Finally - a decent zombie flick for the millenium!!

Rating: Null/10 (27 March 2002)

Fortunate enough to be invited to an advance screening of the new "Resident Evil" movie, I went along with a niggling voice at the back of my mind reminding me of how cheap and nasty the "Tomb Raider" movie turned out to be...
However, I was pleasantly suprised when my favourite game of all time made it's screen debut - it LOOKS like a George Romero movie, it SOUNDS like one, it even SMELLS like one! At last, a decent zombie flick for the millenium!!!
The first 15 minutes or so chug along superbly, a pounding metal heartbeat in the background guides us through the cataclysmic events that mark the beginning of the end for the Umberella coporation (or IS it? Baaaahahaha! etc) Without giving too much away, this movie is the splatter-gore-death-undeed-dead-corpsey-doom-fan's ultimate movie, central characters being killed off left right an centre (yaaaaaay!!! Nobody ever does that any more!), convincing zombies, and the undead dobermans.....maaaaaaaaaaaaan....as a bonus, they don't include the awful music from the first Res Evil game (remember, when the dog comes flying thru the window in the corridor? That dodgy keyboard drumbeat thing kicks in, arrrghhhh).
90 minutes of pure bliss - snappy one-liners, some absurdly good acting for this kind of movie, and enough blood and sticky goosh to keep any die-hard fan happy.
For Wesker's sake, ignore the critics - GO SEE THIS FILM, we won't see one like it until...well, the sequel!
Until then, I'll be the one hiding in a quivering heap under the table :)
Cheers!