Resident Evil movies were trash because of Paul W Anderson. He ruined Mortal Kombat, made a mediocre Aliens vs Predator, etc.
People love to watch them, it’s easy money.
And the resident evil movies were trash from the jump because Sony pictures can’t help itself when it comes from deviating away from and fukking up perfect source material.
The very first RE movie looked promising at first. The theme song made by Manson sounds very much fitting the movie. The opening scene is good too minus some bad acting by pedestrians. It's dark, mysterious, like right in what's supposed to be. The crew arriving to Umbrella Corporation looks good too. The scene where captain gets sliced once again is unexpected sick twist that keeps the audience interested (very similar to Aliens where sergeant gets eliminated early in the movie as well.
But once the Resident Evil reveals their cheap looking zombies + the rest of the plot going nowhere....the whole franchise goes straight to DVD status. That movie franchise looks like a money laundering scheme.