BEWARE R.E. FANS! THIS ONE IS NOT FOR YOU! THIS FILM WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER IF THEY HAD BASED IT OFF OF R.E.: SURVIVOR!

Rating: 4/10 (17 March 2002)

When I first heard abot a studio making a Resident Evil movie and that there was a George Romero (KING of ALL living dead movies) script floating around, I was totally psyched! Then, I heard they got rid of Romero's script, but was still keeping him to direct. Despite getting rid of his script, I was still very excited to see this film. As long as Romero was directing the film, that meant there would be as little CGI made gore as possible. Then, they got rid of Romero all together, and decided not to make a Resident Evil movie bsed off of one of the games. This is when the trouble began...
For some reason, some stupid studio decided to let Paul Anderson do YET another video game movie. Now, this guy has never made a good film in his life. Event Horizon anyone?
Anyway, as for the film itself, is was just plain horrible (actually not al of it, but I'll cover that lter on). Anderson decided to make the film as a prequel to the original Resident Evil game. Now, that isn't why this film is bad. In fact a prequel could have made a very good movie. But alas, this was not to be. Ironically, the film began to decline when the zombies began to appear.
WARNING: THIS NEXT PARAGRAPH IS SOME WHAT OF A SPOILER!
The film begins very good. It shows the slaying of the employees of the evil Umbrella Corporation (something not really explained in an ofthe games). Then a sweet introduction of a naked Milla Johokavich in her shower, which is followed by a sequence involving cool looking soldiers (borrowing the costumes from H.U.N.K. characters in the second game). Then there's the basic explaining of the plot. Then, the zombies show up. The part that should of been the sweetest part of the movie. More on this later. Then, after the meat of the film (which even included a sappy sub-plot of hitman for hire), there is the ending. Now, I'm no pervert, but who doesn't want to see Milla Johokovich wearing nothing but what looks like a napkin? Anyway, there is an opening for a possible sequel (including the possibility of a Nemisis creature in the sequel). Now, this is all fine and dandy, but unfortunately an opening for a sequel doesn't really count if the actual movie was so horrible.
"We tried to use as little computer animated gore as possible." A quote from writer/director Paul Anderson in the April issue of Play Station Magazine. He pretty much lied. The zombies where so fake it was scary. And the licker? Holy dirt, it looked more computer animated then the one in the game! It was like a cartoon!
And, last and DEFIANTLY least, the acting. You could tell all of the actors were in it for the money, and Michelle Rodriguez was especially horrible (she also had the worst one liners, but that's just bad writing courtesy of Paul Anderson).
Now, if you are a fan of the games like myself (my favorite being Code: Veronica),you will probably want to go see this movie, and by the end will want your eight dollars back. Also, you'll notice that whenever any of the other IMDB users say that they thought the film as good, you'll notice, they always seem to claim that they don't really like or never really played the game.
All in all, I give this game four stars out of ten, and it only deserves this for the beginning and end.