Big Resident Evil fan gives **1/2 stars out of 4

Rating: Null/10 (21 March 2002)

I been playing Resident Evil games forever now. I own all four games including the original version that came out in 1995. I must say I enjoyed the movie. I was entertained for 2 hrs, but it is clear Paul Anderson intended the movie to be for the younger audience. I liked the fact that the movie stood true to the game's story line with the exception of it's main character's but that did not bother me. What bothered me was the fact that I didn't jump once while watching the film, and not once did I get goosebumps. Horror? play the video games, those scare the hell out of me. This movie had techno and rock music playing in the background while funny looking zombie's are on screen looking to bite people. The zombie's are not scary at all, compared to George Romero's zombies, those were creepy, even John Landis' Zombies in the Micheal Jackson video Thriller looked creepier. Not once do you see the zombies in Resident Evil tearing flesh on rotting corpses. Watch Dawn of the Dead , and you'll see what I mean. I expected to be disturbed by this movie, like the games do to me, but unfortunatly not the case.
What's good about the movie is the story, decent acting by the sexy Milla, she's mint, as well as my favorite sexy gangsta chick Michelle Rodriguez. Too bad there's no S.T.A.R.S. members, like Wesker, Barry, Jill or Chris, but the screenplay is very similar to the game. Keys needed to access different parts of the lab, the crows, the lickers, security code's ,and even a sewer scene. All true Resident Evil fan's know a RE game is not an RE game without a Sewer level of some sort. Looks like there will be a sequel, This time the setting will be the street's of Raccoon city, like Resident Evil 3 "Nemesis" which is actually part 2 in the game series. I hope it is creepier, and scarier, and bloodier, because if the video game's have mature ratings to keep it away from minors, then the movie which is rated R should not be intended for the young audience as well.