Resident Evil review: Pitch perfect Austin Abrams carries Zach Cregger's audacious reboot that hits all the right notes

Resident Evil: Zach Cregger reinvents the franchise with a chilling, thrilling, and fun reboot shouldered by a brilliant Austin Abrams. | Hollywood

Cast: Austin Abrams, Zach Cherry, Kali Reis, Paul Walter Hauser, and Johnno Wilson

Resident Evil may just have found the best film in its franchise, and that too, at the hands of a director unwilling to return to the series. If that does not summarise the bittersweet tragedy the games were, then what does? Zach Cregger’s new Resident Evil movie is scary, gory, innovative, and surprisingly funny in an homage to the games that is inspired by the bestselling franchise, but not curtailed by its storyline. And leading it is a delightful Austin Abrams doing much of the heavy lifting himself.