Horrible, absolutely horrendous.

Rating: 1/10 (29 September 2012)

I'm embarrassed that people liked this film. The success of this disgustingly bad franchise really symbolizes cultural decay and the triumph of the room temperature IQ movie goer.
Paul Anderson threatens audience with a sequel at the end of this film and follows through...with 4 of them.
There is a lot wrong with this film, I don't even know where to begin. Paul Anderson took the original Resident Evil story line and concepts and totally butchered them.
There's the premise of "well why tell the RE story." Well why the F*CK call it resident evil if your going to butcher the classic story line? Why not call it something appropriately stupid like "Paul Anderson's Death Metal and Machine guns House of the undead"?
How about when they remade godzilla they made it a movie about killer clowns from the evil giant dinosaur planet or something completely irrelevant/ridiculous and been like "Oh well we didn't want to just re- tell the original godzilla story line."
You can follow through with the original story, and build on it. Hone, out make it better, add more back story to characters, add side story and remain true to the original story without completely mangling it.
There's no character development. Actor dialogue consists of commands, exclamations. I was actually glad when they were systematically/predictable killed off. No depth, Anderson cops out by giving the main character amnesia and a 2 minute filler explanation by the Umbrella team comander. Figuring well hey if I just get milla to flash her tits and pull her dress up a little, I can out of having to write a script that contains any substance and just blare death metal to machine gun fire and call the movie a hit.
You could literally play the scenes in any order in this movie and it'd make no difference. Go into room A- shoot zombies with machines guns Room B- Karate chop kung fu kick zombies Room C- get killed by evil computer
-The fight sequences were stupid, exaggerated and unrealistic. Alice Matrix kicks a dog, kung fu punches a zombie and snaps a zombie's neck with her thighs at blaring sound of death rock metal. -Machine guns that do not need to be aimed, and apparently never run out of bullets.
If you're shot with a machine gun in this movie you go airborne like superman, so yeah, it's one of those movies.
-The virus escapes from an AIRTIGHT room where people are wearing bio- suits connected to hoses to even enter.....through an air vent.
The game story line was actually survival horror and unfolded the story line in suspenseful way. Characters have limited ammunition, and focus mainly on uncovering umbrella plot while developing a deep back story. We gain insight into who these individuals were and what they were doing while developing this virus which turned them into zombies. While doing so, they are separated from each other a extremely low on ammunition and simply trying to make it out the mansion alive.
Paul W.S. Anderson's version is essentially a group of people with machine guns blasting, matrix kicking, kung fu punching their way through "the hive" to the sound of heavy metal death rock and occasionally inserts a snippet from the original concept as if to remind you what could have been.