Honestly, it's infuriating with just how easy it could be to make a movie version of the first game, yet for some reason Capcom and those it gives the rights to are like "Nah! We're going to do something overly complicated and which has barely anything to do with the games".
The closest we got to it was Welcome to Raccoon City, but that one felt the need to awkwardly mash elements of the first two games together (which have two very different story lines) while adding new stuff that feels completely unnecessary- such as making Chris and Claire orphans (which they weren't) and tying lives to Umbrella right from the get-go when they were still kids, instead of having them be regular people who just happened to get caught up in a bad situation - and wrapping it up with a mix of bad special effects and poor casting choices.
What's annoying is that there has been plenty of attempts to make a faithful movie adaptation of the first game - with even horror movie maestro George Romero making a potential script for a Resident Evil movie long before we got Paul W. S. Anderson using the series as a way to try and make his wife Milla Jovovich look amazing (arguably turning her into a "Mary Sue" character in the process).
To quote what Will Jordan said in his Resident Evil Retrospective when he reviewed the 2002 film: "It should have been easy; haunted house, zombies, traps, secret experiments, corporate conspiracy, final showdown and escape before the place self destructs, bish, bash, bosh, you're done - go collect your paycheck".
I'm pretty certain any competent horror director could make a good or at least decent adaptation with this information.
As for this newest adaptation, it just feels like a more infuriating version of Beverley Hills 90210 but set in Africa/Europe and with zombies. As for Albert Wesker, I'm fine with a role been given to someone of a different race as long as it still makes sense in context and they don't screw up the character to fit the needs of the story (instead of altering the story to fit the needs of the character).
A good example of that was with Samuel L. Jackson's portrayal of S.H.I.E.L.D Director Nicky Fury in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. However, while Lance does his best here, his version of Albert Wesker is barely anything like his video game counterpart and it isn't helped by his daughter Jade constantly insulting and talking down to him.
I'm pretty certain if any of us tried talking to our Dads that way when we were teenagers, our Dads most certainly wouldn't stand for it.