Baah!

Rating: 1/10 (26 March 2006)

Poor at best. The gritty horror of the games has been swapped for really incompetent soldiers posing for the camera with massive guns. The only cool bit is the "laser net" sequence which is both graphic, and hugely entertaining.
I mean i've seen more realistic zombies coming home on a Friday night out. They just grope a bit and then stop bothering.
The soldiers really are stupid. They, despite the obvious risk, go into the bunker and get brutally butchered, showing no military know how at all.What ruined it for me was the typical characters. For example, you've got the bitchy butch women soldier who is really ugly posing around dark corners for the entire film. You've got the "good" soldier who gets murdered in the most painful way. You've got the woman who loses her memory and gets it back, discovering she has got kung-fu skills. It is SO old and predictable. They have been done a million times before.
It was not even scary. The moment you see the monsters, you think "my god - they are so not scary" There is no suspense, and when scenes to get a bit "creepy" (though no way near as creepy as say, aliens), the chance for a scare is ruined by the "scare" being a member of the team.
The acting is pretty standard. You would expect the soldiers to be absolutely s****** them selves, but they just accept their fate with very little emotion. The special effects are also pretty average- when the licker arrived i thought it was a cat.
The film explains nothing about umbrella corparation and why they have made such hideous monsters. Well to be fair, it does a bit at the beginning, but the rest of the film is ALL the same. Posing. With guns.