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Summary: Local Guy Reviews Resident Evil
Review: Resident Evil is the kind of movie I like to watch on a rainy Saturday afternoon. Or any night of the week after 11pm when I'm too tired to think anymore. It's like watching a really cool video game without all the work of actually playing it.I loved this movie! Based on the video game of the same name, it gives you all the zombie killing fun that I can only assume the game does (I've never played it but I've seen commercials for it on T.V.) In the secret underground lab of the Umbrella Corporation, illegal genetic and chemical weapons experiments are being conducted. One of the experimental agents is released in the facility and the A.I. enhanced super-computer that monitors the lab decides that the only way to contain the "accident" is to lock down the building and terminate the hundreds of researchers who have been exposed. The company then sends in a special forces team to disable the computer and discover the reason for the disaster. Once inside the team discovers that the A.I. is in control, the researchers have all become flesh eating zombies and the genetic experiments have broken out of their cages. Milla Jovovich, aka Leeloo from The Fifth Element, plays Alice, a special forces agent in a sexy evening gown with short term amnesia, who is found in the house above the lab complex and taken in with the team to secure the facility. The only other actor of name is Michelle Rodriguez (Girl Fight, The Fast and the Furious) as one of the special forces soldiers. Both women do a great job of running around blasting zombies and acting cool. The special effects are really good. The zombies are your basic slow moving, ever advancing, impossible to kill without a head shot variety. The mutated killer dogs are scary and look real, but the CGI genetic mutants are disappointing. Kinda like the stone warriors from the based on a video game movie Tomb Raider. The 3-D computer maps of the facility that pop up periodically to show you where the characters are is a neat effect as well. I was very pleased with this movie. It was exactly what I expected it to be and the perfect waste of a Saturday afternoon.
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Summary: What would you expect from a low budget movie?
Review: To start off, I must say the plot of the movie isn't too bad and if they actually spent a little more money on special effects and spent some time thinking about what looks real and what doesn't, - that would have been a pretty good movie.
There are alot of things in this movie that simply don't make much sense at all. Like, why is that when people get their heads cut off, no blood comes out? Or why is it zombies somtimes fly like 10 yards from a sub-machine gun fire? (I thought "for every action thereis an equal opposite reaction" Wouldn't the shooter supposed to fly back as well?). Maybe zombies would fall on the back but not take off and fly like someone launched them with a catapult. Who wrote that stuff? And why is that blood doesnt look real at all? Why!? Because this movie is a low budget j...
Sometimes you look at the movie and it looks kind of cool, yet the next second you see a dog that someone put some red paint on to make it like it's "undead"?
I don't think you'd want to see this movie more than once, so i'd suggest renting it.
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Summary: Not a faithful adaption or a good zombie flick!
Review: If you're looking for a great horror movie with an eerie back drop, flesh eating zombies and plenty of blood you're definitely looking in the wrong place! The eerie mansion backdrop of the video game is completely absent instead replaced by an over stylized laboratory and the basic premise of the game (survival horror) is thrown out of the window. Instead you get a bunch of incompetent special forces jerks who have no personality and seem to not think of trying a headshot when the people they shoot get back up after emptying entire magazines into them. This movie plays more like a crappy matrix remake with zombies delivering neck-breaking and kung-fu kicks galore instead of horror. Another thing there's no blood when they shoot 'em in the head just a shot of the gun going off and a quick cut to the tiny bullet hole on the forehead of the zombie; no forehead squibbs! The best thing about this movie is Milla Jovovich gets naked. You can even tell that some of the background in the mess hall tank sequence are 2-D paintings. As for any campy fun, none to speak of; very low gore it's mostly sterile CG stuff, the zombies just seem to nibble not taking a single bloody chunk out of anybody and in my opinion if you can't see it free of charge, don't.
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Summary: Waste of time
Review: I was waiting anxiously for this movie to be released and I am now wondering why. This was absolutely the worst movie I've seen in years. It is a mish-mosh of totally irrelevant scenarios and I, being a fan of horror for years, lost interest in the first fifteen minutes. If you enjoy the game, do not purchase this film. I have a feeling that we should expect to see Resident Evil 2 on the horizon, due to the ending. Please don't bother.
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Summary: It achieves what it is supposed to
Review: I didn't watch the movie with any expectations and for this reason, thoroughly enjoyed it. I saw the movie in the theater and preordered it soon after. Order the DVD version and listen to Milla in the commentary section. She's pretty funny. If you are looking for zombies, this is the movie for you.
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Summary: Best game based movie yet!
Review: Although there were no characters from the actual game in the movie there were quite a few things that fans will be able to immediately notice. Certain scenes are recognizable and the graphics and fx kick ... . The movie itself actually takes place before the first game and ends around the time Resident Evil 2 ends and 3 begins. ... Only thing bad about it is there are no deleted scenes available to watch. Definately buy this movie and you won't regret it.
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Summary: All wrong! This movie makes the game look BAD!
Review: In one word, HORRIBLE! I mean the story line was weak and I can't belive Capcom let them release this garbage!
The acting, don't get me started.......and the constant long pauses put me to sleep!
To put it simple, DON'T BUY THIS MOVIE......!
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Summary: Serviciable, If you ignore some things.
Review: First off, I love the Resident Evil games. I have played all of them (aside from Resident Evil Gaiden for the Gameboy Color, and Resident Evil Survivor which is just a title trying to cash-in on Sega's success with House of the Dead). Having said that, I must warn fans to take this movie for what it is- an action movie with similar monsters and the same city. The movie is loosely based on the game, there are no characters from the game, the mansion lab has been replaced by "the Hive" (a lab buried deep under Raccoon City, more in common with the 2nd and 3rd games). So, once I turned off the RE fan boy inside and gave up on the hope that this would be a faithful representation of some of the finest games in the world, I found myself thoroughly enjoying the experience. However some problems are inherent with the movie itself. The villainous Red Queen seems to have conflicting motivations from scene to scene. At times she seems to be merely enacting protocol, other times she seems to be playing a malevolent game with the lives of innocents. The zombies, other than a couple instances, are uninspired. Unlike the game where the people have had time to rot and are sufficiently dead-looking, these look merely like people that don't get out much. The special effects are hard to believe, especially the Licker. It doesn't look convincing, or even reasonably scary (a Hunter would have been a more suitable monster, if not several Hunters). The fight seen between Milla and the Dogs is forgettable, and stupid. Finally, the obligatory femme fatale SWAT team member, that takes no guff and shows no fear, is both contrived and offensive. Otherwise, Resident Evil is an entertaining, if uninspired movie with more in common with Aliens than the game from which it recieves it's title. I suggest you check it out.
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Summary: Needs more gore and better looking babes.
Review: This movie wasn't bad. It just wasn't as good as it should have been. R-rated movies are just too crippled to have any teeth most of the time. The movie had plenty of action once it got started, but it needs gore and blood spraying for the complete package. This movie had no gore and a female lead that could act but I like my women more voluptuous. Story is confusing but unimportant anyway so don't worry about it. American movies should not be censored or at least available in an uncut form because the audience for this type of movie demands it and this is the land of the free. When will these movie studios get a clue. Movies rated for children are well and good but it's the adults that pay for them and we should be able to watch movies that cater to us too. In short, good concept but marginally executed.
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Summary: very sci-fi
Review: THIS MOVIE WAS GREAT.I LOVE IT I REALLY DO BUT THE CHARCTERS DONT MATCH UP LIKE THE STARS TEAM JILL VALENTINE AND CHRIS REDFEILD. WHAT A BLOW AND (MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ AS RAIN) COME ON I CANT STAND HER AS AN ACTRESS ILL KILL THEM ALL MYSELF ATTIUDE. BUT YET THERE WAS A FEW GOOD CHARACTERS LIKE (MARTIN CREWES AS KAPALINE),(ERIC MABIUS AS MATT) AND (MILLA JOVOVICH AS ALICE) DID A PRETTY GOOD JOB ACTING. THE MOVIES PLOT AND THE GAMES PLOT BOTH MATCH UP PRETTY GOOD THE HOUSE ,THE TRAIN ,AND THE HIVE.ITS JUST THE CHARACTERS IN THE GAME AND THE MOVIE. THE SECOND TIME I WATCHED IT , IT WAS BETTER IT REALLY IS A GOOD MOVIE I LIKE HOW ALL THE PEOLPE DIE, AND THE PLOT, AND ALL THE ZOMBIES ,AND OF COURCE THE LICKER SO THATS WHY I GIVE IT 4 STARS.
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