Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021)

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Viewer Rating

Rating: 4.6

Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City poster

Overview

Once the booming home of pharmaceutical giant Umbrella Corporation, Raccoon City is now a dying Midwestern town. The company's exodus left the city a wasteland with great evil brewing below the surface. When that evil is...

Starring Cast

Kaya Scodelario • Robbie Amell • Hannah John-Kamen

Where to watch

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Bias Dimensions

Political: Leans Left

Diversity: High

Race Swap: Yes

Overview

Starring Cast

Kaya Scodelario • Robbie Amell • Hannah John-Kamen

Where to watch

Philo

Prime Video

Apple TV

Detailed Bias Analysis

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Primary

Political: Leans LeftConfidence: High

The film leans left due to its central conflict revolving around the Umbrella Corporation's unchecked greed and unethical experiments, which directly cause the catastrophic outbreak and environmental devastation, aligning with critiques of corporate power.

Diversity: HighConfidence: High

The movie demonstrates significant DEI primarily through its casting choices, explicitly recasting traditionally white roles with minority actors. However, its narrative remains focused on the horror and action elements, without explicitly critiquing or negatively framing traditional identities.

Secondary

Race Swap: YesConfidence: High

Jill Valentine, a character canonically established as white in the Resident Evil video game series, is portrayed by a Black actress in the film, constituting a race swap.

LGBTQ: N/AConfidence: High

Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City contains no explicit or identifiable LGBTQ+ characters, relationships, or themes. Therefore, there is no portrayal to evaluate, resulting in a net impact of N/A.

FemPower: NoConfidence: High

The film features female protagonists Claire Redfield and Jill Valentine, who primarily engage in combat against zombies and mutated creatures using firearms. There are no significant scenes depicting either character defeating one or more male opponents in close-quarters physical combat through skill, strength, or martial arts.

Gender Swap: NoConfidence: High

All major characters from the Resident Evil video game series, including Chris and Claire Redfield, Leon S. Kennedy, Jill Valentine, and Albert Wesker, maintain their established canonical genders in this film adaptation.