Outside of that, the vignette has a fairly similar tone to the ones focused on Claire Redfield (Kaya Scodelario) and her brother Chris (Robbie Amell): weirdly edited and more than a little goofy. At one point, Hopper points out that Jill’s a little off, which the vignette simply gets across by showing her pulling a gun on someone just face down on a table and then asking what the worst way to die would be. (The answer to that question may just be the entire movie?)
Should the film follow the arc of the games and be successful enough to warrant sequels, Jill will eventually grow to be one of the most important players in the Resident Evil universe. What’s interesting about Raccoon City is how it’s a mashup of the first two games, and Jill wasn’t featured at all in Resident Evil 2 because Capcom’s Shinji Mikami believed at the time that she and fellow RE1-protagonist Chris would be too experienced to be afraid of zombies not long after escaping the Spencer mansion. Blending the two games together has the potential to change their characters in some fascinating ways going forward.
Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City releases in theaters on November 24.
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