Do 3D effects sacrifice the story

Rating: 2/10 (21 September 2010)

I went to this movie with my girlfriend. I must say, putting up with the idiot teenagers behind me checking their vibrating phones seeing their lighted displays in the corner of my 3D glasses. I still wanted to see this film, I put the rhetoric behind me. The opening of the film was the narration of Alice, once again telling the fans of this series what we already know. It was without a doubt, boring hearing the story already known to us. But i think that the directors wanted to play the people that have never seen the film, only heard about it through gossip. The writers of this film, from what I see just wanted to make a 3D movie with the title called Resident Evil. The first three movies were really good. I know video game goers will knock me on this critique. But as a film buff and not a video game expert. I must say the directors and writers did an excellent job at making the first three films by making video game to movie history. They couldn't of done this without what George A. Romero did back in 1968. Because of technology, and video games, this genre has taken the next step.
But I feel the first 8 minutes of this film were great, however, after this, it's just a lost weak version of it's original self, made just to sell some more 3D televisions.
Ask yourself, if this movie you seen in 2D as you watched in 3D, is there a story here? Does this film feel like the rest of the series? Or is it just a popular pop phenomenon? Or just to go see a movie, and ask yourself is this just a film made to dazzle our senses with new technology. I must admit that this movie did do all of that. But I must ask again where is the story? That I can't answer. I think that Hollywood is taking us for a ride, so that the new generation will go to the movie theatre, to buy into a monster that is already dead. And that is all they want us to do. Spend money to fill in the years of lack luster entertainment. You see these days the film industry is dying, so now with new technology they have grasp the human race to go see the next new gimmick, just to see the next version of what movies are. Well, with this falsehood in mind, I will say this movie is a pathetic attempt to make money on the original franchise.
How sad is this?
Alice to me didn't feel like her own-self. With the plagiarist visual effects, and with the ending looking like Terminator verses the Matrix.
To me and even the goofy teenagers sitting behind me agreed upon this one thought, where was the story. I listened to them saying, "that sucked the other movies were way better." It's pretty sad, even though I'm 33 years old that the 15 year old kids behind me think the same thing.
And what was with the crazy zombie carrying the big, huge hammer/axe? Where did he come from? Why is he there? Is he just some lost relic of the S.T.A.R.S.program? I really don't know. All I have to say is where was the story line and why did I feel the "MEAT" or the middle part of the film drag on too long? I found that the beginning action sequences were good.The middle part did nothing for me except for a few scares. And then the already done MATRIX/TERMINATOR ending. How disappointing.
To sum it all up, I was disappointed from watching this film. Hollywood has obviously played a huge prank on us calling this Resident Evil. They paid too much attention to new 3D technology and the story suffered by trying to distract all of us through this 3D effect.
Stay far away from this movie, and go home and watch the original films to shake the bugs off, of this disgrace in the story of Resident Evil 4.
Also I must add, movies are hard to make. We fans are all critics on how things should be filmed. But these directors ,writers, and all the people that make films come together have been bought out by the newest technology, and they will keep playing this role until it dries up the money train. They have already done this in the past through the mass production of VHS, DVD, and Blueray Disc, which is the same form of DVD except "They" claim, it's clearer. Hey, kids and movie goers out there, a real movie is something that makes us inspired, not by commercialized effects,but by the story. Real directors take written stories and put that on a visual canvas to make us see what they see. But the films made today are just all about selling the next 3d television. And who do you think owns the rights to these companies? Yes, you guessed it the production companies themselves.
A film is, what it is, and nothing more. But when we put money before the true form of film, it suffers. It shouldn't matter what type of television we buy. The film you are watching should present itself as it is. We as a society have been brainwashed by the corporate empire to make us believe that 3D makes a better and more compelling story. But this is false there has to be a story before we use technology to enhance that aspect.