Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City: 4 Ups & 6 Downs

1. The ATROCIOUS Visual Effects

It's painfully clear throughout Welcome to Raccoon City that the film was made on the cheap, and indeed, its $25 million budget is lower than even Anderson's original, which almost 20 years ago was priced at $33 million.

This movie is just blanketed in a layer of gaudy cheapness throughout, such that it lacks the resources to execute its cooler ideas in satisfactory fashion.

The tanker crash outside of the RPD station looks rough, as does a chopper that collides into the Spencer mansion, while the climactic battle against the movie's mutated big bad is an hilarious, literal trainwreck of terrible CGI that ironically looks worse than a video game.

The single worst effect in the film, though, is the zombie dog which appears briefly, its undead face looking more like a cheap Instagram filter than a visual effect in a major motion picture.

Evidently, this film was in dire need of a bigger budget. But now that we're done criticising Welcome to Raccoon City, here's what it actually got right...