a hip trendy, modern version of night of the living dead (but if that is good thing?)

Rating: Null/10 (4 November 2002)

Unfortunately I saw a bad quality version of this movie. The only thing I really found compelling was the beginnen. large desolate -clinical views on the house with milla waking up memoryless.
These few scenes brought back images from the game, eery music beautiful scenery and suspense all over the place, what would be behind the next door, or the next? a monster? a zombie? nothing?
Unfortunately, a swat-like team comes in, a computer mainframe is there (why??? I don't know it's as if it is put in without exploring the full potential for a screenplay -and believe me that computer mainframe had potential, the way it has been used ... it could have been left out)
The swat team could have given some tension as in "the thing" or as in "NothLD" But they are finished of even before they can fire of a round
The other missed opportunity is the dead. It becomes an "aliens"-meet-"notld" feast therefore killing all suspence and not just the living dead. I mean every dead person or animal is thrown at you (and the survivors)at the same time and -the makeup effects... where's Tom Savini when you need him, even the blue/grey painted ones from day of the dead were scarier,please what did they try to do, ger a PG rating? And the final monster? When you see it attack -was it milla's movie-husband?- it is suppose to sherd him to pieces .. you know .. some intestins here, a leg there... maybe the head a few feet from what should have been the rest of the body... but nooo ... just some ketchup around the waist ... and then the monster itself... shot as in stop-motion but really fuzzy as if the lenzes were out of focus...even king kong (1933) is more convincing than that!
of course the scene where milla kicks that doberman from hell is brilliant and reminiscent to the matrix, nicely shot, +1 credit for milla ...I want to see her do that n... anyways :-P well milla is just as beautiful as ever...
Of course I am going to have to view it on DVD or in the cinema ( I am not sure wheter it is to be released on DVD or in cinema in holland. Since the version I was was of bad quality, in good quality the film may have a better (greater?) impact on me and might even change my views on it, when it does, I'll post another comment to rectify this one.