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Rating: 10/10 (17 March 2002)

This movie is superb for what it supposed to be. Don't let the people who obviously never played the games, haven't seen the movie, or can understand artistic impression fool you. If you've played the game, it makes sense.
I have to say that I disagree with a few comments about this being a movie for kids. It has nudity, extreme violence, language, and really graphic gore. So parents beware. As far as the people bashing the movie because it has a little Night of the Living Dead or Alien "rips offs"....uh HELLO, that is what the game is all about. The GAME is a rip off of the Living Dead movies. If they didn't include those things, people would have been complaining about that. The movie is very true to the game, and the games popularity revolves around those other movies. It has the birds, the dogs, the dead, the licker, the train, the mansion, the chic, the conspiracy, etc. It may not have them in the same sense as the game, or frequency, as in the case of the dogs, but they are there (note: the birds, when Milla walks outside the mansion). Some other reviewers are saying that they can't believe how long it takes them to figure out the "head shot" theory. How many zombies in the game die with one shot? You guys are looking at this from the wrong angle. Did you guys think Saving Pvt Ryan sucked because it had scenes really similar to those old John Wayne movies? Sure they could have made the movie more like the game, making them walk back and forth between 8 rooms solving puzzles, but then how boring would that have been? Enough with the rant...the movie rocks, go see it so they will make a sequel. It has the jolts and jumps of a true horror movie, the pace is upbeat and it never bogs down. I don't believe they made this movie to be an Oscar contender anyway. Look at it for what it is. It is a great escape just like the game.
10/10