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The Light puts a specific time frame on it: It takes about three days.
to save the life of his doomed child, out of hope that the mysterious Brotherhood has a cure.
Also, it turns out that Simons mom is Evelyn Marcus, the Umbrella CEO.
This brings us to the weakest point of this episode: the bald-faced Umbrella corporate machinations.
This includes Evelyn Marcus as the hard-charging CEO and Albert Wesker as the more principled but personally compromised underling.
without at least attempting to couch it in altruism or bland cheerleading?
Yes, real CEOs probably are this evil.
But they mostly do not publicly telegraph their own evil in such smirky, subtext-free ways.
If they do, it sure isnt especially compelling or insightful here.
Its just a lite version of the cartoonishly evil Umbrella that made fun, ridiculous villains in theResident Evilmovies.
Boardroom chat just isnt as bracing as reframing a zombie virus as a slow-motion demise.
