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Summary: THE BEST ZOMBIE THRILLER
Review: This movie was the best movie I've seen since Final Fantasy: Spirits Within (also really good)!! ... But I had the chance to meet the director of Resident Evil and he didn't come up with the idea of making the movie, the creators of the games did. If people say this is a really bad movie then how come it got 3stars???? Sure it has bad CGI animation in it but nontheless it's really good, good story line, awesome make-up for the zombies. The movie is about a deadly virus called the T-VIRUS created by the Umbrella Corporation. Designed to combat ageing the virus has a side effect, reanimating dead cells. The virus was released into the HIVE the research lab deep beneath the streets of Raccoon City. A team of marines has 3 hours to contain the virus before it begins to infect the WHOLE HUMAN RACE. The movie consists of loads of CGI animation, zombies, the Licker, and the infamous crows from the games. I wonder what happends to Alice after leaves Raccoon City hospital???? By the way the movie was going to be called GROUND ZERO:RESIDENT EVIL but because of Sept.11 the title was changed to just plain RESIDENT EVIL. The sequel is due out in 2-3 years!!!!
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Summary: My personal Favorite Movie of the Year!
Review: Well like i said i liked this movie a whole lot, maybe thats because i'm younger. anyhow i loved it, so should anyone else that is a "TRUE" resident evil fan. Even though the movie is a little different from the games that doesnt effect how great it was! Well dont take it from me you...see it! I gave this movie 5 stars for a reason. Enjoy! I did!
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Summary: excellent movie where are rest of the extras!
Review: first of all when i saw this movie in theaters it rocked but i would like to say how did final fantasy get all these extra feautures when resident evil was a better movie because i wouldlike to see alternate stuff and a documentary on how they made everything but apart from that i'm still goanna by this because i liked the movie.
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Summary: Night of the living ...morons
Review: ...Sorry to all the Capcom fans out there, but this movie goes into the vault of all the rest of the video-games-turned-movie[s]. ...The story takes a odd jump from a office building that is terminated by a unknown machine that kills all the employees, to a half-naked...er, whole-naked woman waking up in a bathtub in a weird mansion. Alice (Milla Jovovich) has amnesia from what just happened. Only seconds later, the mansion is attacked and bombarded by gung-ho S.W.A.T.-like marines with roughneck attitudes...(yawn)! Alice is taken captive, were there she is revealed to be a member of the squad...but she doesn't remember. Alice meets a mysterious cop (Eric Mabius) and a charming nobody (James Purefoy) that later turns out to be a charming jerk-off...or is that a jerk-off nobody? The Marines and the 3 are taken to a an underground lab, where the same inccident took place at the very beginning. The machine that killed the office employees is already planning to kill the marines...As for the basic plot? Well, when I mean "basic", I mean it was as if the writer just watched "Aliens" or "Night of the Living Dead", took out his laptop computer and started writing a remake of the movie he had just watched and titled it "Resident Evil"...because he just saw a commercial for some game called "Resident Evil"...Seriously, folks. You need to go out and see REAL films and not just hokey sequels or dumb wannabes. RE is pathecticly shown and scripted. The entire movie is basically "Aliens" in an underground office space that looks like the headquarters for Washington Mutual bank company than a secret organization, with Zombies, mutant dogs and a grumpy computer. Oh, and as for the mutants? The zombies look more like homeless bums with horrible teeth hygene than flesh eating monsters. The mutant dogs are just Dobermens with Halloween make-up on their faces. As for the rest of the mutants, like the "Hunters" and "Lickers"? Well, let's just say that Rick Baker must be turning in his grave...wait a minute...nevermind. The "Lickers" in the RE video-game were much better, were as in the film, they're piles of doo-doo that have the intelligence of a pasture cow. The "Hunters" in the video-game version kicked butt totally, with their pumped-up bodies and bad attitute, were as in the film (this has to be the cheapest idea I've ever heard), they are actually "Lickers" evolved...where ...did that come from??? The CGI in this film is absolutely terrible. It looks like it was done on a home computer!!! The characters are terribly one-dimensional and have no purpose...either than to be eaten alive by monsters. What really ticked me off was the fact that some characters in the film get close to death in one scene that is very pulse-pounding, survive, only to be mutalated anti-climatically 10 minutes later. It was as if the director was sitting in his chair and constantly his assistant would come up to him and ask "So...do we kill him now?" and he would say "Nah, better wait a few more minutes". This was totally annoying. I absolutely hated Jovovich's character for her lack of common sense. Ofcourse, these days, if you want to make a action film, gotta put in stupid "Matrix"-style moves. God, am I getting sick of that same formula of action!!!! How is it that you can jump against a wall and kick a dog in mid-air motion? Please! Probably the worse thing by far in this flick was the ending......
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Summary: Resident Evil Is The Best Zombie Movie Ever!!!!
Review: in my opinion, i think this is the best zombie film ever created. the details on how the zombies are created and the t-virus is very believable. also the whole umbrella corporation and how they act like they are a happy/cheesy corporation, when in reality they are a dark/mysterious corporation is awesome as well. the acting, well, isn't oscar material, but it still is good. milla jovovich (alice) is an awesome actress, and stays true to her role through out the whole film. michelle rodriguez(rain) as usual, plays a tough chick, which is still cool. overall, i think this movie is awesome. do not pay attention to what the dumb critics have to say about the film, you be your own judge. if your into a fast, ambient film, than this is the film for you.
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Summary: A great movie
Review: I thought the movie was a very good thriller. It had great action sequences, and most of all it was suspeceful with a strong script. I'm certainly going to buy this movie when it comes out July 30th. Now the movie had zombies, a licker, and a crazy super computer and don't forget the zombie dogs who were in the movie for about 10 minutes, and that's just the first movie. In the second movie Alice has to deal with my old pal Nemesis.
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Summary: Awesome
Review: This movie will please all resident evil fans. Can't say the same if you are a softheart though. It's a combination of the first three Resident Evil games, and by close observation you'll notice this. Hopefully they'll make another Resident Evil movie...and maybe fix it up a bit.
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Summary: Good adaptation, but NO FLESH EATING????
Review: Well first off this film was far above any expectations that I ever had. I played all the RE games to come out on PC and playstation, anyone who hasn't played them should know that these games are legendary and coined the phrase 'survival horror' to describe their puzzle solving/action/horror/roleplaying style. Playing throught the games themselves is no so far detatched from watching a film as they have story lines (quite good ones too) and closing credits. They are a really great suspensefull and in their own right cinematic experiance. After the slew of terrible video game films (Mario brothers, the live action street fighter, double dragon, two mortal combats and the extremely [bad] tombraider film) I was expectining a terrible unwatchable film. Anyway I got a hold of a bootleg and was surprised to find that the movie was very decent. The sets are close to the gaming enviourments, especially the train (a scene from the game when the monster attacks throught the wall of the carige is recreated in the film) and the mansion while not the same as RE 1 still had the same feel and decor. The story was in line with the game plots, which is great seenings how I expect some wise guy director to rewrite the story for 'his film'. There is plenty of nail biting suspense, ...But still I cannot bring myself to really like this movie even though it is true to the games simply because it completely lacks any graphic flesh eating scenes. I guess that truely gorey scenes are not in vogue in mainstream horror productions which is a shame because with such a big special f/x budget and some first 20minutes of saving private ryan quality make up, they could have created some truely gut wrenching zombie flesh eating scenes. I mean it is no where near as great as zombie films like braindead (or a hidiously cut dead/alive in the states), dawn/day of the dead, zombie, beyond ect it would be piontless to list the amount of supieror "zombie" films, not to memtion it would require more that 1000 words just for the titles. So in conclusion this is hands down the best game to movie adaptation ever! But if like me you enjoy a good zombie flick and are expecting gore, gore and more gore you will be sorely disappointed. Highly recomended for the squeamish.
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Summary: Very poor
Review: When this movie was released in Australi, not many theatres picked it up. I can see why.
A pathetic remake of a video game classic, it follows the likes of Mortal Kombat (by the same director) and Tomb Raider. Although director Paul Anderson did well in creating tension, and overall adding a rather eerie and freaky element to the movie, the actual story has many things left to be desired.
There are a few goods bits though. The start was well contrived, leading the watchers to feel for the soon-to-be-killed employees of the Umbrella corporation.
It falls rapidly downhill from there. Somehow, directors seem to get a thrill in having leading star Milla Jovovich naked when we first see her and when we leave her (think Fifth Element). It wasn't much of an acting challenge for Jovovich, just a few looks here and there, and a number of well-placed kicks. The supporting actors were not much better. Michelle Rodriguez, known better as Lennie in The Fast and the Furious, puts on an act not unlike Velazques in Aliens.
Highlights include the laser killing techniques that bring to mind the opening sequence of alternative movie Cube, which used thin wires for the same effect, the death sequences, the alarming jump that one gets when a former employee reanimates for the first time, and the startling eery super-computer, the Red Queen, which in my opinion was the best character of the lot.
Even the casting of dancers as the zombies was a good idea, making their movements realistic.
But the whole story had a lot of flaws. The explaination of the zombies was extremely inaccurate and unbelievable, as well as their following of our 'heros'.
As a business student too, the actions of the Umbrella Corporation after the Hive was sealed and the survivors rescued was extremely inaccurate. But I won't get into that.
Apart from the small highlights, the movie was extremely poor. Only watch it if you are a die-hard fan, or like getting kicks from extreme gore.
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Summary: When it works, it's a tense ride.
Review: Milla Jovovich (looking incredibly sexy, might I add) is an amnesiac who unwillingly becomes part of a group of commandos sent to a large underground facility to destroy a sentient computer. Unfotunately, what they don't realize is that awaiting them are hordes of the living dead who are hungry for human flesh! Action/horror film directed by Paul Anderson mixes in elements from Cube, Ghosts of Mars, and Day of the Dead, and is never entirely successful, due to some bad acting (Jovovich, surprisingly enough, being the exception), a grating industrial musical score, and zombie shootouts that aren't directed with as much flair or intensity as you might expect. Still, there are several standout sequences that are tense and thrilling, particularly a scene where approaching lasers try to make mincemeat out of the team inside an enclosed hallway, several exciting fight scenes against zombies, and the suspenseful finale that pits the survivors against a monstrous genetic experiment. Definitely recommended to genre fans, and once again, Jovovich just rocks in this movie.
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