THE best video game movie ever made! 2nd best Zombie flick!

Rating: 8/10 (17 March 2002)

The good: -Good fight sequences -Great Score -Faithful to not just the first game but also incorporates elements from RE2 and RE3:Nemesis -I loved Milla she was perfect as the heroine -Good camera work. Had some nice cuts and contrast -Good sense of atmosphere -I liked the computer and the "Alice in Wonderland" parallels.
The bad: -Mood would have been even better if they had a little less music. Nothing is more suspenseful than silence. -As a previous reviewer said "they cut away from all the extreme gorey scenes". This needed to be done for an "R" rating but I hope they put it on DVD uncut.
The ugly: -The box office asking me for I.D. to see a rated "R" movie(I am 26 years old) I missed first 10 minutes from the hold-up caused by this policy to everyone else in line. -All of the reviewers on this site who use the same old tired arguments against this movie: e.g. --it is an "Aliens" rip-off! ("Aliens" didn't invent the war/action movie, and why does no one have trouble with the fact that "Aliens" itself totally robbed Heinlein's "Starship Troopers" with NO credit. given! --it is a "Matrix" rip-off! (Again, "Matrix" only pioneered the "camera rotation" effect. The bullet effects were done in "Blade" first(pre-Matrix) or even in "Firestarter" (pre-Blade). The karate moves(wall kick-off) were done in "kung fu" movies for years and also by this director in "Mortal Kombat" first. The karate/action by "leather-clad" protagonists set to blaring techno music was also done by "Blade" before "Matrix". So ends this "Matrix rip-off" argument. --it is a "Night of the Living Dead" rip-off! (Well duh! Find me ANY zombie flick that isn't. Yes, this incorporates the CONCEPT of "Night of the Living Dead" or should I say Matheson's "I am Legend", but not the same story. This concept has just become an ingredient to any movie dealing with this subject matter, it will never be "new".)

Summation: This is a decent horror/suspense movie that could have been better but is "O.K." as is. It is just a movie.