Better than I expected

Rating: 7/10 (8 November 2002)

After reading some of the other comments on this movie, it appears that the voting comes down to this: either you thought it was awful, dumb, unoriginal, etc, or that the movie was actually better than expected. I fall into the latter category. I've never played the Resident Evil video games, so I really had no expectations for the movie. I just thought it might be interesting to see if they could make Resident Evil, the movie, better than Final Fantasy, the Movie (which was pretty disappointing). And surprise - it was much better than I expected. Somewhat predictable, but the action scenes were well done, the scares were pretty scary, and I didn't think the acting was bad at all. The movie worked for me. If you want some entertaining distraction for an evening, get a bag of popcorn and pop this movie into the DVD player - it's a fun movie.