Hive Zombies

Rating: Null/10 (3 September 2012)

Resident Evil (2002)
* 1/2 (out of 4)
A secret military unit enters a secure location known as "The Hive," which was hit with a bio-hazard material, which has caused those inside the building to become zombies. I've never played the video game that this is based on but I'm really not sure you need to in order to understand what's going on in the film. I can see why some people might enjoy this but to me it was a pretty big bore from start to finish. I think it's easy to say that director Paul W.S. Anderson has no problems when it comes to style and action but I think RESIDENT EVIL is the perfect case for the "all style of no substance" complaint. The first forty-minutes of this movie had me looking at my watch every few minutes because it was dragging so slowly. I'm guessing the director wanted to build up some suspense leading up to what's going on in the building but even someone such as myself knew what to expect so why they just kept delaying what was coming made little sense to me. Once the zombie action does start things pick up a little bit but after a few attack scenes you soon realize that you've seen this way too many times before and this here really isn't adding anything new to the mix. Well, I guess the zombie dogs were something new. I thought Milla Jovovich was good in her part but the rest of the cast members were fair at best. The gore scenes really aren't anything new and I found some of the CGI to be pretty bland as well.