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Resident Evil

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: IT'S GONNA BE AWESOME!!!
Review: I am a hard-core Resident Evil fan and just like all RE fans, I was a bit uneasy at first about it not being EXACTLY like the first game. But really, would you want to watch a horror movie where the point of it is to be scared and suprised, when you already know EXACTLY what happens, who dies, who lives and stuff like that. NO! So it isn't exactly the same, big deal. The company is still Umbrella, the city is still Raccoon City, there are still most of the same enemies, the storyline is still practically the same with some differences, and the freshness of characters and slightly tweaked plot will add a new edge of scare and thrill to the RE experience. I say to all RE people out there to give it a chance if you are a true loyal fan. The person who gave it one star doesn't know what they're talking about (it IS in Raccoon City as previously stated), and from my knowledge and rumors I've heard the sequel could be even BETTER and MORE exciting (loosly based on RE 2 and 3?). I say its gonna be GREAT and exciting to see my favorite series come to life on the big screen. Resident Evil is da BOMB!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: TOTALLY EVIL AND COOL
Review: Alice (Milla Jovovich) and Rain (Michelle Rodriguez) are leading a command team into the "Hive", an enormous gene labor, where a deadly virus broke out one hour before. The virus killed all scientists in only a few seconds but they are all coming back as flesheating undeads. With little time left, the team has to act fast to avoid disastrous consequences

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: bombs a way!!!
Review: It seems that a video/turn movie is in our midists....
I love the resident evil seris yet for this movie i believe it will be a bomb at the box office...that it will recieve negative reviews....oh it might do well for 1 or 2 weeks.....the story does not even take place in ratcoon city...nore is jill valetine and the original team in here exept wesher...they are in a huge biologiocal reserve against a computer and a maze with a licker maling zombies and getting its power that way ...I think this will bomb negatively like tomb raider,street fighter,andmario brothers...dont forget final fantasy the spirits within...i only hope i am wrong..oh dont forget the ending which will lead to a hoorible sequal if i thought right

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: bow to the evil baby!
Review: I am a fan of the R.E. I have the games,books and am looking forward to the movie. However I got to read the story for the motion picture. The movie is of course based on jill and her teams little romp through a nightmare...however it is not in the mansion even ...it is in a maze hive in which the licker is the ultimate bad guy...with a homocidle lunitic computer...the lick gets it power my moling the undead..... Hey what am i complaning about its resident evil so what if their is a little moyificatons...it may be for the best!March 15 here I come!O ya i get to see this on my birthday!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: The blood bath begins
Review: This is a popcorn movie, don't expect something original.Don't expect something that makes sense.The only thing you'll have to worry about, is the action...and come on, this movie is packed up with action, blood, scary zombies and the godess Milla Jovovich(Seen in some other great movies like `The fifth element' and `Joan of Arc').

The Cast:
Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez and Eric Mabius.A great cast.
Young, pretty and talented.
Michelle Rodriguez(From `Girlfight' and `The fast and the furious') is Rain, one of the 3 females of the SWAT group.
She's rude, violent, strong and still hot.This girl knows how to kick hard.
Milla Jovovich is Alice, she losted her memorie and can't remember what was her mission.
She's so beautiful, and she knows how to kick hard too.
Eric Mabius is Matt(I think it was Matt), he was found with Alice inside the mansion, the SWAT team thinks he's undercover.
He can't fight, but he can win Alice's hart.

The story:
Alice wakes up inside a Rocoon City mansion.When a SWAT team enters the mansion, she realizes that they are getting ready to enter The Hive.
The Hive, is an underground laboratory that created this T virus that can bring the dead people alive.
The red queen, the Hives "mind" killed everybody inside.
The team's mission is to find out what happened and destroy the T Virus.

The Bad guys:
Zombies, dogs, the red queen and The Licker.
The workers of the Hive are dead, but know thanks to the virus they are hungry and walking.
The dogs were for secret experiments, now they are zombie dogs.
The Licker, one of the Hive's most secret experiments, a strange creature.

The Action:
Wow!, this movie is action for a 100 minutes.
People eating each other, dogs jumping, a lot of blood, people cut in to a million pieces, cutted off hands and heads, guns, broken necks, mutated monsters and a secret laboratory more cool than Disney Land.

Resident Evil is a good movie to watch with friends.
It's based in the famous PC game, there are a lot of differences and lot of similarities.But you'll have to watch the movie to find it out.Paul Anderson is a great director, the camera loves him.He also made that bad video game movie called Mortal Kombat.

Resident Evil is pure fun, lots of blood, action and braindead people.
If you don't like this kind of movies, you can still watch Milla Jovovich.

RESIDENT EVIL
(U.S.A./2002/97')
Starring: Milla Jovovich,
Michelle Rodriguez,
Eric Mabius
Directed by Paul Anderson
Rated: R(Fro strong violence)

FINAL GRADE: C+

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Evil Is Resident
Review: The world has been waiting for this and now they'll know how it all begins in this action adventure based on Survival Horror at it's finest form in RESIDENT EVIL.

Now at first i was skeptic like the rest of you, but it's shown me through the trailer that it will be one hell of a movie. The movie should be good and i'm sure that it will...enjoy!

^_^

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: AWESOME! SCARY!
Review: From what I've seen in the trailer and read about this movie, It sounds and looks like Paul Anderson did a good job. I think it was smart for him to introduce new characters and a new story, but relating back to the game. This will allows for the unexpected! People will be able to understand the movie, without having to play the games, but the people who have, can relate back to elements of the story. Pretty cool! Also, the zombies and creatures look really scary. I hope that it's as good as I think it's gonna be. I'm really hyped to see this movie!!!!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Creepy horror that will cause involuntary nerve twitching...
Review: Resident Evil is a nitroglycerin packed horror film that is based on Capcom's best selling horror videogames with the same name. Before the story begins the audience is introduced to the Umbrella Corporation that produces 90% of every home's household products. However, its large profits are derived from military technology, genetic experimentation and viral weaponry, which is unknown to the public. The story begins with Alice (Milla Jovovich) waking up with temporary amnesia caused by gas released by the Hive's supercomputer, the Red Queen, as a defense mechanism. The Hive is a secret underground research complex with an exterior design similar to the form of a virus, which hosts over 500 scientists. Alice learns through a group of special operatives working for the Umbrella Corporation that she is also a special operative and something has gone wrong in the Hive. The mission of the group is to find out what went wrong and turn off the Red Queen that has seemed to run amok. As the group enters the darkened corridors of the Hive they enter a nightmare that submerges them into an agonizing reality of hellish creatures that want to nourish. Resident Evil is a fast paced horror tale where the unknown is known, yet the moment of surprise will cause nerves to twitch involuntary as it offers a creepy cinematic experience.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Resident Evil from CrownReviewernowOnCIAO
Review: Oh man, I don't even know where to start with this review.
First of, I should say, that Resident Evil is another botched attempt by a movie company (Screen Gems) to bring
another game title to the bring screen.
All movies based on game titles have sucked :Final Fantasy,
Mortal Kombat are just 2 examples. In fact, the same idiotic director who made those terrible Mortal Kombat movies directed this piece of junk!!!

Once I knew that, I knew the movie was going to suck.
I just didn't how much it would suck, until I saw it.
After seeing it, I have to say that Capcom did probably the most stupidest thing they could have done, by giving the rights for this movie to be made.

Furthermore, Capcom, obviously didn't care, how the director was going to follow the game, because if they had, they would have seen that the film does horrible injustice to the game.
It does not follow up the story and plot to the games.
In fact, none of the characters from the game: Chris Redfield, Claire Redfill, Jill, or Leon, the policeman are in the film.
To understand why Resident Evil is a pitiful attempt
to bring the game to the screen, you have to know the
story in Resident Evil games.

An evil corporation called Umbrella, has unwilligenly
or willingly (depending on who you ask) has unleashed
a virus called the "T virus". The T virus has the effect, of killing people and then making them zombies.

Even more scary is the fact, that the Umbrella knows
about the situation but is covering it up. Only a handful of corrupt politicians and Umbrella personnel know about the virus. In the first RE game, a team of special police officers, trace the roots of the virus to a mansion, harboring all sorts of monsters. In fact, "the scene of the mansion" is in the movie, but that's one of a few similiarities between the game and the movie. Eventually the last survivors of the mansion Chris Redfield, Jill Valentine escape only to be separated . (...)

Birkin is himself infected, by a more powerful virus,
and is mutated to another horrible beast. Eventually all the survivors escape, and thus stop the Umbrella corporation from doing more damage to Racoon City.

That's basically the Re games. Sounds cool,doesn't it?

The Crappy, Sucky Movie version of Resident Evil

The movie starts out in the Umbrella Corporation.
Everthing is calm and cool, until an employee drops a
chemical container containing the T virus into the
floor. Then all hell breaks loose, because it seems that
Umbrella's computer known as the Red Queen, has isolated and
captured all of Umbrella's employees and plans to kill them.
In fact, some of the death scene in Re are actually
pretty good, but most of them are not. So eventually most of the people in Umbrella die, due to this supercomputer. LOL.
This is garbage that is made up. In the Re games,
there is no "Red Queen" that is causing the killing in
Racoon City, and in Umbrella. The killing is brought
upon by the heads of Umbrella, and corrupt politicians, who have knowingly released the virus and are trying to cover
it up. Instead, we get Milla Jolladovich, playing some drugged out,security officer named Alice Prospero.
Then comes the ridiculous plot of the movie, which is that
most of the damage inflicted on the personnel of Umbrella,
is by a computer called "The Red Queen" which
unleashes a set of death traps, to anyone infected with
the "T virus".

Practically the only part of the game that the movie
stays true to is in fact that Umbrella has created a virus called the "T virus" which it plans to use for germ warfare.
However, that's how close you'll come to similiarities once again between the game and the movie.

Eventually Ms. Prospero is rescued, (technically she
is put in the custody) of a group of special police cops ,
to infiltrate Umbrella and find out what the hell is going on.

Adding more confusion (and laughter) to the situation
is that Ms. Prospero has amnesia and doesn't understand her connection to Umbrella. Well it's revealed that Ms. Prospero was working with someone in Umbrella, to expose to the media the virus that Umbrella was creating.

However, that person died, along with the evidence that
Umbrella is responsible for the chaos in Racoon City and
Umbrella.

Eventually these bumbling cops eventually meet a holographic
image of the Red Queen who says "I've been a very bad girl".

LOL. Yeah and I would have added "I've been a bad actress
to be in this film too".

Eventually the remaining cops become aware of the zombies and other monsters and try to escape from Umbrella headquarters....

Besides the terrible acting, script and story in Resident Evil, there is also a lack of creatures from the games.

The zombies , zombie dogs, and lickers are in R.E. but
here is a whole of creatures and monsters not in the movie:

Giant, poisonous spiders, killer sharks, 2 arm ferocious hunters, large killer poisonous plants and the over 6ft tall indestructible Tyrants in the game. A waste of a golden opportunity to make a good movie.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Milla Jovovich Kicks Serious Zombie Butt!
Review: "I shot her five times,
How was she still standing?
(rapid machine gun fire) B---- Isn't standing now.""

"This is Going to slow us down."

Resident Evil: Based on the super popular video games of the same name.

Basic plot, OH Geeeze Meathead don't spoil it for the rest of us who might want to see it. Players of the Resident Evil series of video games will recognise many of the scenes and plot elements. I didn't becuase I haven't played the games except maybe the first or second one once or twice (whichever one starts outside the mansion). OK so without giving too much away, a deadly virus breaks out in a super secret experimental laboratory complex that is controled by a supercomputer Named "The Red Queen" that has gone out-of-control so the powers that be send in the marines so to speak (a special forces type paramilitary unit). Meanwhile the main character Alice played by Jovovich has amnesia, a side effect of nerve gas released by the Red Queen, and slowly regains her memory as events unfold. Yes there are intentional parralels to Louis Carols Alice In Wonderland. I enjoyed this movie although you do have to turn off your brain as with most other movies of this genre. An interesting bit of trivia is that Night of the Living Dead (1968) Director George A. Romero, was originally on board to write and direct, but left the project due to creative differences over the script. The sound is typical Sci-fi, Horror, suspense heavy metal type music scored by Marco Beltrami and get this Marilyn Manson. Oddly enough despite that bizarre match up the music works. As for the plot etc... The result is something like Demon Seed meets Night of The Living Dead, meets Lara Croft - Tomb Raider with a little Total Recall and Raiders of The Lost Ark thrown in. I liked one scene which according to Internet Movie Data Base was inspired by and is very similar to a scene in the Canadian movie The Cube. My entertainment dollar was well spent even with the slightly cheesy CGI effects and occasional cheap Zombie makeup mixed with just plain gory Zombie makeup. BTW they don't ever call the undead creatures Zombies, they usually refer to them as the monsters or creatures or things, wouldn't you?

The Quality is very good overall so out of 5 stars or discs or thumbs or whatever you wants. I give Resident Evil a 4 for the sound and the picture quality a 4.5


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