Great transfer from game to film.

Rating: 9/10 (19 March 2002)

It's been quite a while since I first heard of the Resident Evil movie. Back when George Romero was writing a script, and Samatha Mathis from Broken Arrow was going to play Jill Valentine with Bruce Payne as Wesker, I was excited. Then things seemed to fall apart and the project was in my mind trashed.
Slowly things came back together. A new writer, director, cast, and so on help to bring my confidence back. Even though the cast seemed to lack a little bit, and the characters were not the same, I was still excited to see the movie when it finally came out this past Friday.
Although I understand this could not be considered a great movie, I was very much satisfied with the transfer to film of one of the greatest video games ever made. I was disappointed with the changed characters, but the story was very much there.
And the special effects and gore were excellent. I was especially impressed with the dogs in how closely they resembled what you see in the game.
Needless to say I was happy with the results, and look forward to the sequel. If it's anything like the video game series, it only gets better.
9/10