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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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