This Movie is just Evil, Not in a Good way!!

Rating: 3/10 (15 March 2002)

The makers of the games should be weeping on the keyboards right now, because one of the best video games in history has been turned into another cursed video game film (see also Double Dragon, and Mario Brothers). Paul Anderson has taken a perfect shot at making a great film and ruined it with poor makeup and even poorer plot. Number 1, i feel bad for George Romero (originaly slated for this film) for being dropped from this project, because he would have done a great job, because in the end Resident Evil is at its core a game about ZOMBIES, not super-computers. Who knows zombies better than him??? Well after seeing this movie this wednesday at a sneek preview I can firmly say not Paul Anderson.
Ideas from the game were kept, but they were re-worked into something perverted from the game, its as if the movie isnt about the game, but more about making people jump and trying to get a hip teen crowd. Of which it is missing a key element to that thing which it trys to be...gore. There is hardly any blood at all in a movie in which zombies are supposed to be eating the people. Black Hawk Down had 4 times the gore this "horror" film did. Even the game involves much more blood. Dont get me wrong there is plenty of violence, and lots of 'splosions and guns, but there is no saving grace. The most disappointing thing is the makeup and effects in the film. The zombies look just like normal people with a bad limp, barely any had any facial or body appliances to create effect of decay. Some of the computer effects were laughable, and the main creature reminded me of the computer alien from Alien 3 in 1993 (not a good thing)! The acting is about as bad as the first game so thats the only thing close to staying true to the game. Michelle Rodriguez contunies to be type cast as the snarling, tough female which she seems to excell with. Even Milla Jovovich wastes her time trying to attempt to act through this one. The rest of the cast is just kind of there, lucky them. In conclusion, ha i know ive rambled enough, if you are looking for a true survival horror film then rent something like John Carpenter's The Thing, but if you want to be throw into a world were the only survival horror youll have is to try and not walk out of the theater go see Resident Evil. My only question is why did the drop George Romero...so sad, lets tell the man who made the films the games are based off of he cant direct the movie based on the games...good job Hollywood, Good Job.