Resident Evil movie review: Austin Abrams brings gore, chaos and a million f**ks
17 September,2026 02:03 PM IST | Mumbai | Rachel Pereira
Resident Evil is a bloody, chaotic and surprisingly funny ride. Austin Abrams, a delivery guy, finds himself racing to deliver an antidote through an increasingly chaotic, monster-infested city, encountering one bizarre situation after another as he tries to get the package to its destination
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Imagine being a delivery guy tasked with an important package, driving through a snow-covered forest, only to meet with an accident that changes the course of your night for the worse. Welcome to Resident Evil.Be prepared for litres of blood getting spilled, guts and brain matter blown into pieces, and if you’ve planned a dinner date, it’s time to cancel it.
A dangerous serum created by scientists has turned people into violent, monster-like zombie creatures, and the infection has already spread across the city. With the antidote in his possession, Bryan (Austin Abrams), the delivery guy, finds himself racing through an increasingly chaotic, monster-infested city, encountering one bizarre situation after another as he tries to get the package to its destination.
And if there is one word Bryan seems to have permanently added to his vocabulary, it is the f-word. At this point, a drinking game based on the number of times he says it might be more entertaining. But what makes Bryan oddly likeable is that despite everything going completely off the rails, he remains ridiculously helpful. Every few minutes, while the world is falling apart around him, he is busy checking if someone else is okay. It’s almost as if someone accidentally dropped a very polite, slightly panicked mother into a zombie apocalypse. He also spends majority of the film looking like Timothee Chalamet from Meesho.
More chaos than horror
The film’s biggest strength is also what makes it such an unserious watch. Resident Evil has plenty of blood, guns, creatures and body horror, and there are moments that genuinely look like they have jumped straight out of a video game. The gunplay and gore give it that familiar gaming energy, while the increasingly bizarre situations keep the action moving.
But don’t go expecting to spend the entire movie hiding behind your popcorn. The film is often funnier than it is frightening. Bryan is clumsy, fumbles, panics, makes questionable decisions and generally behaves like what most of us would probably look like if monster-like creatures suddenly appeared outside our homes.
In that sense, the film gets something right, its hero doesn’t feel like a perfectly trained killing machine. He’s just a guy trying to survive, and watching him figure things out as he goes makes some of the madness surprisingly entertaining.
Train to Busan meets a very bad night
There are stretches that feel like Train to Busan, except instead of being trapped on a train, Bryan’s nightmare keeps moving through the outside world and eventually into a hospital setting. The enclosed spaces work well for the tension, while the wider environments allow the film to throw increasingly strange threats at him.
The problem comes towards the end, where the film doesn’t quite stick the landing. After all the madness that precedes it, the conclusion feels less satisfying than the journey leading up to it. Still, Resident Evil works best when you don’t take it too seriously. It is gory, chaotic, occasionally ridiculous and clearly having fun with its video-game DNA. It may not keep you trembling in your seat, but it can certainly keep you laughing while Bryan desperately tries to survive one terrible situation after another.
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