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Summary: loyal to the game series
Review: i saw this movie expecting garbage. it was very good and it included umbrella and s.t.a.rs but no charecters from the game. it had some cool charecters and some realley cool plot twists . overall i would have liked to see jill,clare,wesker etc but thats for sequel
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Summary: Better than I thought it was going to be1
Review: Usually, movies based off of videogames are a bad idea, but this was actually pretty good. I was startled and jumped many times during this film, which was reminiscient of playing the actaul game.Their were some parts that made me laugh that shouldn't have (ie picking a ultra security door with a hypodermic syringe), but I did enjoy the film and I will probably purchase it on DVD.
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Summary: Eh.
Review: RESIDENT EVIL is okay, if all you're expecting is a largely brainless action-fest. Romero zombie fans will be disappointed, as the undead make only brief appearances in the film and don't figure that much in the action. The frantic, music-video style of the film was also a bother to me, and I kept feeling that this would have been a far better movie if the producers had allowed Romero to script and direct it. Alas.The only redeeming feature of RESIDENT EVIL is Milla Jovovich, one of the world's most beautiful women. I could watch her in just about anything.
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Summary: Best videogame-made-movie yet.
Review: Resident Evil (Paul W. S. Anderson, 2002) No, Paul W. S. Anderson is no relation to Paul Thomas Anderson (of Magnolia fame). Anyone who's seen Resident Evil probably knows that without having to be told. But I get the feeling that even Paul Thomas Anderson fans will get at least a guilty kick out of this movie. Hey, you've got beautiful women, hard-case police officers, loud music, a psychotic computer, and a bunch of zombies. What more could you possibly ask? Paul W. S. Anderson, responsible for bringing us the fun little flick Event Horizon five years ago, turns his attention to videogames here. He opens with a scene right out of The Stand; a bacteriological contagion races through an office building, while the computer that runs the building, fearing the contagion getting out, seals it off, killing everyone inside. Cut to Alice (Milla Jovovich, last seen by Americans crossing swords with Dustin Hoffman in The Messenger), naked, passed out, and in the shower. ...She, along with a number of other law enforcement types, head into the Hive to find out what went wrong. Complications, as they say... Those who have played the video game series (I've only played a demo of the second game) will find lots of little homages within the film, at least according to the trivia section of IMDB; so will fans of George Romero films (both Dawn and Day of the Dead are well-represented with visual cues and the like; Romero was originally slated to direct this film) and Alice in Wonderland (Alice is fighting a computer called The Red Queen... In fact, some folks will have enough fun with the movie playing spot-the-reference that they won't really have to have much else for the film to be worth the admission price. For the rest of us, there's more than enough action (almost nonstop after the team has been in the Hive for about ten minutes), decent acting from a cadre of rising B-list actors (along with Jovovich, we have Michelle Rodriguez, Eric Mabius, James Purefoy, and a number of easily-recognizable others), more jump-out-of-your-seat moments than in any so-called horror film from the last decade, and, well, zombies. How bad can a film be if it's got zombies?... Add in a Marilyn Manson-scored soundtrack, shake, chill, and serve. Loads of fun. ****
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Summary: Much better than I expected
Review: Horror movies have a habit of turning out awful, and there has yet to be a great game based on a video game... but here we have something from each genre that's worth at least the matinee price. The most overlooked thing about the film is that the initial build up is very nice. As the first chunk of the movie progresses we are left with the shadow of what's to come: lots of silence and emptiness, creepy lighting, a few [pretend] scares. Essentially doing its job of establishing the creepy-wtf-mood. When the film finally descends into splatterpunk (and it does), it does so intentionally and with a sensibility that's lost in a lot of other movies. True, this is just another zombie movie, but it's a zombie movie that's actually intended to deliver some thrills and definitely does so. Fans of the games will enjoy it because the "feel" stays very true to the plot of them, and they're referenced pretty often. Horror movie fans will enjoy it because of the nice subtle build up to sudden insanity. Of course, it has its predictable moments...But overall, I would have to say I reccomend this movie. It's no Lord of the Rings, but it's based on a Video Game... not a book, and for what it is: I think the makers accomplished what they had intended.
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Summary: The Best
Review: I love this movie it is very much better than a 5. there was no stupid parts.
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Summary: Awesome, dissapointing ending though
Review: Well, Milla Jovovich is one of my favorite actresses, no she IS my favorite. She's talented, not to mention beautiful, and reminds me of someone I know so that kind of helps. Anyway, as far as the movie goes, I gave it four stars, 3 for Milla and 1 for the rest. Not many names were mentioned in the movie except for Rain, but this was definetely one of those edge of your seat type movies. I stayed tense through the whole movie and I normally don't get scared or jumpy through any movie. Definetly good if you want to be scared. The plot was real good in the beggining, but it went downhill from there, mostly because it was confusing and didn't make much sense and the end left you hanging in a most unpleasent way, which is why I didn't give it five stars. But I loved it anyway, much gore, very bloody, very cool. Hopefully there will be a sequel because the ending is just begging for one.
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Summary: Yet another mess of a video game movie
Review: What might have been: Opening scene a helicopter flies over the forrest on the north western side of Raccon City, STARS Bravo team, lead by Albert Wesker are are investigating the disapearance of the Alpha team, when they land they are attacked by zombie dogs and chased into a mansion where they uncover the house is full of zombies and all kinds of different monsters. The original game (currently being remade for Nintendo GameCube) had the perfect premise for a scary movie, it had the atmosphere, the monsters, the suprises and everything that kept a person on thier toes, all things which the movie that was made a s a prequel did not have. WHat did this movie have that was good? Michelle Rodrigiez is very good looking... aside from that... There were some great makeup effects, but the one non-zombie monster that appeared was the licker, which looked terribly CGI. Over all the special effects were unimpressive, they held back way to much with the gore, and there was far more eye roller moments than scares. This is what we call a hack fest flick, except there wasn't a lot of hacking... so there wasn't a lot going on here that would make it a good horror flick. The problem with a lot of game based movies is that the movies don't follow the games closely enough, that's why only Mortal Kombat has succedded to be a good movie so far, but Mortal Kombat Annihilation strayed too far from the original plot of MK 2 and failed miserably because of it. The same can be said of all of the other game based movies. Many of them have been moderate successes, but we gamers go to see these hoping for a movie that will be true to the games, not be related by name only. Resident Evil Rebirth for GameCube will be time much better spent than watching this movie. The movie has a lot of guns, and a lot of zombies grabbing at people, and neither are enough to call it a Resident Evil movie.
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Summary: It's about time...
Review: I thought Resident Evil would be one of those really bad "video game - movie ports" (do I have to mention Super Mario Brothers?). Resident Evil really took me by surprise. The movie is actually quite good...as a zombie film it is excellent. I won't get into the plot line of the film, as I don't want to ruin it for those of you who haven't seen it yet. I will say that the zombies are excellent...not overdone or overblown. Very "George Romero-ish" indeed... By the way, the movie pays homage to George Romero in it's closing scene...watch for the stray newspaper that displays the headline "The Dead Walk"...a page right out of Romero's 1985 hit "Day of the Dead." See this film! Can't wait for the DVD!!!
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Summary: not just another video game crap-a-thon
Review: i had heard about the making of this movie years ago, when george ramero was involved with the script. i had later heard that he had been removed from the project, and that the plot had something to do with a psycho computer, and i thought "oh lord, what are they doing to my beloved resident evil?". well, i went to see it when it finally hit theaters, years later, with the thought of "well, it can't be as bad as street fighter". to my suprise, what i saw that night was the best new horror film that i've seen in recent memory. from the opening sequence, where a building full of 500+ workers are killed, to the lucio fulci-esque ending, this movie had me on the edge of my seat. i haven't enjoyed a zombie filled blood-bath like this since i first watched dawn of the dead, so many years ago. it has enough gore to keep hard-core horror fans interested, and enough action to satisfy anyone. amidst all the teen slasher flicks that change only in name, and "psychedelic thriller" films that don't make any sense, this is an entertaining zombie-slaughter film. don't shrug it off as "just another crappy video game movie", rather, it's the shot in the arm that today's horror genre needed.
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