TheResident Evilbrand   is as pop now as it was 20 year ago when the original game was remade , with more recent remake of the Hellenic game   recapturing the domain ’s aid and new ideas , like a new live - action series on Netflix that digress from the typical formula , maintain its time to come interesting .

Video - biz - to - movie adaptation have historically done poorly with critic and often with fans too . However , that ’s beginning to change pretty and theResident Evilfranchise has endured for far longer than any other game   series in the humans of film , with   fans having even rated some of them quite extremely . Let ’s look at all of theResident Evilmovies , rank by their IMDb grievance , to see what ’s made them shape so well for so long .

Updated on July 18th , 2022 by Mark Birrell : What a fan considers to be the best Resident malevolent movie bet on either their interest in the games , their interest in film , or sometimes even both . The Resident Evil movies rank by their IMDb scores show how various different approaches to the material have give up different results . No matter where the   franchise make up one’s mind to go next , the reaction to the Netflix serial has shown that fans will by all odds be holding the next installment to a tight set of standards .

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Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021) – 5.2

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The most recentResident Evilmovie rebooted the live - action side of the films and , as a change of yard , decided to take a much more direct approach shot to   an adjustment of the storylines presented in the first two games .

When looking at theResident Evilmovies ranked by their IMDb scores , Welcome to Raccoon Citycomes dead last but both critic and hearing scores on Rotten Tomatoes place it a bit high than that . With a greater emphasis on slow - burning repulsion than was distinctive in the other springy - actionResident Evilmovies , it ’s possible that its reputation amongst lover may improve as time passes .

Resident Evil: Retribution (2012) – 5.3

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Longtime dealership author , producer , and director Paul W.S. Aderson ’s penultimate film in the   bouncy - action serial ofResident Evilmovies is a spot of a blowout extravaganza , arguably even more so than the concluding movie in the franchise , which has a similarly - dissever score on IMDb , showing that it was n’t to every fans ' gustation .

Retributionfinds main character Alice and a legion of familiar faces team up and going question to point in all kinds of weird combination thanks to the franchise ’s shift towards cloning as a cardinal plot equipment .   Though distinctly not as openhanded a bang with fans as other installments , the Brobdingnagian and wide-ranging fit slice of the movie make up some of the franchise ’s   most entertaining moments .

Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016) – 5.5

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The heroic finale of the original rill of live - actionResident Evilmovies , The Final Chapterconverges   many ofthe film serial ' numerous charactersand plot threads up to that point into one net elan to a twist - filled goal .

Led by Alice , the last remnants of humanity wage warfare on the Umbrella corporation ’s master architectural plan for world domination with some revelations for the main fictitious character being saved for the very end . While a lot of actors return for the last movie maneuver by Paul W.S. Anderson so far , a number of others did n’t , and many of the promises made in the last moment ofRetributionweren’t delivered on , which has no doubt give to its low placement   in theResident Evilmovie rankings on IMDb .

Biohazard 4-D: Executer (2000) – 5.7

Though only a short animated movie that barely gets the 20 - hour mark ,   it ’s easy to see howBiohazard 4 - five hundred Executermanaged to get a high grudge from fan than a number of the Brobdingnagian bouncy - action movies .

The uncomplicated story feels like it was pull straight from the games and not just because of itsgloriously nostalgic   PS1 game artwork . The short is full of the kind of horror and suspense that made the original games as popular as they are but it ’s not as consummate an experience as many of the live - military action or animated picture show .

Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010) – 5.8

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Paul W.S. Anderson ’s return to direct duty in the franchise   reinvigorated the spectacle of the action with some memorably stylistic sequences , though its placement when look at theResident Evilmovies rank by IMDb show that this was n’t necessarily what buff want out of the series .

The moving-picture show opens by meet the hope left by the oddment of the premature picture , which is something that the franchise did n’t always in reality do , and theridiculous legal action sequenceinvolving an U. S. Army of Alice ringer was deserving the terms of admission alone to many .

Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) – 6.1

Disposing of all the horror movie build - up that the first movie used , Apocalypsetransforms the resilient - actionResident Evilmovies into a strictly sci - fi - action - ground franchise and fans seemed quite happy with the results .

It was the import when the live - action movies really started to demo a self - reflexive horse sense of liquid body substance and it helps the quickly - pace story move along , though critics placed it last when looking attheResident Evilmovies grade by their Rotten Tomatoes scores .

Resident Evil: Extinction (2007) – 6.2

Much more in touch with classic zombie moving-picture show than late instalment , Extinctionsaw the unrecorded - activity motion-picture show deviate more from the source textile to become their own affair , and fans responded well to it .

Mostly a desert - adjust post - apocalypse motion picture in the vein ofMad Max , the third   film in the live - activity   series push for things to get even large and wilder in the future and it forms the basis of what the rest of the live - action movies would work with , for good or worse .

Resident Evil: Vendetta (2017) – 6.2

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The final animatedResident Evilmovie sees fan - favorite fibre Leon S. Kennedy , Chris Redfield , and Rebecca Chambers team up to campaign the common   evil skill of the franchise .

Vendettaleans into the series ' love of foresighted and luxuriant   action succession and the melioration made in motion seizure technology since the animated movies start take into account for some of the most telling battle choreography of the franchise overall .

Resident Evil: Damnation (2012) – 6.4

The 2nd feature - duration liven movie turn back one of the most unusual and interesting plots of the cinematic side of things , balance its shameless giant mash of   some of the enfranchisement ’s most iconic enemies with political intrigue .

Leon is the out and out main fiber this time around and the personality that fans have come to know and get it on from the globetrotting zombie killer really has the chance to reflect through in this installment , which has surely helped assure it a high place in theResident Evilmovie ranking .

Resident Evil: Degeneration (2008) – 6.4

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The first characteristic - length revive moving picture is a muckle slower than the others , almost sure as shooting as a result of the available technology at the time , but the resultingly talks - driven scenes add an often - drop gumption of mystery to the tarradiddle .

The success ofDegenerationwith fansdemonstrates that slowing down is n’t such a defective matter for the stories featured in theResident Evilmovies .

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