A hot babe and a gun...good times, good times. 6/10

Rating: 7/10 (15 March 2002)

Flaws and all, Resident Evil manages to be a pretty darn entertaining picture. This is one of the first FUN films we've seen all year -- it's heads and above trash like The Time Machine. As one might assume -- the film is full of problems. For an R rated picture that contains ZOMBIES, the film doesn't have nearly enough gore as it should. Speaking of zombies -- the zombies in this picture could use some work -- terrible make-up at times. A good amount of the action scenes are sloppy -- the director just kind of throws the camera into the carnage and the audience is suppose to make sense of it all. The film has a lot of problems like this, but it still manages to deliver on the goods. The film benefits from an amazingly sexy Milla Jovovich. She makes the film work much in the same way Angelia Jolie made Tomb Raider the guilty pleasure it was. The film also stands up pretty well when you compare it to the video games (which I myself am a fan of). Not a very good film, but if you are in the mood for some zombie killing but a sexpot, like I was -- you probably won't be disappointed.