{"id":1334,"date":"2026-10-14T00:01:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T00:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/?p=1334"},"modified":"2026-10-14T00:01:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T00:01:56","slug":"hideo-kojima-reviews-the-resident-evil-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/?p=1334","title":{"rendered":"Hideo Kojima Reviews The Resident Evil Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Writer-director Hideo Kojima has seen Zach Cregger&#8217;s Resident Evil movie, and he has now shared his review. Kojima, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/gallery\/every-hideo-kojima-one-sentence-movie-review\/2900-5174\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/gallery\/every-hideo-kojima-one-sentence-movie-review\/2900-5174\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">true cinephile known for his public movie reviews<\/a>, said he &#8220;wasn&#8217;t particularly interested&#8221; in seeing the movie at first, but he did, and he sounded pretty impressed by what he saw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Right from the opening, it hits you with music reminiscent of The Thing. From there, it\u2019s a relentless barrage of classic horror techniques, terrifying situations, and jump scares that never lets up until the very end,&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN\/status\/2109629349720977764\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN\/status\/2109629349720977764\"> he said<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kojima went on to observe what others did as well, which is how the Resident Evil movie is more of a film that provides the &#8220;experience of playing Resident Evil&#8221; as opposed to watching an adaptation of one of its stories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It reminded me of how I felt when I first played the original Resident Evil on PlayStation back in 1996,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I was just like [main character] Bryan in this movie. I kept getting game over after game over, shouting \u201cF***!\u201d over and over again. lol.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" data-wp-context='{ \"core\": { \"image\": { \"initialized\": true } } }' class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-ref-id=\"1917015\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.core.image.showLightbox\" style=\"cursor: zoom-in\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/REMovie-Large-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1917015\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Austin Abrams as Bryan in the Resident Evil movie.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the kind of response that Cregger said he wanted viewers to have. It&#8217;s also what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/resident-evil-movie-director-reacts-to-backlash-says-he-was-naive-to-think-gamers-would-embrace-him\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/resident-evil-movie-director-reacts-to-backlash-says-he-was-naive-to-think-gamers-would-embrace-him\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">got Cregger in some hot water with hardcore fans<\/a> who wanted to see a straight adaptation of one of the games instead of Cregger&#8217;s own original story set inside the world of Resident Evil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another bright spot for Kojima? While he was at the theater, he picked up some physical reading materials for the divisive new Tom Cruise movie Digger. A lot of people have had a lot of things to say about that film, and we are all waiting to hear what Kojima thought of it, whenever he sees it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new Resident Evil has made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/here-are-the-highest-grossing-resident-evil-movies-ever-and-the-new-one-isnt-no-1\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/here-are-the-highest-grossing-resident-evil-movies-ever-and-the-new-one-isnt-no-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than $320 million worldwide<\/a>, following its big debut in China where it&#8217;s made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/title\/tt35538033\/?ref_=bo_se_r_1\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/title\/tt35538033\/?ref_=bo_se_r_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$40.7 million so far<\/a>. Cregger&#8217;s Resident Evil movie is now the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/here-are-the-highest-grossing-resident-evil-movies-ever-and-the-new-one-isnt-no-1\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/here-are-the-highest-grossing-resident-evil-movies-ever-and-the-new-one-isnt-no-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">highest-grossing entry in the series to date<\/a>, surpassing the previous record-holder, which was 2016&#8217;s The Final Chapter ($312 million).<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more, check out GameSpot&#8217;s rundown of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/here-are-the-highest-grossing-resident-evil-movies-ever-and-the-new-one-isnt-no-1\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/here-are-the-highest-grossing-resident-evil-movies-ever-and-the-new-one-isnt-no-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">highest-grossing Resident Evil movies of all time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While Cregger has said he has <a href=\"https:\/\/theplaylist.net\/zach-cregger-austin-abrams-resident-evil-sequel-ideas-interview-20260904\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ideas for another Resident Evil movie<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/resident-evil-director-says-he-wont-do-a-franchise-movie-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he\u2019s done with franchise movies<\/a> and is instead making an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/resident-evil-directors-next-movie-is-called-the-flood-but-its-not-about-halo-adds-jennifer-lawrence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original movie, The Flood, next<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As for Kojima, he&#8217;s keeping very busy with the upcoming games <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/hideo-kojimas-od-release-date-gameplay-and-everything-we-know\/1100-6533769\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/hideo-kojimas-od-release-date-gameplay-and-everything-we-know\/1100-6533769\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OD<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/physint-release-date-estimate-gameplay-and-everything-we-know\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/physint-release-date-estimate-gameplay-and-everything-we-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Phsyint<\/a>, both of which are in the works for Xbox. Physint will also be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/xbox-is-going-bigger-on-movies-tv-and-more-with-new-xp-division\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/xbox-is-going-bigger-on-movies-tv-and-more-with-new-xp-division\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">adapted for film and TV<\/a>, while Kojima&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/death-stranding-movie-is-a-two-hour-art-movie-kojima-says-admitting-it-might-not-work\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/death-stranding-movie-is-a-two-hour-art-movie-kojima-says-admitting-it-might-not-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Death Stranding is coming to the big screen as well. <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writer-director Hideo Kojima has seen Zach Cregger&#8217;s Resident Evil movie, and he has now shared his review. Kojima, a true cinephile known for his public movie reviews, said he &#8220;wasn&#8217;t particularly interested&#8221; in seeing the movie at first, but he did, and he sounded pretty impressed by what he saw. &#8220;Right from the opening, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-news"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}