Ends where it should start.

Rating: Null/10 (16 June 2002)

I love the RE games and love the Romero zombie flicks, so I was really looking foward to RE the film. On the plus side - it looks good, it does link in with the games and last scene is quite cool. Negatives - its 40 mins or so before any zombie action, there is far too much looking at monitors-type stuff and its not very gory. My hopes of a big budget zombie genre revival have been dashed for the moment. I hope RE:Nemesis does the job this failed to do. For me the appeal of the Romero films was the end of the world premise, RE evil only touches on this in the last 2 minutes or so.
Overall, its a fair no-brainer and it may be the start of of decent franchise. Its not citizen kane and its not even Savini's NOTLD remake, but hey, its a zombie film with a big budget, theres another on the way, and thats ok with me.