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Summary: I cannot believe anyone liked this!
Review: since everyone is giving this good reviews i have to weigh in.first id have to say there was hardly any gore.the acting was painfully hard to watch.and ive never seen a zombie movie where the "hero" takes out the zombies barehanded martial arts style.Im not even sure if this was supposed to be a horror movie or an action movie.but at any rate it was ...and i would avoid at all cost.it would have been so much beter with romero!
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Summary: If you are expecting a shallow horror flic, it kicks
Review: The first thing I do in an age where movies aren't very good is prepare myself to watch something. Take for example tomb raider. I went to the movie expecting a rather stupid movie with a hot girl blowing stuff up. I left 100% satisified. Now this movie. Two hot girls blowing up zombies.... Cool. Not the deepest plot but hey someone has to kill the zombies right? Anyway it is a cool movie that was done well, execpt for the alien animation, and I would recommend it so long as you are not looking to give it an award.
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Summary: A visual treat but empty
Review: Resident Evil was fascinating as a visual, technical piece but overall empty as a movie. And as a horror movie, there were no thrills, no jumps, no real scares. I anticipated every zombie, mutant doggie jummping out from corners. Most of all, I kept wondering why Milla Jovovich, who is such a good actress, deliverd such a flat and emotionaless performance.
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Summary: Unexpectedly good
Review: Having purchased Tomb Raider sight unseen, I was a little weary of yet another made-from-video-game movie. The truth is that if Resident Evil had never been a video game, it still would have been a great movie. I never played the video game but I loved the movie: large corporations replace national superpowers, intelligent computers have more control over facilities than any human engineer would design, and genetically engineered viruses have the ability to reanimate the dead. The plot keeps you guessing all the way through the movie to its end and there are plenty of surprises. Resident Evil may never be a classic but it is worth watching more than once.
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Summary: Actually this gets 3 and 1/2 stars for sheer fun
Review: Alright, so Resident Evil has bad acting, bad dialogue, bad characterization and bad plot development. How can this possibly be any good? It's simple; you forget all the above because it's just so much fun. Of course I love zombie movies, so I could be a little biased.Incorporating elements of the original video game into the storyline, the plot of a S.W.A.T-type team and a couple of amnesiacs stuck in a secret underground lab where genetic experiments have gone awry is for the most part intriguing and entertaining. Good enough to keep your interest for the duration of the film, at least. The development and timing of the plot needed some work; some things were revealed too late, some too soon, but the film's energy distracts you from dwelling on that too much. And except for a few clever scenes, there isn't much to admire aesthetically, but who goes to zombie movies to enjoy a piece of art? Although it borrows too much from other genre films, such as Aliens, Cube, and George Romero's Living Dead movies, Resident Evil somehow manages to still make it work. No, it doesn't come close to the greatness of Romero's films or the gore fest of Peter Jackson's Dead Alive (a.k.a. Brain dead), but it is still much better then many other zombie flicks. So if you're just looking for a fun zombie flick with plenty of action, Resident Evil's got what you want. It's the definition of guilty pleasure.
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Summary: AMAZING
Review: I can't say I'm a huge fan of the hard to play game, but the movie version is AWSOME! Creepy with the perfect mix of gore. Mila Jovovich's preformance was absolutely first rate, with an extra dose of girl power! The movie is true to the style of the video game and the effects are marvelous!
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Summary: Resident Evil
Review: Resident evil was an overall good movie but the plot was not much like the game.
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Summary: a disappointing thrill-ride for video game fans
Review: ... What made the Resident Evil videogame series so remarkable was the sophisticated and very competent structure of its plot. Part Night of the Living Dead, part Thing, and one giant part Aliens, each Resident Evil game was one of those rare instances of an electronic game as much fun to watch as to play. The film, unfortunately, chooses not to partake in some of Resident Evil's most successful motifs. Gone are the spooky camera angles (the computer monitor point of view is more frustrating than terrifying) and the extremely disturbing ambient noise. The characters are also somehow less developed than the videogame, and, even more annoying, are always on camera as a group. Part of the game's innovation was the diverging storylines and the separate adventures of the protagonists. The film flirts with this divergence when one of the group becomes separated, but ultimately abandons it, leaving the teammember's return as nothing more than a surprise deus ex macchina, rather than the accomplished narrative knot it could have been. For all it's misses though, I definitely enjoyed the movie. Frightening, disgusting, and conspiracy-filled, I was not only hunched forward through most of it, but jumped a number of times. The evil super-computer provides much of the film's terror (including the most disturbing death scene I've viewed in a while), though it's unfortunate (and a bit inexplicable) that she only lasts for about half the film. The zombies were rather stupid looking (the creeps in MJ's Thriller are more terrifying), but still manage to scare thanks to some surprise appearances. The big evil mutating thing, however, is demonstrative of the film's low budget. It's a perfect example of bad computer generated animation and is, all-in-all, not nearly as frightening as the computer or the humans themselves. Still, you'll be thrilled by the heroine's bizarre super-powers as well as the really fantastic ending sequence, which is far more faithful to the video game than the rest of the movie. Resident Evil 2, I'll be waiting!
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Summary: Amazing!!!!
Review: I LOVED THIS MOVIE I WANTED TO SEE THIS MOVIE WHEN IT WAS OUT IN THEATERS.I DIDN'T FIND THE TIME TO MAKE IT TO GO SEE IT.BUT I BOUGHT IT ON DVD YESTERDAY AND I HAVE TO SAY THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST ACTION/SUSPENSE/HORROR/THRILLER I'VE SEEN.EVERYONE SHOULD SEE THIS ONCE IT IS AMAZING."TWO THUMBS UP!"
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Summary: Well, it could have been worse
Review: 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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