Loved it

Rating: 9/10 (5 April 2005)

(Checked "spoiler" for a brief mention of the plot in paragraph three)
First of all, I'm not into video games (gasp!), except for Age of Empires II, which I inhale. So this is the perspective of someone who's never played Resident Evil, the game.
I watched this while working at my computer via a cable TV feed being piped into a little window in the top corner of my desktop window (Sci-Fi channel), but about 20 minutes in I quit pretending to work, went full-screen, sat back and watched. I was amazed. Yes there were some unrealistic elements, but I think this is a beautiful movie, really well done. It has a wonderful mix of suspense, creepiness, futuristic cool, and a good story.
Milla Jovovich is AWESOME. She played her role perfectly, achieving a perfect mix of brains, bad-ass action hero, sexiness, and sympathetic figure who actually cares about human life and saving everybody in the group that's trying to escape the Hive.
I'm writing this comment having just rented and watched Resident Evil 2- which I've been eagerly anticipating for a couple years now, having loved the first one so much. I'll eventually post my comments about the second one on the appropriate board, but briefly, it sucked in comparison. It was enjoyable as an action movie, but everything that was awesome about #1 is missing in #2. #2 is ultimately forgettable, but #1 is a movie I'm going to dig up and watch every so often.