20 Video Game Movie and TV Moments That INSULTED Fans

Nowadays people recognise that the name Paul W S Anderson (yes, him, again) is not a hallmark of quality, but back in 2000, when he was brought in as writer-director for the first live-action Resident Evil adaptation, his reputation was still (mostly) intact. The first film went over well enough to justify a sequel, and this spawned a franchise, with Anderson at the helm, dragging the games through the mud at just about every possible turn.

Sure, this film series got some things right: the action is exciting and the boss fights are intense. However. The handling of pretty much every classic character from the games is, for lack of a better word, dismal.

Anderson’s series is fronted by superpowered amnesiac Alice (Milla Jovovich), who battles the Umbrella Corporation through various scenarios and villains from the games, and while some of the games’ characters make an appearance, they’re rarely who we expect them to be, and are usually playing on the sidelines. Two of the most egregious examples are Jill Valentine and Claire Redfield.

Rather than a major player, Jill (Sienna Guillory) is, at first, a disgraced STARS operative lingering in the background, then later a mind-controlled henchman, who is rescued by Alice as an afterthought. With Claire (Ali Larter) we get none of her journey or story from barely surviving college student to hardened badass; she is essentially a drop-in, drop-out side character who is there when required and forgotten when not.