Killed by the third dimension

Rating: 4/10 (17 September 2010)

The Resident Evil films have been on a long slide downhill since the stylish first movie. But that is expected.
What spoiled the film for me was the awful 3D. I am not a 3d fan to begin with but this was just terrible.
While mega action is going on you are distracted by shell cases and masonry flying at you, when you glance back to screen the zombies are all dead and Mila is moving on. The shots from the air looked like someone holding an airfix plane in front of a poster. The gratuitous shots of double pistols pointing down the screen were cartoonish and over used. Token pieces of furniture were projected 3d so it looked like the actors were in a drama studio with a backdrop and a couple of props stage front.
About a third of the film is shot using compound camera trickery. Anytime someone as much as asks to pass the mustard everything slows down to bullet time and a random object looms out the screen at you.
The plot, acting etc. are all negligible, the film is at least a thousand times cheesier than the first; but what do you expect? I look forward to getting my hands on the 2d DVD.