The film that should of been Resident Evil!

Rating: 8/10 (20 April 2004)

I heard about this film and seen the adverts/trailer on TV. After taking a keen interest to the trailer i was wondering in my mind is this a real horror with gore blood and guts or is it another teen movie where 6 teenagers are stuck in a building one by one mysteriously disappearing with no logical reason only for the film to end with the pretty guy and the sexy girl survivng! This film is so not that!
This is chilling and frightening..it is the sort of film that when you walk out of the cinema you think a blood sucking zombie is going to jump out and start chewing away at your flesh! The main thing that makes this film real is that there are extremly little (if any)unrealistic computer generated graphics..its all done on make up and good acting! (when i mean computer generated graphics i mean like the Licker that appears at the end of Res Evil movie) It all starts off in a hospital where a main character is working as a nurse..being rushed on a wheely hospital bed is a guy who has a bite on his head *making this seem like something that requires stiches and can be treated easily"..at this time everything is totally normal..then when this young nurse go's home and gets to bed after a hard days work she and her husband wake up to something disturbing!...this is where it begins!...the horror starts here!
lol enough of me banging on..the film has that feeling of suspense that you need in a horror movie "OH MY GOD WHATS GONNA HAPPEN...oh no its only a pussy cat" sort of stuff where you think something bad is gonna happen and then it is just nothing at all,but then something will jump out and make you need to go to the toilet really badly! The film also has alot of comedy to it..one part..where the survivors are on the roof of the building where they escape to and across the street of a spectacular wave of living dead people is a man who owns a gun shop sat on the roof with a sniper rifle!..he on his own and Kenneth (Ving Rhames) are talking by writing down what ever it is they want to say on a whiteboard..they play chess but also Kenneth tells the guy which Zombie Celebrity lookalike he wants to shoot (like Burt Reynolds looking zombie) but its little funny bits like that make you realise that only in a film they can shed light on being trapped in a building surrounded by infected skin eating dead people!
The acting is fabulous but what makes it hard to believe is how the characters react to some of the situations. All in all this is the best horror i have seen yet (could be an all time great) and i would rate this top of the list as a must go see for 2004!
This one gets 8/10