Three positive aspects pass this film.

Rating: Null/10 (7 May 2002)

Nice introduction, very cool laser-beam scene and pretty darn good ending does NOT make me appreciate 'Resident Evil' as one of the better films of 2002. Spoiled by silly characters who you didn't care about, music-video style directing and action-sequences marred by choppy editing and heavy-metal music all eventually got very annoying. The zombies were hardly scary and not used effectively, the red queen was irritating and the mutant zombie was wasted. It felt like a video-game movie, and that's what it is, but 'Resident Evil' didn't become a zombie film in it's own right. Milla Jovovich was good but her character was stupid, but Michelle Rodriguez takes the cake for most annoying character award. Paul Anderson uses every cliche in the horror film genre to try create suspense to the extent it got cheesy. How can you be scared for characters that you couldn't care less about. 'Resident Evil' would get a lower mark, if it wasn't for the three saving graces that I mentioned in the opening sentence. **1/2 out of *****