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Well, it could have been worse
Like the video game it's based on, Resident Evil delivers the shocks, scares, and screams we've come to expect from the game. However, the movie doesn't offer quite an eerie atmosphere as we've come to expect from the game, but then again this isn't the game we're talking about. Director Paul W.S. Anderson (who brought another video game series to the big screen with the original Mortal Kombat, as well as Event Horizon) directs with his usual flair and penchant for some bloody (but not very gorey, most of the gore is kept off screen) violence. However, the film isn't scary at all, the only thing that is scary is how gorgeous Milla Jovovich is. You'll know pretty much when something is going to happen, and the special effects could have been more polished, I mean you can tell that the Licker is computer generated, it doesn't even look real at all. However, the film does have some things going for it, the original storyline (as in not taken from the game but inspired by it) is a refreshment, and the score which handled by Marilyn Manson adds the movie. All in all, Resident Evil is a mixed bag, but it is a lot better than a lot of the other garbage out today (XXX anyone?).

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One Word - Awesome.
Let me just say this; I was nervous bout seeing another Video Game turned Movie. Mortal Kombat was excellent, Mario Brothers was interesting and that is it. Tomb Raider, Final Fantasy (Great animation but I wished for more), Street Fighter; They were awful. Then I heard that the movie wasn't based on any of the Games; No STARS, no Birkin, no Racoon Mansion. I got even more worried.

Then I saw it. Allow me to tell you that this was an awesome, kick-arse movie!

I won't go into details on how the actors acted (which was good), how the enviroments were (Very gothic and dark), etc, but I will tell you all that, as a hardcore Resident Evil Fan, I was not dissappointed at all. This movie totally explains all the mysteries from Resident Evil 1: How did the virus escape, why is Racoon Mansion there, where did all those zombies come from?

And the last 10 minutes put me in shock for the rest of the night.

Look people, the game is Survivor Horror but its very hard to turn that into a movie. The game is meant to douse the player into an uncontrollable enviroment with limitied weapons and surprising elements. Resident Evil the movie is more like Action, yes, but it does to the actors what the game does to the players; Places them in an uncontrollable, hostile, enviroment with limited weapons.

For horror fans - Its a good 'jump out at you' zombie movie.

For Resident Evil fans - True Blue to the game. Considering its not following one of the published games out there, it is true blue and explains so much. I cannot wait for Nemesis to come out.

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Milla Jovovich Kicks Serious Zombie Butt!
"I shot her five times,
How was she still standing?
(rapid machine gun fire) B---- Isn't standing now.""

"This is Going to slow us down."

Resident Evil: Based on the super popular video games of the same name.

Basic plot, OH Geeeze Meathead don't spoil it for the rest of us who might want to see it. Players of the Resident Evil series of video games will recognise many of the scenes and plot elements. I didn't becuase I haven't played the games except maybe the first or second one once or twice (whichever one starts outside the mansion). OK so without giving too much away, a deadly virus breaks out in a super secret experimental laboratory complex that is controled by a supercomputer Named "The Red Queen" that has gone out-of-control so the powers that be send in the marines so to speak (a special forces type paramilitary unit). Meanwhile the main character Alice played by Jovovich has amnesia, a side effect of nerve gas released by the Red Queen, and slowly regains her memory as events unfold. Yes there are intentional parralels to Louis Carols Alice In Wonderland. I enjoyed this movie although you do have to turn off your brain as with most other movies of this genre. An interesting bit of trivia is that Night of the Living Dead (1968) Director George A. Romero, was originally on board to write and direct, but left the project due to creative differences over the script. The sound is typical Sci-fi, Horror, suspense heavy metal type music scored by Marco Beltrami and get this Marilyn Manson. Oddly enough despite that bizarre match up the music works. As for the plot etc... The result is something like Demon Seed meets Night of The Living Dead, meets Lara Croft - Tomb Raider with a little Total Recall and Raiders of The Lost Ark thrown in. I liked one scene which according to Internet Movie Data Base was inspired by and is very similar to a scene in the Canadian movie The Cube. My entertainment dollar was well spent even with the slightly cheesy CGI effects and occasional cheap Zombie makeup mixed with just plain gory Zombie makeup. BTW they don't ever call the undead creatures Zombies, they usually refer to them as the monsters or creatures or things, wouldn't you?

The Quality is very good overall so out of 5 stars or discs or thumbs or whatever you wants. I give Resident Evil a 4 for the sound and the picture quality a 4.5