Possibly the worst attempt at the horror genre.

Rating: 1/10 (4 March 2004)

I honestly believe that Paul Anderson thinks adding heavy metal music to a zombie-littered action sequence will somehow improve the genre of 'horror'. What he fails to see is that Resident Evil in all aspects *should* be regarded as a horror film (with elements of action.) What he has managed to create is some obscene attempt at all-out action (involving horror elements.) What could possibly go wrong with that? Well, in all honesty; horror isn't scary with some teenage metal band pounding your ears whilst a plague of zombies fills the screen, looking very unimpressive. Where's the atmosphere? Play the video game - you get bucket-loads; so why isn't that reflected in the film? I was very disappointed that the film is obviously aimed at the male 15-18 teenage-angst market, although I guess that's to be expected, as it is a videogame. Overall, tedium... unless you're into loud shouty heavy music interrupting a (quite stylistically) shot movie. Just hope he doesn't **** it up with Alien versus Predator... Yet that will be aimed at the same market. Gah! Still, nothing can be as bad as Mortal Kombat... How could a person who made something as stunningly tense and atmospheric as Event Horizon make trite like MK and Resident Evil?
I voted this film as a 1-star.