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Summary: Exciting as Hell
Review: Whenever a movie comes out based on a video game it's very En vogue for critics to bash it. Resident Evil makes their job markedly simplar. The game itself has no plot, so what hope could there be for the movie. But in a world where terrorism and the collapse of overreaching international corporations are ruling the headlines these days, Resident Evil comes as a more timely thriller, then a video trash horror movie.
The film revolves around Milla Jovonivich (who capitalizes on the action hero promise she showed in The Fifth Element) playing a security expert for the Umbrella corporation. Unmbrella is a corporation who has their dirty little paws in everything, including viral warefare.
A virus is released that reanimates the dead giving them the most basic of motor functions, in short they become zombies, and it is the job of Jovonvich and a team of commandos (ala Aliens) including Michelle Rodriguez to stop them.
What's surprising here is just how effective Paul W. S. Andersen's direction is. Resident Evil is a sleek and stylish thriller, and although the script doesn't give much room for it, the players involved are able to give more then adaquate characterizations.
The creatures Andersen creates are straight out of hell. Perhaps the most creepy and terrifying creature this particular genre has ever offered to the big screen.
What will keep you interested in this film is the non stop action, though. It begins with the first scene and doesn't stop until the closing credits. If your just looking for a genuine thrill ride that leaves it's pretensions at the door, Resident Evil will give you more for your buck then any Schwartzanegger flick from the past ten years.
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Summary: Fueled by incoherence and banality.
Review: Twenty years ago, a movie like "Resident Evil" would have been considered a horror masterpiece, heralded for its social commentary on the evils of the advancement of mankind, and praised for its stunning array of action sequences and make-up and special effects. Here, in the age of movies like last's year's "Thirteen Ghosts" and countless other entries into the horror genre, it's a big, obnoxious, at times baffling effects show fueled by incoherence and banality. The film is derived from a popular video game franchise, which would explain why the plot feels jumbled, or why its characters feel flaccid and empty. It begins with an introduction that is aggravating in its choice of leaving too much in the dark to be explained later in a less-than-admirable manner. The world is dominated by major corporations, many of which deal in such things as genetic and viral testing and experimentation. In a series of chain reactions, an underground laboratory known as the Hive is contaminated by a viral strand, after which its computer, referred to as the Red Queen, begins the containment process, locking its hundreds of employees within the complex, and extinguishing them. Enter Milla Jovovich (character names matter not in such a film), who awakens after a fall in the shower to find a mysterious scar on her shoulder, a strange note left in her bedroom, and a dresser drawer that holds a full arsenal of weaponry. Equally unsettling is the storming of her elite home, where she, along with Eric Mabius, is taken into an underground cavern through a hidden door in her home, and transported by rail to the Hive. This sequence, as well as those to come, is poorly shot, with the use of flashy cinematography and quick-cuts; it matters little, though, because to see it clearly would not be to like it more. The underground setting itself is another slap in the face, being everything you'd expect from a movie such as this: endless hallways of steel, an abundance of fluorescent lighting, and a sense of claustrophobia that goes unnoticed in director Paul Anderson's eyes. Joining Jovovich and Mabius is a team of gun-toting security guards led by Michelle Rodriguez. The objective of their mission centers on the Red Queen, whom they must reboot in order to regain access to the Hive's many chambers, presumably to find some answers to the lockdown. The real evil that resides here is the story's desperation to try and provide coherent solutions to its mysteries. Once things start going awry after the opened doors release the many undead facility workers, victims of the viral strand, the story descends further into camp territory, recalling plot twists and surprises from previous horror and science fiction films, some better, some of the same caliber. ... The overall film boasts a loud, aggressive soundtrack replete with heavy bass and ear-splitting treble, becoming aggravating and obnoxious without ever attaining our interest. There are innumerable amounts of quick jolts, in which undead zombies jump onto screen to a beat of the music; the abundance of such tactics quickly grows tiresome and redundant. The antagonists themselves, from the sleep-walking zombies and inside-out Dobermans, to the cliché-riddled monster that can change form and attain the strength of its victims, do nothing to raise the fear factor, providing more laughs than scares. On those grounds, "Resident Evil" is little more than another horror entry riddled with familiarity and incoherence, banal characters and lousy plotting, that feels less like a movie and more like disjointed cinematic interludes that appear during the course of a video game. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title
Rating:
Summary: Not a bad movie but it needed more
Review: ...this movie was pretty good. What I think it needed was not to be cut so much. It seemed to go from one scene to the next with jump cuts that practically gave you whiplash (like going from the scene where there in the office And Milla kills the guys sister, right to them getting a back to the rest of the team running from the Zombies without anything in between). There was more of this movie people! I think the things that kept it from being great were left on the cutting room floor. Hopefully the'll come out with a directors cut. Still I think it deserves a sequel an a shot at being a better movie...
Rating:
Summary: Not a bad movie but it needed more
Review: Regardless of what others have said (armchair critics) this movie was pretty good. What I think it needed was not to be cut so much. It seemed to go from one scene to the next with jump cuts that practically gave you whiplash (like going from the scene where there in the office And Milla kills the guys sister, right to them getting a back to the rest of the team running from the Zombies without anything in between). There was more of this movie people! I think the things that kept it from being great were left on the cutting room floor. Hopefully the'll come out with a directors cut. Still I think it deserves a sequel an a shot at being a better movie...
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Summary: Milla kicks!
Review: I've never played the game, and quite frankly, had no expectations for this movie at all. The friends I took to the movie with me had played all the games, and I myself was a fan of the lead actress Milla Jovovich ever since 'The 5th Element.' What surprised my friends and I about this movie was, even though it is basically a slasher flick, I got scared! They built up suspense through thoughtful story telling, and the characters were not obnoxious teenie boppers obessed with sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. If you're into action or horror movies, you'll like this. Don't expect depth, just fun.
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Summary: Resident Dreadful
Review: So far the worst film of the young millennium, "Resident Evil," based on the video game series, is sheer torture for all of its 100 minutes. There is absolutely nothing redeeming about it whatsoever. The only frightening parts of this wreck are the dreadful script, the haggard plot (people blast a bunch of zombies while trying to shut down a supercomputer in an underground lab), and weak acting by equally weak actors. Milla Jovovich is a far cry from Angelina Jolie as a respectable female action hero, no matter how hard the media tries to incite a rivalry between them. If you were foolish enough to actually pay money to watch this, then immediately go home and cleanse your soul with the superior "Tomb Raider." Enough said.
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Summary: Horrible
Review: This is one of the worst disasters in the history of filmmaking. The casting was good. The director of photography and his lighting crew is obviously extremely talented. The editor is obviously talented. The production design crew was obviously talented. The story was salvageable. Nonetheless, the film just plain stucked! 1) The directing of the actors was completely unconvincing. Every character and every emotional expression seemed like the director had no ability to pull an original, believable performance out of these capable actors. 2) It was totally derivative of films like Aliens and countless video games: "Keep it tight people", "Get over here!" etc, etc. 3) The gore was pointlessly disgusting to the point of connoisseurship, as if gore fans will be sipping their Pepsi like fine wine and commenting in a faux English accent, "Ah yes, that's just wonderful how the white of his eye just leaked out of that laser cut. And, oh my, the sound of walking on broken ankles is just an exhilarating aural bouquet." I think people are actually getting off on this stuff, which is just sick. 4) The cinematography, which again must be approved by the director, is totally overdone. Every single shot is seemingly an extreme close up or swooping crane movement or some other camera technique that is best used in moderation. It's again just contrived to the point of aggravation. 5) The plot development and character development is totally out of whack, so that we don't know who anyone is or why we should give a damn until halfway into the film, and this is not in a good way like in Memento. 6) A giant beehive-like underground corporate R&D complex, a supercomputer AI programmed as the dead daughter of the programmer, self defense mechanisms that meet the ridiculous criteria parodied in Galaxy Quest...I could go on and on with the laughable ideas portrayed in this film. Even worse is the ridiculous exposition the characters indulge in to relay these facts to us. In the end I was left with a serious case of that "bad film" feeling. A waste of my time and obviously the high quality film stock it was painstakingly photographed on.
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Summary: Survive the horrible movie
Review: The Hives set up by the influential Umbrella Corporaton has been secretly conducting genetic experiments and the subterranean lab has unfortunately been plagued by a viral outbreak, taking its toll on the working staff. It is up to Milla Jovovich and Michelle Rodriguez with the assistance of cop Eric Mabius to confront and isolate the virus. Accompanying them is an elite task force - and the situation is critical with the time factor going against them. They have to reach the Red Queen, the mother of the computer network that powers and defend the Hive. Unless you are a computer fanatic of the popular Capcom game and its spawned 3 sequels or wanting to get a thrill from seeing the protagonists battling terrifying obstacles through the dark labyrinths, you might want to spare yourself from surviving a horrible movie. It is a splatter of unnecessary gore with decapitated corpses and mindless violence that desensitized rather than offer true scares. The phalanx of cannibals and vampire-like troops eating people alive and animatronic creatures like Licker, Zombie Dogs doesn't exactly fascinate either. Paul WS Anderson who also helmed the cheesy Mortal Kombat makes a movie that is stocked full of grunge rock to compensate for its lack of atmosphere. The only saving grace of the movie is Milla Jovovich hiking up the kick... factor with her resilient mantle. Otherwise the movie is a sputtering mess - and it's a shame when horror-chiller George A Romero of the famed Living Dead trilogy inspired this movie. Resident Evil is butchered unscrupulously into a gore flick which is shockingly horrible instead of terrifying.
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Summary: Zombies!!!!
Review: By now you probably know the story of Resident Evil. So, I'll just get right to the review. It was a decent horror/action thriller with some fun. No, it is not a great flick in acting but who cares. You just come to see zombies getting blown up and buckets of blood. Although the gore is not all that much for a horror film, it's about right for this. Just don't think too much at this movie and you might enjoy it.
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Summary: Resident Evil
Review: Resident Evil 2 was the first game I got for my PlayStation. And it came with a sweepstakes to win a part in this movie.
That was many years ago and the movie just now came out. I like this movie a lot more now then wen I first saw it.
It is one of the best Zombie movies I have seen.
Unlike a lot of zombie movies This one tells how the People trend in to Zombies And it has one of the Better plots.
The Zombies Look Great so do the Zombie Dogs and The Licker Monster. The story is about the Umbrella Corporation makers of many things used every day.
But what the public Don't know is that underground Umbrella is researching the deadly T-Virus,
a Virus that reanimates the dead.
in a facility called The Hive.
But there is security scare and the Red Queen computer mainframe Shuts The Hive down and the T-Virus leaks in to the air vents turning all the employees that work there in to Zombies.
Then a small band of SWAT-like Commandos are sent in to see what is going on that soon end up being Killed by the Red Queen the Zombies and The Licker Monster
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