George A. Romero's Resident Evil

tl;dr: This documentary is fine but underwhelming. It's probably interesting for fans of Romero / Resident Evil who had no idea about the unrealized film, but really you can just go and read the script that's been floating around online for yourself.

Full review: The documentary is fairly one-sided. We only ever hear information from Romero's side of the story; interviews with people from the George A. Romero Foundation, the George A. Romero Archives, friends, and colleagues, among others. We only get one interview with someone from Capcom and it's about the creation of the first Resident Evil (video game, 1996), not about the unrealized film. The only information we ever get from the Capcom or Constantin Film side of the story is from narrator Pablo Kuntz quoting articles and interviews that range anywhere from as recent as 2023 to up to almost 25 years ago. I love Romero's work, don't get me wrong. However, as a documentary, I think to get a complete picture of the how's and why's the project didn't work out, you also needed to hear from all sides: Romero, Capcom, and Constantin Film. Granted, for all I know director Brandon Salisbury and crew did ask Capcom and Constantin Film to be part of the project and they refused.

Brief as they are, why do we have interview clips with James Rolfe (Cinemassacre/Angry Video Game Nerd, 2004 - present)? All he does it talk about how much he loves Night of the Living Dead (1968). It adds nothing to the overall narrative of the documentary. Along the same lines, why do we have interview clips with J.J. Turlock from the YouTube channel Residence of Evil? Unless I'm mistaken, from my understanding the channel helped get the documentary made and were basically the only sort of marketing this film ever got. I know that is how I heard about the documentary in the first place - and it's just about the only time I ever saw YouTube videos/trailers for it. So they had a hand in its...