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 .
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Critically the most divisive entry, Retribution is a visually striking, neon-drenched spectacle that feels more like a video game level-by-level progression than a narrative film. It is a massive crossover event, bringing back dead characters as clones and enemies (Rain Ocampo, Carlos Olivera, One) and including fan-favorite game characters Leon S. Kennedy and Barry Burton. If the first film was a haunted house
as Alice. This series is the highest-grossing film franchise based on a video game, earning over $1.2 billion worldwide. Original Live-Action Hexalogy These films follow the battle against the Umbrella Corporation and the global outbreak of the Resident Evil (2002) This is the entry where the film series
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The film introduces Alice (Milla Jovovich), an amnesiac security operative who wakes up in a mansion connected to "The Hive," a massive underground genetic research facility owned by the Umbrella Corporation. A virus has leaked, turning the staff into zombies, and a team of commandos must seal the facility.