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WOW, is how I describe this Movie that seemed to bring back the Zombie Format and making it something superb! I went into this movie initially with little expectation and was quickly Blown Away immediately following the 'Elevator" Scene, and from there it was a Roller Coaster of Fun, Fright and Fears! Milla Jovovich's Alice is a great Heroine, ranked right up there with Ripley, Laurie, and dare I say Buffy! She kicks Ass and looks great doing it! The affects in the Movie were spectacular especially the "you slicem and dicem" security/blue rays...As a Fan of the Zombie Movie, this one ranks High on my list and I highly Recommend it to anyone who just wants to have a good time watching something with intelligence, nerve and sophistication, and who says Horror can't have these elements and still be taken seriously! The War in Raccoon City rages On!!
Zombies, acion, horror, good script, awesome performances... I really like it. I know that it isn't a good adaptation, but it's simply visual and intense and the movie works.
I haven't words to say what I felt in the laser scene...
where to begin, ohh here we go. This movie wasn't gold, no it was a disk in a plastic case the secret is watching the movie that is where the gold comes in at. Although the movie did not follow the games I love how Capcom tried an all new direction so I give major props. This movie had everything from laser grid walls to the infamous Lickers. This movie seemed to have multiple climax's leaving the audience with endless pleasure, sounds like every girlfriend I've ever had. Also there was a proven study saying anyone who didn't like the resident evil movies was too busy in a foursome with two homeless guys? PimpNasty out!
Great movie and from a huge fan of the games I say this... They didn't follow the game, but brought a great story to it anyways... I truely enjoyed this movie each time I've seen it and recommend it for any fan of horror... Hate can only be made because of the differences from the game to the movie, but its a new identity.
this movie was great, the fact that they even thought of making a movie from the video game is amazing. although it doesnt have many elenents from the video games, its very good, it doesnt have to have all the elements. apart from that i enjoyed this movie. but the games are much better.
Yaaaaaawn. Ugly and an insult to the video game. OMG! It's Michelle Rodriguez playing a bad ass I'm not going to take any of your shit chick! Surprise surprise!
I truly believe that a movie that is based 100% on the Resident Evil games (with the exception of 0) would be the scariest horror films ever. When I heard they were doing a movie I was stoked. Then you get none of the core characters. You get the "licker" at the end, and the beginning of the Nemesis. It's just total bull crap, and a slap in the face to all Resident Evil die-hards.
I really didnt expect much from this movie just b/c it was based on a video game but i was wrong. I loved it. It was actually a good action horror flick and it sure beat the hell out of doomsday for me. after doomsday i told myself i wouldn't watch another movie like it and i felt weird about renting this but i am sure glad i did. too bad the sequels werent as good.
Posted By: GRUDGE4life at 11:27am, January 22, 2009
i loved this movie, but a little tiny problem i had was that it did not live up to the hype like other zombie films do...
I loved it. I remember when this first came out I was so excited that they were going to make a movie about the awesome game franchise. Great movie followed by an even better sequel.
Posted By: Protecious at 10:15pm, September 30, 2008
why is george romero listed as a writer to this film? this is news to me, if this is true this should have been a better movie than it was overhyped to be
Posted By: RedSabbath at 11:22am, September 20, 2008
(Please Note: This is a review of the September 2007 DVD re-release of "Resident Evil/Resident Evil:Apocalypse-Resurrection Edition" DVD Box Set. The rating is based on the whole DVD content presentation.)
For those who haven't seen probably the most successful adaptation of a video game to live-action film franchise, you might get a kick out of Resident Evil. Starring Milla Jovovich as Alice, a chief security officer for Raccoon City's Umbrella Corporation. Within Umbrella's secret lab called The Hive, a deadly T-Virus accidently gets released, turning most living things into blood-thirsty zombies. Alice, with strange implanted memories haunting her as well, must find a way to stop the virus with a group of various similarly heroic characters, ending up with one last battle with a very large super mutant in end's way.
Sound like a video game? Well both the first and second chapter here at times plays out like one, even though minus a few established characters, the storyline here veers off the original plot laid out by Capcom's original playable ones. But to the moderate, and even the more dedicated ones like myself, Resident Evil is a decent addition into Zombiedom. Of course it's not going to surpass original works like 80's Italian fare or George Romero's original trilogy (even though he was rumored to direct/write the first installment, only to be turned away), but there has been worse Zombie films and Jovovich does do a good job playing the lead.
As for this new re-release combo of the first two films, I was expecting the cheap way out with maybe the original '02 release one discer of the first movie packaged with the Disc One of the sequel. But surprisingly that's not the case. The discs in this set are a brand new piece, with Disc One having BOTH movies on the same DVD-9 single sided, dual layer disc. This was very cool, with a brand new menu with one movie per layer, with only two audio tracks (5.1 English/French). You'd expect that the bitrate would be very low for these movies, but since this was re-encoded in 2007, both movie's rate seem very high, and picture looking superb for SD. As for the second disc, it's a mixed bag. If you were expecting all the bonus features from the 2 Disc individual releases, forget it. Since this release was made just to promote the theatrical release of the third film, '07's somewhat disapointing Extinction, they mostly deal with sneak peeks of it. However, there are a few extras outside of Number Three, but they all deal with Apocalypse, so no behind-the-scenes of the original, not to mention the films themselves are missing their commentaries from those as well. There is a neat trivia game on Disc Two with some pretty hardcore questions on Apocalypse, but they could have easily given us more than what they did.
Overall, this is a great way to get the first two films at a good price if all you're really looking for is the movies and a morsel of extras. As I write this, it's been a year since this was released and I doubt it will be in print for much longer due to Extinction now old news on DVD. But if you don't own the first two films and have interest in modern-day Zombies I'd suggest picking it up cheap, then if you really, really like the films, spend the extra buck and buy the extensive 2 Disc versions and with Extinction, or wait for a possible complete boxset in the future.
(RedSabbath Rating:8.0/10)
First off, I am the biggest fan of the games there is. I own and beat all the new ones (GameCube to present), and played the older ones. I would kill a man to get a copy of RE5 before March of next year. The game are so amazing because they're scarier than any movie I've ever seen. The atmosphere, the camera angles . . . the games reek of terror, thus they're amazing.
This movie was not an adaption of any of the RE games. It didn't even come close to matching their terror. There were a few RE elements: the opening with Alice waking up and putting on the dress, and the ending. Those two things were exactly like the games, and deserve a perfect 10 . . .
. . . except the other 3/4ths of the movie lagged, hardcore. Some of the lines were absolutely terrible. Some of the zombies scenes weren't that great, and didn't echo the intensity the game has. Add some boring stretches, some lame environments, lame characters (minus Alice), and all that unused potential the games had for movie form.
All that said, I liked this better than a lot of lame zombie movies I've seen---including Romero. Why? Because pretty much every zombie movie is stale and boring after you've played zombie games like Dead Rising, Resident Evil 4, and the upcoming Bikini Zombie Slayers. Movies just can't mirror the intensity of having 100 zombies come after you. They just use boring talking scenes, have a few zombie attacks every now and then, and call it a movie. Whereas zombie games you are CONSTANTLY doing something, constantly killing zombies or being killed by them.
That's why most every zombie movie I have seen sucked. They can't match the game intensity. Not even close. Though 30 Days of Night was a vampire movie, I think that is closer to game-level intensity than any zombie movie out there.
This movie doesn't quite match the games in that intensity or scariness, but it's a step forward with it.
Though it's not as well-made as some of the other zombie movies I've seen, I find it superior because it has that true zombie-terror feel. I'd take this over Night of the Living Dead any day of my life.
this movie wasnt scary to me, but the story line was good.zombies, infections, bio-weapons, mutant dogs, what more could you ask for in a movie! it was a good movie, and the actors were good. milla kicked ass!
The best part of "Resident Evil" is its ending, which is far better than the film preceding it deserves. Paul W.S. Anderson is a director I look out for, and not because I'm "seeking" his films out but rather because I'm avoiding them. If there is one thing he can do, however, it is make a visually interesting film.
I find the error of his ways to be due to his bad choices in casting and writing. "Resident Evil" falls flat mainly due to its weak and thread-thin plot, which Anderson almost attempts to make complex and more self-important than it is with a "plot twist". Some of the parts of the film are laughable, and Anderson is so bent on drawing in the teenage male demographic that he even resulting to using "Matrix" stylized wire-fu. Sadly, I'm guessing this worked because we know have a handful of sequels of even lesser quality.
I do believe that "Resident Evil" is among the better video-game adaptations existing currently, though it is obvious that video game adaptations haven't received the kind of serious treatment that comic book films have undergone as of lately when this is among the best we have to speak about.
See it, but keep your expectations in check and your brain at the door. Hell, just through it out a goddamn window.
What do you expect from Paul W.S Anderson but trashy, laughable movies. I hate him but really enjoyed this film. It's a good popcorn film, or as my father used to say "Bubble Gum for the eyes".
It doesn't really follow the game at all (And I'm a geeky fan of the games). But I enjoyed it because it looked like a computer game anyway.
While Resident Evil does not have the scares the games do, it is a good action-horror, and leaves you on the edge of your seat and eager to see the next movie.
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