Very Exciting

Rating: 7/10 (8 November 2012)

The Umbrella Corporation is a multi-conglomerate which operates a secret underground laboratory beneath a metropolitan area called Raccoon City. Inside the lab, scientists were illegally producing a virus which reanimates dead human beings. Realizing that the T-virus was worth a great sum of money on the black market, a thief steals the virus. However, just before attempting to escape the facility with the virus and the antidote, he deliberately contaminates the lab. Unfortunately, he doesn't quite make it out before being knocked out by nerve gas. A crack team of commandos then enter the facility and capture three people: "Alice" (Milla Jovovich), "Matt Addison" (Eric Mabius) and "Spence Parks" (James Purefoy). Everyone else has been supposedly killed by the computer defense system known as "the Red Queen". Racing against time, the commandos enter the facility known as "the hive" to disable the Red Queen and find out what has happened. Anyway, rather than divulge anything that might spoil the movie for those who haven't seen it, I will stop right here. However, I would like to say that while the overall acting isn't that great, Milla Jovovich, and to a lesser extent Michelle Rodriguez (as the commando named "Rain Ocampo"), give awesome performances. Additionally, the action is fast-paced and the music complements it very well. All in all, I found this movie to be very exciting and it should appeal to those who like an action-packed thriller of this sort.