In all honesty, I actually think that Paul is a good director. He makes his movies look and feel like the story that is being told. In Resident Evil, he made the movie feel dark, but at the same time, he used colors that caught your eye and couldn't make you look away. He also did that in AvP. He made the setting and surrounds look artic with the greys and blues he used. Now, as far as story telling, he lacks in that department. To me, he tries to hard to tell a good story. It's like he's screaming at you, saying "listen to my story!" He's sort of the original M. Night if you think about. I mean, does anyone remember Mortal Combat? Sure it wasn't a true adaption of the game, but it was pretty damn good and is still the highest grossing video game adaption. I say do you remember Mortal Combat cause like M. NIght, Paul's first couple of films were good. Now his latest work lacks what it use to be. I sort of hoped he would make Castlevania (it was a small hope mind you), so that maybe he could go back to his old adaption roots and make this a kick ass movie. But since he is not attached to it, I really hope somebody like Xaviar, who's name I can't think of, (Hitman) or Christopher Gans (Silent Hill), will look as this project and go "hmm.....maybe?" Cause both of them, I think, have done the best adaptions to a video game. And by all means, KEEP UWE BOLL AWAY!!!!! He does not need to adapt another vampire video game (Bloodranye).