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Summary: Could this be the fabled "Director's Cut"?
Review: I've heard a lot about an unrated director's cut of this movie with more gore and violence. I think the Superbit edition would be a great opportunity to showcase a new version of the film.As for the movie in general, Paul Anderson is the only person to make video game movies. There have only been two good ones (this one and Mortal Kombat) and he directed both of them. The second MK, Tomb Raider, Super Mario, and whatever else you want to throw in there have all been horrible. This is a good movie if you haven't played the games. And if you have, it's a great movie...
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Summary: Totally Evil
Review: I have to say I wasn't that bothered about seeing this movie at the cinema, I've only played the game a couple of times and didn't really get hooked on it. So I have no idea why I bought it on DVD, but I am glad I did. You don't have to know anything about the story behind the game to enjoy the film. I thought everything was explained really well, and Alice (Milla Jovovich) losing her memory and throughout the film having flashbacks was a good way to do it. The zombies were really well done, and the cgi Licker was good for the ammount of money spent on the picture, even though it sometimes seems as though it does quite fit into it's surroundings, like when it bursts out of it's holding box it looks a bit fake, too computery if thats even a word. The part that surprised me was how fast the commandos die, but more to the point the way they die. The laser mesh was an excellent idea and really well done, even though the director admits it's taken from a film called Cube. The special features were quite good, even though I'm not a Slipknot fan I think the song really suits the film and the music video is pretty cool as well. But the best feature is the feature length commentary. I had never listened to a commentary all the way though until this one. It doesn't just comment about the film but a whole host of other things. Milla and Michelle are really funny along with the director and producer, especially taking the p**s out off Eric Mabius and his yogurt adiction. This is an excellent film, much better than I'd expected, and it is left open for the sequel.
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Summary: I expected this to happen!
Review: I can see CTHE has been reading reviews on Amazon.com, because I recently wrote a review on the Special Edition release of Resident Evil, and in it I mentioned that CTHE should release a SuperBit Deluxe Edition release of the movie. I don't know if this will be a deluxe release, but since I saw the SuperBit release of Panic Room, I have been dying to see companies release their movies using the process. This movie is going to look phenomenal on SB DVD! I can't wait!
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Summary: The un-Zombie Movie
Review: Not being an owner of a game console such as a Playstation and the like, I have never spent much time actually playing any of the Resident Evil series. I tried to play them on my PC, but it always seemed like my top of the line PC was being dumbed down by playing console games on it, like it was getting a headache trying to think on the same level as a console. That said, I have however seen the games played by many of friends and know the Resident Evil stories, read some of the comics and a couple of the novels. I know and like the characters and all of the playable ones like Claire Redfield or Jill Valentine. Both have one quality, among others, that Mila Jovovich lacks in abundance- her character Alice is not very likeable. In fact, she isn't much of anything, she isn't even that attractive. The Resident Evil movie also has very little in common with its console video game forebears- other than it's title and that it has an evil corporation named Umbrella which has made a terrible virus that turns people into flesh eating zombies. Now, to me, this sounds like a match made in heaven. I'm a graduate of the George A. Romero school of zombie flicks and cut my teeth on Night, Dawn and Day of the Dead. I make no apologies for like spectacular gore- I want to see people being ripped in half with their intestines and other organs spilling out on the floor with wet goopy splatting noises like a bowl of rotten fruits being tipped over. I want limbs hacked off. I want people using 500 bullets to kill something instead of using just one. I want Peter Jackson 'Bad Taste' and 'Brain Damage' level gore. Resident Evil the movie has flesh eating zombies, but very little gore, very little actual eating of flesh. Almost none. So, what's the point? Anyway, the film is pretty much an amalgamation of some of the game stories, namely the virus being released and Umbrella trying to cover it up by gassing the residents of a watch house after someone attempts to steal the virus and purposely releases it. Alice, who awakes in the shower, has no memories of her past and is suddenly thrust in the middle of a commando raid as Umbrella attempts to gain access to 'The Hive'- their massive underground research facility where the 'T'-virus was made and subsequently released. Now, in the video game, everything Umbrella owns is made of rusted steel and looks to be about a hundred years old or painted a sickly medicinal green and splattered with mud and blood. The film, however, everything is cut from polished stainless steel and aluminum, all very sanitary and high tech, which doesn't fit the milieu. The commandos realize they'll have take down a powerful hologram-based AI known as the Red Queen, because she controls the whole Hive and they suspect she's insane. Entering through a glass corridor we get to watch as most of the team is cut into meat by lasers, including the grid laser seen in the commercial. But they wimp out- we barely see Number 1 cut into giblets Sylvester-running-through-the-chain-link-fence style, and get a semi decent slow motion decapitation. Now, in my mind, after the first laser had passed and killed two of the commandos, the next obvious move would be to roll a couple of grenades down the hallway- made entirely out of glass!! Instead, no, everyone dies, leaving only Alice, three commandos and a ineffectual cop to deal with it all. All in all, this film is nothing like the video games. None of its characters are likeable and truth be told, I wanted them all to die. However, the production values are very high and they obviously put a lot of care and thought into the end product. I'm also a big fan of Jon Anderson- Event Horizon will always be one of my favorite films. But in Resident Evil he changed too much, took too much away from the games that made them so effective. Very few of the monsters made it to the screen save for the lickers, which were underused and the undead skinless dogs, again, underused. Notice I have said much about the zombies? I haven't because there aren't exactly a lot of them, nor a lot of scenes with them. It's a zombie movie! For crying out loud, this is what people paid money to see and they give a very poor account of themselves. In this is where the film really falls apart- the zombies just didn't look dead enough, for the most part. It's like the make-up artists gave up before they were finished. The zombies didn't looked decayed enough, weren't feral enough, weren't missing enough body parts or bleeding enough. In short, they were one of the least satisfying portions of the film. I want gore...not scene after scene of high tech equipment and mean spirited characters with very few redeeming qualities. Dawn of the Dead could get away with being a character drama as well as a satirical portrait and scathing indictment of our consumerism-based society. Resident Evil is about gore and killing zombies in as many disgusting ways as possible and nothing else. Worse, the music had me reaching for an icepick to puncture my own eardrums it was so terrible.
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Summary: Decent movie; horrible game prequel
Review: The movie was alright, as long as you only watched it once. The second time around, it hurt very bad. This movie has many problems. Most notably the director and the lead actress. ...He spends his time trying to build some Hitchcock like movie, while Milla spends her time looking pretty--which she does extremely well--yummy--and incredibly vapid. The Dvd is decent but the commentary [isn't good]. Whenever someone tries to give any kind of decent comment on the making of RE, Milla chimes in with some stupid comment or voice. She makes a total [jerk] of herself and comes off as yet another slow-witted model.
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Summary: Very good movie.
Review: ... Now let me tell you I was mad excited when I heard about this movie coming out in theatres, so I went to see it the first day it came out. I am so glad that guy who directed Event Horizon and the first Mortal Kombat movie directed this one also, because those two movies were good and thus so is Resident Evil. Originally they had another director instead but his script was dumb so they scrapped him, and thank heavens for that! I could only find one minor, very minor flaw in this movie. He should have included more enemies besides the dogs, crows, zombies, and the one licker (that morphs into a bigger version). I really wanted more lickers and unfortunately there were no hunters in this movie, but maybe he'll fix all that in the sequel Resident Evil: Nemesis ... Overall, this is the best video game movie out there for now and I recommend buying it, or at least renting it.
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Summary: What i thought of Resident Evil
Review: I thought that Resident evil could have been a bit better for example they could have introduced the characters a bit more.
I thought that the girl in the red dress was Gill from the origional. Also the mansion did not come in to the film enough seeing as the origional was based on a mansion over ran with flesh eating zombies and other mutated creatures.
I would not mind seeing it again but i now have to wait until christmas or just after for it to come out on VHS
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Summary: A disapointment
Review: The score to this film was flawless but, the movie itself is just another average in my book. Marilyn Manson did the score for this movie and he did a job! If you watch the commentary to this movie they said that they didn't want to show zombies in the beginning because, you knew that you were gonna see some any way. The film didn't even have enough gore to be a serious zombie movie. I give this 2.5 stars.
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Summary: Entertaining but brainless horror
Review: Sexy security operative (Jovovich) wakes up one night with amnesia, then gets ambushed by a commando squad and led into an underground research facility over-run by flesh-eating zombies. More entertaining than one would expect from another video-game adaption, but the visual effects are so laughably poor and the concept so ridiculous that most die-hard horror fans will see this to be a direct rip-off of George A. Romero's zombie films. Ten points to anyone who can figure out Jovovich's character's name before the credits.
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Summary: A Great Video Game Movie
Review: After playing Resident Evil for the consoles and enjoying it, I decided to pick up this movie. If you like the games, then there is a good chance that you will like the movie. It is full of zombies and encorporates aspects of Resident Evil 1 and 2. It does help if you have played the first two Resident Evils because you have more of a grasp of some occurances in the movie, like the mansion and Umbrella Corporation. I do feel that a better job could have been done in portraying the zombies, but they are still quite good. There are also a lot of enjoyable special effects that were added that really give the movie an extra boost.
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