Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City is a 2021 action horror film written and directed by Johannes Roberts. Adapted from the stories of the first and second games by Capcom, it serves as a reboot of the Resident Evil film seriesand is the seventh live-action film based on the video game series. The film stars Kaya Scodelario, Hannah John-Kamen, Robbie Amell, Tom Hopper, Avan Jogia, Donal Logue, and Neal McDonough. Set in 1998, it follows a group of survivors during a zombie outbreak in Raccoon City. It is the first live-action film in the series not to feature Milla Jovovich in the lead role or her character Alice.
Plot[]
In the 1980s, Claire Redfield and her older brother Chris are children living at the Raccoon City Orphanage. Claire befriends Lisa Trevor, a disfigured girl who has been experimented on by Dr. William Birkin, an employee for the Umbrella Corporation, who takes children for his experimental research. Claire escapes the orphanage.
In 1998, she returns to Raccoon City, hitchhiking in a semi-truck. The truck driver accidentally hits a woman on the road, who disappears. The driver's Dobermannlicks the blood left behind, and over time becomes erratic. At a diner, rookie police officer Leon S. Kennedy notices that the diner's owner has blood coming out of her eyes. Claire warns Chris about Umbrella's experiments, revealing journalist Ben Bertolucci as her source. After Chris leaves, a child breaks into the house, running from his mother; both are erratic and bloody. Claire escapes.
At the police station, the STARS Alpha team meets with Chief Brian Irons, who explains that the Bravo team went missing while investigating a death at the remote Spencer Mansion. The Alpha team, composed of Chris, Jill Valentine, Richard Aiken, Brad Vickers, and Albert Wesker, is sent to the mansion by helicopter to investigate. Unknown to his teammates, Wesker is an operative for an unidentified party, tasked with stealing Birkin's virus. Inside, the team encounters zombies eating the bodies of the Bravo team. Brad gets bitten and crashes the helicopter. Richard is eaten; Chris and Jill flee into the secret passage Wesker unlocked.
The truck driver, bitten by his dog, transforms into a zombie and crashes his truck in front of the police station. Chief Irons tries to drive out of the city but is fired on by Umbrella guards attempting to contain the outbreak. He returns to the station, where Claire and Leon encounter Bertolucci locked in a cell. Bertolucci is bitten by a zombie inmate and the station becomes overrun. Leon, Claire, and Irons escape to the Orphanage, looking for a secret Umbrella tunnel leading to the mansion.
A Licker kills Irons and attacks Leon, but he is saved by Lisa. She recognizes Claire and gives them the keys to the secret passage. The pair discovers the secret lab where Umbrella was experimenting on children. Wesker encounters Dr. Birkin and his family inside and has a shootout with them; he kills Birkin's wife in self-defense. Jill shoots Wesker. Before apparently dying, Wesker tells her to escape via the underground train before the Umbrella Corporation destroys the city. Birkin injects himself with the "G-Virus" and mutates.
Chris, Sherry Birkin, Jill, Claire and Leon board the train but are derailed when Raccoon City is destroyed, allowing a monster version of Dr. Birkin to reach them. Leon destroys the monster with a rocket launcher. As the Corporation states that there were zero civilian survivors in the aftermath of the destruction, the five survivors walk out of the train tunnel, leaving Raccoon City behind.
In the mid-credits scene, Wesker awakens in a body bag, unable to see anything. A mysterious figure hands him sunglasses and introduces herself as Ada Wong.
Cast[]
- Kaya Scodelario as Claire Redfield
- Hannah John-Kamen as Jill Valentine
- Robbie Amell as Chris Redfield
- Tom Hopper as Albert Wesker
- Avan Jogia as Leon Kennedy
- Donal Logue as Chief Irons
- Neal McDonough as William Birkin
- Lily Gao as Ada Wong, a mysterious spy
- Chad Rook as Richard Aiken
- Marina Mazepa as Lisa Trevor
- Nathan Dales as Vickers
- Josh Cruddas as Ben Bertolucci
- Pat Thornton as the truck driver
- Holly De Barros as Sherry Birkin
- Janet Porter as Annette Birkin
- Dylan Taylor as Kevin Dooley
- Sammy Azero as Enrico Marini