this actually IS an INTELLECTAL movie

Rating: 10/10 (9 January 2006)

many people say this movie is not deep, not intellectual, whereas movies like The Matrix is. I loved The Matrix but I have to say that Resident Evil is very much intellectual in a different way. How often in life is it that our family members, friends, and relatives, seem like zombies? In a way, this movie says more about humanity and says it more realistically than The Matrix, because in this movie, the enemies are other people, and often in life our enemies are other people, sometimes the ones closest to us. Also, many times in life, a person who is right about something (for example, the guy who thought the earth was round when everyone else around him thought he was an idiot, or the people who wanted to abolish racism when 99% of the people around them were racist) may live in a society in which 90% of the other people attack him for it. This is like the zombies attacking the small group of main characters. The zombies are also very cruel, eating other people, and isn't this similar to how many people are against George Bush, but have absolutely no way of getting through to the people who support Bush how wrong they are? Are the people who support Bush, not like Zombies who have gone mad and cruel and flesh-eating, and who we seem unable to stop? Are people who support Bush not very blind and "mutated", as those zombies in the movie were? Is Bush himself not like the last monster in this movie, huge powerful and just plain nasty? This movie is so representative of real life that it's really just awesome. You may say, "well, tons of other movies with monsters aliens and vampires say the same thing", but you can say the same for The Matrix. Dozens of movies before The Matrix have criticized humanity in the same way The Matrix has, but The Matrix is special because it does it SO MUCH BETTER than other movies had. Resident Evil does the same in this area. Even though many movies in the past have monsters and vampires, Resident Evil and its series is the first movie (and movie series) which has as its basic premise the fact the thE ENTIRE FREAKIN' TOWN has turned into monsters. And this is how it is in real life in many ways. In previous movies, it was always where the number of monsters was less than or equal to the number of survivors. In this movie, 99% of the people in the setting are monsters. This is different from The Matrix, where 99% of the people are blind, not monsters who attack the the main characters. The rest are robots, and these do attack the main characters, but they are robots not people so this is actually less representative of real life in a way because it implies that negative things in life may stem from objects foreign to us (i.e. the robots), or may stem from ourselves (i.e. Neo in The Matrix is often told by the Oracle how much influence he himself has), but Resident Evil focuses on the fact that sometimes in life the greatest negativity comes from the people around you who seem to not only become blind like the people in The Matrix, but to have become cruel and heartless and soulless.