Creates and follows a template at the same time

Rating: 7/10 (1 January 2011)

Although it doesn't exactly blaze a trail of originality, Resident Evil was one of the first films to create a movie feature from a video game.
Which is one of the few things you need to know about it. Let me list everything:
1. It is based on a video game.
2. It is the first in an ongoing movie franchise.
3. It (and its sequels) stars Milla Jovovich.
4. It is about a virus getting loose in a subterranean research establishment which turns people into, yes, you got it, flesh easting zombies.
5. There is lots of weapons being fired at zombies and running away.
6. There is a fair amount of fairly graphic violence.
7. Blahdy blahdy blah. It is moderately entertaining within its genre, but utterly generic.