Best Horror movie to come out in the last 20 years

Rating: 10/10 (10 September 2002)

I have played and beaten all of the games even the one for gameboy the only one i haven't played is the gun survivor one. At the time that I saw the movie however I was a bit upset with the RE series I had just beaten Code Veronica X and was disappointed by the fact that is was just a 128-bit RE nothing really new and wasn't scary at all. But that aside I had seen the add for it and thought it might be mindless fun. I knew Paul Anderson was directing it and I had seen Event Horizon prior to this movie. I thought Event Horizon was decent and quite scary so with that and the fact that RE is a video game movie i wasn't expecting to much. Well wasn't I surprised because this is the best movie of 2002 yet and probably the most well made horror film since The Thing. The acting is well on and any bad actors seem to be killed in the beginning. SPOILER Like the two guys in the laser hall who has his fingers cut off and then the guy who is cut in half END SPOILER. Milla does a fine job granted she isn't given as big a roll as say Joan of Arc this time but she definitely does a better job here then in that movie. Not since ALIEN have I seen a film with so much atmosphere which is definitely helped by the score by Marilyn Manson.
Clearly Paul Anderson was the right way to go, had Romero done this it would have been a movie that went into the true evils of the Umbrella Corp. Also Anderson seems to know more about RE then even someone like me even the train that they ride on is identical to the one in 2 (it says ALEXI 3000 or something in the front of the train). The only real problem is some clear cut exposition in the intro and a bit in the beginning but as the s?*! starts to hit the fan there is no more explaining.
I can't recommed a better modern horror movie the production values are amazing. Granted maybe my understanding of the game helps me like this movie so much which by the way is very faithful to the game even if there are different characters. Great Movie.