Video game to movie adaptions suck, or so the saying goes...

Rating: 6/10 (7 November 2003)

I'd have to say that Resident Evil is one of the few video game movies I have ever been at least moderately entertained by. I didn't think it was a good movie, but it was an entertaining mindless romp of zombie killing fun.

Sure the script is weak, the acting is horrible, and the direction is needlessly formulaic, but hey it still is kind of fun to watch. Watching the movie is similar to playing through one of the video games, and that's all you should take it as. I can understand why most people and critics didn't like it. But I went to this movie expecting a mindless zombie killing adventure, that's exactly what I got.
For fans of the game series, the movie provides some interesting back story. It probably could have been about 20 times better if Romero would have directed it, but I heard that he was straying heavily from the Resident Evil plot line already established in the games. Oh well, I guess we'll have to wait for the Night of the Living Dead 4.
Anyway, I give it ** out of **** stars...