario and Hannah John-Kamen take on the Umbrella Corporation in Johannes Roberts' Resident Evil reboot. Read the Empire review.

Welcome To Raccoon City lacks the stupid majesty of the previous Resident Evils

Kaya Scodelario and Robbie Amell star in 'Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City,' a reboot the video-game-based action-horror franchise.

The long-running franchise is back with a reasonably entertaining 90s-set story of the emergence of a zombie virus

Johannes Roberts’s 'Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City' ultimately remains buried by its indifference to unchecked corporate power.