Quite possibly one of the worst trash

Rating: 1/10 (15 March 2002)

... to ever be exposed to celluloid.
SOME SPOILERS
Resident Evil follows the cliché and the stereotype right smack-in-your-face down to the letter. Excusing the fact that this is yet again another blatant Aliens hack, what we have here is one tough chick with a questionable past leading a bunch of commandos (except her reason was never explained clearly) into ground zero of monster-infested territory. All sound familiar?
Paul Anderson shows once again what he does best and that is try to rip off past successful horror-action flicks with high budget slick special effects and show absolute no regard to continuity or a plot that makes sense. Good God the amount of crap that was displayed on the screen. We have plenty of cannon-fodder here who wander off for no apparent reason (other then being plain stupid) to be chomped on by zombies that appear out of the blue (and disappear just as quickly) or diced up by slick special effect laser beams! This happens way too often by the way. We have also the, err, undead themselves that seem impervious to close range 9mm rounds, but yet some skinny supermodel actress knocks them out with martial arts? Speaking of undead, the story itself how they were created is pretty hilarious. It's not really the virus as some of veteran gamers of the series believe. It's really this evil machine that went HAL9000 on its or hers or whatever folks. Funny stuff!
To add to the camp factor, we also get to have a sex scene. Simply can't do a movie of this caliber without one. All in all, Resident Evil might seem good if you're into the mindless mayhem with bad acting and crayon written scripts like the godawful monster flicks from the Sci-Fi Channel. Otherwise, skip this crap and go for mindless mayhem with real style like Blade 2.
Score: 1 out of 10.