One of the best Video game to movie translations...

Rating: 10/10 (16 March 2002)

After the whole George Romero fiasco I was torn...The early buzz on the film made it look as if the film wasn't very faithful to the game which was odd considering that Romero was let go because reportedly his script was not faithfull to the game...Why was this odd? Well Romero's script had characters from the first game including the monsters and if produced it would have been a filmed version of the first game with only a few liberties taken...The Paul Anderson script contained no characters from any of the games except for the monsters...hmm I finally broke down and went to see the film...
This one easily ranks up there with the best video game to film translations...Tomb Raider, Mortal Kombat...and now Resident Evil... This film contains everything from the games except for the main characters...Zombies, ghoulish mutating Licker, crows and zombie dogs yes most of the monsters have made into the film...The creepy camera angles from the game are also in the film...Playing like a prequel to the game series Anderson gives fans of the games and Romero's Living dead films a real treat...
SCARES:Quite a few...I pride myself on nothing ever getting to me in a horror film...This one did...I found that I was getting real jumpy...-10
VIOLENCE/GORE:Lots of gunplay, Martial arts, Bloody zombies(No actual feeding scenes-As Romero often shows in very graphic detail)...Laser grid violence...-10
SEX/NUDITY-Milla has a couple of very revealling scenes(WHY DO PARENTS TAKE THEIR YOUNG ONES, REALLY YOUNG ONES TO SEE AN R-RATED ZOMBIE FLICK,I mean even the games are an R-rated concept)-10 for the very beautiful Milla...
LANGUAGE-Some Profanity...-7
OVERALL-This so far is the best film I've seen this year...Non-stop action...great acting, scary atmosphere, great monsters...Creepy Camera angles...-10 Highly recommended...