Resident Evil in name only

Rating: 1/10 (31 December 2010)

Needless to say, one of the worst movies I've seen (so far). When you see that the director is also the one who wrote the script you know it's gonna be really bad. The biggest disappointment is the plot (or the lack of it). Wikipedia calls it "film adaptation based loosely on Capcom's survival horror video game series Resident Evil". Loosely translated it means "don't worry if you didn't play any of the games, you won't know the difference. Sucker." Here are some of the most glaring plot holes: Wesker injected Alice with some drug that supposedly took away all of her powers, yet she survived the plane crash a few seconds later without a scratch and, after a few months, jumped off a building and killed zombies like nothing ever happened. Guess the drug works pretty slow... The Executioner Majini (big guy with equally big axe), originally from Africa, suddenly appears at the prison in Los Angeles? C'mon, that is just retarded. There's also zombies digging thorough the floor - were they bitten by radioactive gophers? The viral outbreak and a few characters is all this train wreck has in common with the name Resident Evil. A bunch of survivors huddled together in a building besieged by zombies? I'd take "Dawn of the Dead" any day of the week over this travesty. Most acting was mediocre at best. Shawn Roberts tried and failed, simply by not being old enough, I expect better performance in the future. On a side note: They probably blew most of the CGI budget on Wesker's glowing eyes. What kind of a douche wears sunglasses inside? I guess that makes Wentworth Miller best actor. Well, he had the home turf advantage, playing Michael Scofield in Prison Break :-) We now come to the worst element ( element = :-), you'll get it), by which I mean Milla Jovovich. Would she have gotten the role if she wasn't the director's main squeeze? I doubt it very much. But then again, Paul W.S. Anderson must have seen her without any make-up and obviously thinks she's still presentable. That guy is a real trooper. The best thing she can do is butt out and leave acting to more talented and younger women. She and some other "actresses" out there should get it once and for all time straight: no one wants to see a woman over thirty (a.k.a. soccer mom) wearing anything skin tight like spandex or leather!!!