Evil on TV

Rating: 6/10 (31 July 2014)

At the beginning of the 21st century, the Umbrella Corporation had become the largest commercial entity in the United States. Nine out of every ten homes contain its products. Its political and financial influence is felt everywhere. In public, it is the world's leading supplier of computer technology, medical products, and health care. Unknown, even to its own employees, its massive profits are generated by military technology, genetic experimentation, and viral weaponry.
...It seems so cool, doesn't it? And yeah, I was very intrigued by the beginning, those awesome-looking turquoise vials of some zombie virus. Then a homicidal computer, similar to GlaDOS from Portal or CAS from the Tower (1993), begins torturing and killing every scientist in the lab, locking the place down (I'm nostalgic for the 1985 film Warning Sign). It was so amazing...
But then the character Alice is introduced, and she wrecked the film. They were less concerned with making a good plot and more with actress Milla Jojovich's inhuman action kicks and punches. The scene where she leaps along the wall and karate kicks a mutant lab dog's head in, what was that!? A very unrealistic at best film, really only worth watching once, unless you're one of those gaming nerds who can't get enough of Resident Evil.
I did buy the movie novel, it was actually much better than the film itself.