If you've seen Solyaris, DO NOT WATCH THIS!

Rating: Null/10 (30 July 2003)

This movie is by far the worst rip-off job of a film's plot that I have ever seen. This movie is just Solyaris turned horror film. Terribly done and about as visually stunning as an Ed Wood film. Just because a movie uses cliched sound effects and gore, does not make it a great horror film.

I don't really like Anderson's style. Won't deny that. He takes too many liberties from Craven and Carpenter in this film and tries to re-hash some of the feelings evoked from Scott's Alien, and Kubrick's The Shining. Now I do realize that he didn't write this screenplay, so I can't lay total blame on him but when it actually comes to direction, the man does not have an original bone in his body.
Even Resident Evil ripped off other films like Cube, Omega Man, and Night of the Living Dead (though it was intended to borrow from Living Dead, I guess). Either way, this guy can't come up with anything of his own. At least the hack-jobber Kurt Wimmer can come up with some 'gun-fu' thing. It still sucks but I guess he can claim that as his own. Anderson can't even do that with his 'techniques.'
2.5/10 And only because the ship looked cool!