As close as you can get!

Rating: Null/10 (26 October 2004)

The 1996 Video Game of "Resident Evil" 1 for PS 1 was the game that saved CAPCOM and put the Zombie theme back into fashion again. Unfortunately, this game was too difficult to survive and a few follow uppers were created as result.
Inspired also by the films from the late sixties to early nineties this game was solid and scary. The game plot was simple. A police officer in trouble, short of ammo, chased by zombies, inside a mansion and outside in the city. It was perfect.
One of the main inspirations was George A. Romero's "Dawn of the Dead (1978)"
2002, Paul W.S. Anderson directed an American film named after the game: Resident Evil (2002) This film had a great commercial budget and created anticipation in every individual that had survived the game.
This film was a disaster in every and each way. incomparable with the original even though many didn't think a film based on a game could get much better. (Short skirts, lousy actors and a completely confused director with a corrupt cause.) Not even the untalented Milla Jovovich's "sexual" outfit and the computerized film effects could save the day.
Only an experienced player and devoted fan to the classics could understand this exploitation.
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) was a later film starring the same Milla Jovovich working/flirting with another director (Alexander Witt) But the script was still written by Paul W.S. Anderson. This film was better that the first but still lacked substance.
One of the reactions of this incompetence became a masterwork and probably the best horror film of this decade.
Dawn of the Dead (2004) (Zack Snyder) is the modern remake/screenplay of the Dawn of the Dead (1978). And it does not go back to Resident evil but to the source of resident evil's inspiration (Dawn of the dead). Through this, middle hands were reduced and with the help of their creativity and knowledge in psychology this team succeeded in creating a film that make Paul W.S. Anderson Resident evils loose face. And after that, I think Milla Jovovich can stick to something else.
If you like resident evil, this is the movie to watch. And if you don't like it, then contact me about how and why.