Expect decent action scenes and you'll be fine.

Rating: 7/10 (28 January 2011)

The Resident Evil movies are one of the greatest examples of a movies series that is consistently good, but always fails to achieve greatness. RE4 is no exception. The acting is worst than on the rest of the franchise, but the visuals are top-notch and the action is amazing.
Milla Jovovich is really disappointing in this, since she doesn't really have as much fighting scenes as i'd have liked, nothing comes even close to the awesome dog kick of the first movie. Spencer Locke had way too little to do here and Boris Kodjoe was a nice surprise.
The movie is pretty predictable, every scenario has everything you expect. The single survivor almost has an existential crisis (she should, but still). In the prison, there's The jerk who turns out to be a traitor, the girl who doesn't do much but ends up having some surprise quality that really helps (not really helps, but the swimmer had the right buildup) the mysterious guy who ends up saving everyone, and the newcomers who change the whole system in the prison.
But you can forget all that when the zombies show up and the shooting and fighting begins. Alice and Claire are as badass as usual, while Chris was a worthy addition and Luther was pretty meh. I have to say that while the fight choreography was decent, the big showdowns were really disappointing (The dogs, The Executioner, Alice vs. Wesker) And to finish, here's a heads up: If you think Snyder's films have way to much rampaging prepare for some really useless slow mos. It's really senseless since every scene in rampage mode fails to be badass and Executioner vs. Alice wasn't and was much better that way. Also, there were tons of fuel barrels in the prison, so why did no one blow them up when the zombies walked in