Resident Evil

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Summary: get over yourself game fans
Review: I saw this movie twice in theaters. I would have seen it again if it weren't for my wife. I'm not a big RE fan. I am a zombie movie fan. I was very happy to see one for our generation. Game fans should realize that games rarely transfer well to movie. It's like reading a book right before seeing the movie. The movie is neveras good as the book...or that is how we see it. I really love the movie. I do hope there is an unrated version. maybe get a little more action.

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Summary: game-based movies
Review: I've seen all the video-game based movies that came out from "Mortal Kombat" to "Resident Evil", since they're both directed by Paul Anderson. When I seen this movie in theaters, I really liked it alot, because I seen a few zombie flicks on TV. The special effects were awesome, making the blood look too realistic. I'm also looking forward to the sequel, if they ever make one.

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Summary: not the video game
Review: Im a fan of the video games, and have played them all,
as a fan of the games I was a little dissapointed, but
all in all, re is not a bad flick, I do recomend it, to
all horror, and action film fans.
for the game fans the ending is probably the best part,
and hopefuly, the next one will be more to my taste.

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Summary: Best Zombies... ever
Review: Well, not really, but the movie is excellent if you enjoy campy, b-horror zombie flicks. It's chicks with guns, lots of bullets, and the walking dead. Oh how I loathe the undead... Anyhoo, if you are looking for riveting plot or stellar acting , what is wrong with you? It's a zombie movie. In fact, the only thing wrong with this movie is that it is based on a video game and yet the movie is still actually good. A sign of the apocolypse for sure. Excellent action scenes, killer soundtrack, solid b-movie performances. Lots of fun.

Oh, and for the hard core RE favs out there, this movie was originally entitled Resident Evil 0, as it was a prequel to the games explaining how the whole nightmare got started. It keeps the same prequel plot, but thankfully chucks the bad title out the window.

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Summary: Darn good movie!
Review: Excellent movie altogether. Nice storyline, character developement. I was on the edge of my seat as I watched this movie in the theatre even after the 4th time. Yes, I saw it 4 times in the theatre. What can I say? I loved this one. And what really surprised me was how clean and tame it was. Granted there were some gross scenes but I was expecting all-out gory-bloody messes left and right like the movie. So I was very impressed by that.

Why did I give it only 4 stars you ask? Well for two reasons: One, the director totally strayed from the video game story line. And this movie was mainly bent on the pleasing the fan boys. And nothing makes a fan boy more mad than straying from the game storyline. And seccond: All the Milla fanboy pleasing scenes were not needed at all. I got a little disturbed in the end when she was wearing that lovely hospital gown.

But don't let that stop you from purchasing this great movie. It's good none the less.

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Summary: its about time
Review: Its about time they made another zombie movie.this movie is for the fans of the game and horror fans. some people say it should have been like the game,if it was then the res fans would know what happens in the movie, a big dajavu,that would suck majorly, the reason they made the movie different is so it would grab u like the first time u play the game. if u played an memorized all the games {like i did} then it would not be as good because u know what happens, but the movie being different left u open to a whole new excitement, and for those who think that sci fi is not horror your very wrong, resident evil was sci fi from the beginning.buy this movie for one heck of a ride im the resident evil master so all I say is the truth, trust me

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Summary: Could have been so much more
Review: RE starts out with 15 mins of great film. Then steadily drops into vagueness. The initial scenes of Umbrella being shut down and all the employees being sacrificed was spooky and claustrophobic. This should have been explored more. (Did anyone recognize the woman who meets her cruel fate via elevator as the prostitute who begs LeStat to get a priest to bless her before she dies in Interview with the Vampire??) However, Milla is kick [butt]. She truly can portray a great heroine (see her in The 5th Element & The Messenger.) She was totally wasted in RE. However, she still can't help but look great compared to the sneering Michelle "Yes, I'm a dyke" Rodriguez. Her one note acting grows old and fast. The only interesting character is the black military man (sorry I can't remember the actor's name) who unfortunately gets sliced up way too early in the film. The zombies are nothing to induce any sort of chills or scares. They are totally wasted in the scenes they appear in. Anderson should have studied the DEAD trilogy and taken notes. They produce scares and a sense of desperation on a budget that is dwarfed in comparison to RE. What did I like? There were a few moments that were great like the zombie dog sequence (however, everyone had seen it 300 times already on TV which took away the excitment of watching it again on the big screen), the zombie dragging the axe with the messed up foot was creepy, & Milla laying almost completely uncovered on the shower floor. The only other redeeming value for RE is the ending takes you back into similar territory as the beginning of the film. When you see Milla in a stark white room with wires hooked up to her and part of her pretty head shaved, you're thinking WHAT THE?!?! Watch for the quick nod to Romero by way of the newspaper headline on the abandoned street in the final shot. I guess Anderson did study Romero's work, just not hard enough. Here's to hoping that the inevitable sequel gets a new director and supporting cast. Just don't replace the Goddess Milla!

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Summary: Finally a video game movie that lives up to the game
Review: Its about time. This movie is true to the game with which it was based and true to the fans who made the game what it is today. All I can really say is wow. Watching the movie I felt like I was watching one of the games. Its a different story but has key plot points from number of the games. I highly reccomend this movie.

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Summary: even i could of made it better!
Review: How do films like this get past hollywood executives. when a film that is Based on a video game comes out, I never look forward to it. The people making it always look at it as "hey, this is from a video game, games are for kids, and therefore only kids will see it. So lets fill it with techno heavy metal music and pointless action". This is why we get films like Tomb Raider, Batman and Robin( recently voted worst movie ever), final fantasy, super mario brothers, street fighter, mortal kombat..., the list goes on of... game, comic, action series films. I am sure that we will never see the end to these films... Directors like Sam Raimi (spider-man), Peter Jackson (Lord of the rings). These are the people we need making these kinds of films, not people who only care about how many t-shirts can they sell in an hour! Resident Evil should have been a gothic, dark, horror film! but instead, it was like zombie matrix!...

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Summary: Good but could have been so much better..
Review: this movie is fun...no doubt about it!!! great action sequences....decent zombies(not as scary as george a. romero's zombie versions) great "licker" sequence!! movie didnt have as much suspense or mystery as the video game, which definitely hurt my viewing experience! in the game it was a mystery as to why there was a mansion in the middle of the mountains...and in the game, you didnt find out who exactly the "umbrella" corporation was until 3/4 the way through the game's storyline..in the movie, its just all laid out in front of you...no real surprise. the red queen addition also hurt the story!! they should have been fighting zombies all the time!!!not some stupid computer!! bottom line: if they had just followed the videogame story and not made their own, this would have been a 5+ star movie. the two stars are for the zombies, the zombie dogs, and the "licker" sequence!!! the acting lost it a star.

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