Some good action but not much more

Rating: 6/10 (10 March 2014)

The Umbrella corporation dominates the world. In an accident at its secret underground facility called "The Hive", a dangerous virus is let loose. It has infected the staff turning them into zombies while mutant creatures run free. The computer Red Queen shuts down the complex and kills everybody inside. Alice (Milla Jovovich) finds herself with amnesia in a house that has a secret entrance to the underground labs. The corporation sends in an elite armed squad (Colin Salmon, Michelle Rodriguez) who finds amnesic Alice and Spence (James Purefoy), and they go in to investigate.
Based on the video game, director/writer Paul W.S. Anderson brings some interesting gore into the movie. The characters are two dimensional. But it does what it intends to do and not much more. It's mostly atmosphere in the first half. Then there is shoot them up horror action but nothing terribly scary. And hot Jovovich doing battle with zombies and mutants. The flashbacks as Alice remembers is distracting and usually disrupts the flow. The video game genre doesn't usually get much better.