If you have low expectations, you will be impressed.

Rating: 1/10 (26 April 2002)

I went into Resident evil, having played all the games (except the survivor series...they suck) and I already had a pre-concieved notion of what this movie would be like. Personally, if I think a movie will be good I tend not to read movie reviews before I see as they can really throw your judgement going in.
First off I must say... I love the resident evil line of games, they are the only games I have ever owned, they seem to be the only games I like. I cant explain that, but solving puzzles and killing the living dead just does it for me. So when I heard that my fav game series is to be brought to life on film I thought, cool.
But then I heard who was directing it. Paul W.S.Anderson. Mr. Mortal Kombat... the man who helmed the unbelieveably bad "soldier" So thias lowered my expectations to almost flatlining. But, nonetheless I read some of the IMDB user comments on this movie and wel, most of them were in praise of it, so I took my chances and went to see it.
I must say My lower expectations helped a lot. I was genuinely frightened by this movie, the only other film that has ever scared me was the sixth sense. Dont get me wrong this is no where near that level of film, but it makes good on the genre its based. Although the score (of lack of) can be a tad annoying at times, distorted guitars dont always provide a good backrop and sometimes, it was unecessary.
If your reading, Im not going to say much about the story, cuz its resident evil, less I say is more for you. But the movie plays a lot like the game, the twists, the action... all very cool, and familiar.
I loved this film, because I love the games, it was just like another game. If you like the games, see it, if you dont...then you might not like it.