Not horror, but damn good action!

Rating: 7/10 (10 April 2002)

I am not a great fan of the games, I know about them and have spent a few hours in front of them. Not that they are bad but I did lack the time.
The movie acctually manages to capture the feeling of the games, very well indeed. The hopeless situation and the dejectedness of the people trying to survive. The movie also has a game like look and feel to it in the beginning. Watch the first scenes with Milla in the mansion and tell me if you agree...
The game style diminishes when the action picks up in pace though. And it really do keep a nice pace trough the rest of the film.
I was afraid that the end would spoil the movie in some way but it acctually lifted the overall impression one notch!
One thing (the thing?) that I think could have been done better or even have been left out was the "Big Monster". It wasn't really state of the art and didn't really fit in. It didn't affect the overall feeling though and I can live with it.
The story is good, it follows the original story with the evil Umbrella company performing illegal experiments and the effects of them is what we see. Screenplay lacks some but this isn't a drama, it's action so it doesn't really shine trough. Even the effects aren't that spectacular but they don't need to be. Less is more. Finally the movie score, I loved it! Hard, fastpaced and matched the movie close to perfectly.
This is proof that computer games (console rather...) do make great movies. Just give the idea to the right person!
7/10