'A secret experiment. A deadly virus. A fatal mistake.' Yeah,it was a fatal mistake!

Rating: Null/10 (22 November 2004)

This review may contain spoilers. I have been playing the Resident Evil series for nearly as long as they have been around, and as my username suggests, i have a very large passion of them. Therefore i was horrified when the film was finally made. Not horrified by the 'horror' (loose term) but by the way it was made. For starters, there is no-one in the film who is actually from the game, and the settings are just as abstract. What a stupid concept. Surely the idea of making a film of a game is to actually BASE it on the game. Apparently not, according to Paul W.S Anderson whose track record includes 'Mortal Kombat' (not a bad film from a game adaption point of view) and the huge flop 'Alien Versus Predator'. The film is a complete insult to the games and should have been made by someone who knows what they are doing. Not play the games for 5 minutes then see what you can invent to be made into a film. Mila Jovovich ruins it to. The entire film is focused around her and what involvement she has with Umbrella. I can tell you that- NONE! She is the main character and yet is not in any of the games. In fact, she is getting married to Paul W.S Anderson and i have a strong reason to believe this has something to do with her role. Where were the S.T.A.R.S team? Or the hunters? A terrible film, yet being a film student it is my vow to write a better script and show the world what the fantastic story is all about. Before Paul W.S. Anderson does anything else (he is working on a third Resident Evil film).