Resident Evil is one of those movies. They took a few things from the books/games and then created something that was just not Resident Evil at all. They tried adding characters and such later, but it was clearly an afterthought. While I did like the first one, it still baffles me that this was supposed to be an adaptation. idk why they couldn't have just made the movies without it being an "adaptation" lol. From what I've heard, the later games tried to be more like the movies. idk about the later books in the series though.