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Summary: So good its evil...
Review: Lets start out by saying that I have played most of the Resident evil game series by capcom...and I ensure you this movie gave the the same..If not worst of a scare than staying up to midnight with the lights off playing.. This movie was well planned out and was worth the long unexpected wait.. The acting was very great, the only reason I give it a four because the ending was a little week.. I liked how the upcoming sequal was hinted at.. I will definatly be looking forward to the next episode of many in the Resident Evil series..
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Summary: entertaining popcorn flick
Review: Resident Evil is not a horror film. It is a zombie flick. And it is based on the intriguing idea behind a video game.With this in mind, I rented the movie with my best friend. After hours of having sat behind my boyfriend in boredom while he played Resident Evil on Dreamcast, I wasn't expecting much. However, as several other reviewers have said, this was a welcome surprise. Milla Jovovich is more than adequate as a heroine, and the plot thickens as is appropriate for an action flick. What works in the movie's favor is that it actually feels like a video game. There is atmosphere and pressure, thumping climactic music, zero character development, dialogue pared down to the essentials, lots of shooting, lots of action, lots of locations, lots of zombies... all the comforts of Playstation, without having to move your thumb! What genuinely moved me was the direction of this movie. The truly artful aspects of cinematography, sound, music, atmosphere, mist, slow pans... everything contributed to the sensory experience. Nice job. It's not Mozart, but it'll do. Break out the popcorn.
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Summary: Zestfully Clean Zombies!
Review: Forget about eating raw meat, just watch this movie. Based on Sony Playstation's terrifying game, a deadly virus has taken over Raccoon City and mostly everybody is dead. That's the plot, now the funnies. Michelle Rodriguez kicked some serious backside in this movie. While shooting zombies to Marilyn Manson music, the movie's action never stops. Watch commandos get sliced by lasers. Watch out! Hey, that one guy Eric Mabius looks like he's on something. Chica should've lived. Where was the mansion? Where was Chris and Jill? Instead we get "The Fifth Element" chick who should have kept her clothes on. Elevators are dangerous. Don't let people bite your hands. If they do, go to a doctor and say a zombie bit you. Don't trust man's best friend. Oh yeah, be sure to cook your meat, you don't want the runnies.
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Summary: Duh...It's a new Resident Evil chapter.
Review: This movie was awesome. It ADDS to the overall storyline of Resident Evil. It is NOT a movie based on the original Resident Evil video game. It DOES have an original character in it (Nemesis, who gets an appearance at the end if anybody pays attention). Even if nobody knows anything about Resident Evil, the movie is well worth watching.
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Summary: nothing new?
Review: If you've seen movies like "Alien" + it's sequels, movies like Predator or other SciFi-Action-Horror-Comedy movies the story of this one won't come to you as a surprise. A team of military guys enter a secret facility to "save the world". People die, only few make it out alive. I found the element of amnesia of one of the main charakters (Alice) interesting. Though this element has been used many times in other movies it nevertheless keeps the movie interesting, as Alice tries to find out who she is, what she did in the past and why she did it. So what else is to say about a movie featuring a basic story that has been told many times before? To enjoy the movie (any movie like that) you have to focus on other elements that make a movie, which mainly would be the "how is the story told", and I think the way this story is told is worth 2 stars. Esp. since the movie is not trying to be funny or too entertaining (which I really hate about horror movies). If a movie intends to scare (regardless how cheap the scares are) comic relief is always misplaced. Worth mentioning is, that the AI is not the usual [bad]-software that simply goes berzerk, or follows a plan of it's own or wants to rule the world. The AI most of the time in this movie makes sense and is simply doing what it was programmed to do. The rest is action and suspense. Predictable sometimes, but who cares. People who want to be amused by a movie should watch comedy, not horror. People who want movies to make sense should watch the news (even that doesn't always make sense) and not action-horror-suspense movies.
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Summary: I don't care what everyone else says...
Review: I'm tired of people talking down about this movie. I wouldn't have seen it at the theaters twice if I didn't think it was a good movie. This movie has lots of action and plenty of gore... I can't wait for the next installment. The only thing I don't like is that this movie was released on dvd but it hasn't been released on vhs yet. What's the deal with that?!! That's why I bought it here for [$]. I wouldn't go through the trouble of trying to find it on the net if it wasn't a good movie. Bottom line... In my opinion, this movie is well worth the watch!
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Summary: Good fun for a guys night out.
Review: First off I would like to address the idea that "Resident Evil" is a "Pure Horror" and not an action game. Have you people been living in the past. The game is based solely on action. The horror aspect was stuck in to give the genre a twist. Every Resident evil game was built around the shoot'em up concept. additionally, if anyone saw the previews before they decided to spend money on the movie would easily have known that this was a no-brainer, action flick. If you expected anything else then you shouldn't be writing reviews for anything. Needless to say, the movie was not the greatest movie ever made. It wasn't even close. But I can say it was fun to watch. I would like to see where they take the story to in the next movie, "Resident Evil: Nemesis" in the works now.
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Summary: Sloppy and Boring
Review: RESIDENT EVIL is one of those movies you go into knowing that you won't get much out of other than a little dumb fun. Unfortunately, you don't get much of that here either, thanks to a razor-thin plot and alot of idea-snatching from superior films. The plot revolves around a company called the Umbrella Corporation, which does illegal viral research in an underground facility called the Hive, which in turn is monitored by an artificial intelligence component called the Red Queen. After a security breach, the Red Queen activates a defense mechanism in which all the Hive employees are trapped and summarily killed in the facility. At this point a tactical unit is dispatched to investigate, and that's where the so-called fun begins. Again, a movie like this is never known for its' character development or acting range, in which case Milla Jovovich acquits herself admirably in the lead role, looking sufficiently (hacked) off when the scene calls for it. Michelle Rodriquez does another one of her always-looks-mad-as-hell routines, which seems to be all she's good for and is frankly getting tiresome in every movie that she's in. All in all, video game afficionados would be better served renting TOMB RAIDER or even one of the MORTAL KOMBAT films. For typical movie-goers, I'd say pass.
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Summary: AWESOME!
Review: An awesome action packed on the edge of your seat horror movie with hot chicks.
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Summary: One Word - Awesome.
Review: Let me just say this; I was nervous bout seeing another Video Game turned Movie. Mortal Kombat was excellent, Mario Brothers was interesting and that is it. Tomb Raider, Final Fantasy (Great animation but I wished for more), Street Fighter; They were awful. Then I heard that the movie wasn't based on any of the Games; No STARS, no Birkin, no Racoon Mansion. I got even more worried. Then I saw it. Allow me to tell you that this was an awesome, kick-arse movie! I won't go into details on how the actors acted (which was good), how the enviroments were (Very gothic and dark), etc, but I will tell you all that, as a hardcore Resident Evil Fan, I was not dissappointed at all. This movie totally explains all the mysteries from Resident Evil 1: How did the virus escape, why is Racoon Mansion there, where did all those zombies come from? And the last 10 minutes put me in shock for the rest of the night. Look people, the game is Survivor Horror but its very hard to turn that into a movie. The game is meant to douse the player into an uncontrollable enviroment with limitied weapons and surprising elements. Resident Evil the movie is more like Action, yes, but it does to the actors what the game does to the players; Places them in an uncontrollable, hostile, enviroment with limited weapons. For horror fans - Its a good 'jump out at you' zombie movie. For Resident Evil fans - True Blue to the game. Considering its not following one of the published games out there, it is true blue and explains so much. I cannot wait for Nemesis to come out.
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