One of the better game adaptations. Unfortunately, that's not saying a whole lot. This one is still my favorite in the series and I consider it to be a pretty decent film overall.
One of the better movies based on a video game out there (probably because of the game's backstory), Resident Evil is also a much better vehicle for Milla Jovovich than Underworld is for Kate Beckinsale (its closest cousin, as a multi-movie fantasy/sf franchise starring an action chick). In this first installment, "Alice" goes down the rabbit hole into the Hive, a super-secret facility where a zombie (boring)/monster (ah, better)-making virus has been loosed, and it's full of crazy traps in addition to the infected. As an example of that basic movie model, it works. It's fairly tense and exciting. But there's a twist. Alice starts the movie with amnesia, which is actually a pretty clever way to reproduce a video game narrative where you're discovering your back story as you go. Now, I have no real expectation that further movies in the franchise are really gonna be good, but I'm at least interested, which is more than I can say for Underworld.
The dialogue is horrible, the setting ridiculous, the characters impossible to relate to, including the unnamed Alice whom you can recognize from a certain video game.
Overall 10/10. The movie reveals perhaps unparalleled, archetypal naivete that reaches a cosmic scale and leaves an imprint on your life - you will never be the same once you realize that on the part on the director this was a Herculean labor with the intention of creating a Form that reveals all of the characteristics of the often unappreciated world of Japanese spaghetti ingenue-meets-world plots. It's a journey that takes you from the fringes of geeky video games to the worst traditions of Hollywood, whilst somehow molding the two into Ideas that harness real life, a feat the greats could only dream about.
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Sviggolo
This movie surprised me because it wasn't as bad as i expected it to be. A lot of good twists and turns that kept me watching to the end.DonkeysRAliens
Unintentionally hilariouscyphax
One of the better game adaptations. Unfortunately, that's not saying a whole lot. This one is still my favorite in the series and I consider it to be a pretty decent film overall.Agent69
Surprisingly decent.mcmakattack
When they sample Michelle Rodriguez in the middle of the Nu Metal ballad during the credits \m/Siskoid
One of the better movies based on a video game out there (probably because of the game's backstory), Resident Evil is also a much better vehicle for Milla Jovovich than Underworld is for Kate Beckinsale (its closest cousin, as a multi-movie fantasy/sf franchise starring an action chick). In this first installment, "Alice" goes down the rabbit hole into the Hive, a super-secret facility where a zombie (boring)/monster (ah, better)-making virus has been loosed, and it's full of crazy traps in addition to the infected. As an example of that basic movie model, it works. It's fairly tense and exciting. But there's a twist. Alice starts the movie with amnesia, which is actually a pretty clever way to reproduce a video game narrative where you're discovering your back story as you go. Now, I have no real expectation that further movies in the franchise are really gonna be good, but I'm at least interested, which is more than I can say for Underworld.sandman235
Waste of timetotavo
Pretty good, but a lot of the acting was a little rough.IreneAdler
Not so bad. Nice suspense and thrill, pretty scary at times.kidijs
The dialogue is horrible, the setting ridiculous, the characters impossible to relate to, including the unnamed Alice whom you can recognize from a certain video game.Overall 10/10. The movie reveals perhaps unparalleled, archetypal naivete that reaches a cosmic scale and leaves an imprint on your life - you will never be the same once you realize that on the part on the director this was a Herculean labor with the intention of creating a Form that reveals all of the characteristics of the often unappreciated world of Japanese spaghetti ingenue-meets-world plots. It's a journey that takes you from the fringes of geeky video games to the worst traditions of Hollywood, whilst somehow molding the two into Ideas that harness real life, a feat the greats could only dream about.
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Yet another of those silly zombie stories. You may have a try to watch just for Jovovich though!naruto-uzumaki
its a good resident evilMatsRon
Terrible adaption of a great series, imo.Crazyio
one of my favorites zombie movies :)Captain Qynce
As soon as she showed up, I was just like inb4, pretty white girl and random attractive male are the only survivors.