Not a true HORROR film, but still entertaining

Rating: Null/10 (20 March 2002)

Personally, Resident Evil caused me somewhat of a disappointment. Being that I am a fan of horror and consider myself to be a connoisseur in the genre, I went to the movie theatre with the idea that I was going to see real zombies; such as those in George Romero's trilogy or Lucio Fulci's Zombi 2, even like those in the classic B movie Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things. But it was nothing like that.
On the contrary, the zombies in Resident Evil looked stupid and not scary at all. What happened to the classic zombie moans and humming? The facial close-ups? The gore? The explicit zombie attacks? The loud bites and zombie appetite? And the list can go on just to compare what a classic zombie movie should be versus the new zombies such as the ones portrayed in Resident Evil where even some of the zombies faces were computer generated.

It seems like good horror films will not make a come back to the big screen. There have been many, such as Scream, Urban Legend, I Know what you did Last Summer, Disturbing Behavior, Jeepers Creepers and so many more recent films, but none are true to the genre. There will probably never be another Suspiria, Evil Dead, Inferno, Texas Chainsaw Massacre or Phenomena among others.
Now taking Resident Evil from a different point of view: it is an OK Hollywood movie, entertaining and very similar to the video game (T-virus, killer Dobermans, Train, Licker, Umbrella). Milla Jovovich beauty enlightens the screen and her performance is pretty good. Overall the film is watchable, not the greatest but still entertaining.