Sound and Fury Signifying Nothing *Micro-spoiler*

Rating: Null/10 (11 September 2004)

This one was very much anticipated and has way too many problems to feel we had a payoff for the wait. The movie tries so hard to throw everything into it, it does at times seem to provide some surprising moments, but on the whole, leaves much to be desired in terms of plot. The overall choppiness and rapid cut of the action sequences often makes it very difficult to tell what is happening. All you get is a flash of motion and a crunch or two. And the overkill factor was just too much in evidence throughout, but without any meaning to most of it.
The logical flaws in the movie were myriad and, sadly, very, very serious. For instance, the idea that a 20 foot tall wall completely encircling a city to contain a virus and completely isolating everyone inside could be even built, much less done within 13 hours is pretty much impossible. And Raccoon City seems to be a fairly large city. And that's just for starters.
On the plus side, there are so many killings and bashings, that many people may be distracted from adding up all of the ideas and timing problems that make no sense. Indeed, trying to make out who hit who with what weapon or which body part might be sufficiently distracting to have most people forget the attempt to follow the story at all, which would actually reduce the potential for migraine.
For those of us with brains that are not exposed and who have somewhat shorter and less deadly tongues than those seen in this movie, we might say one thing is for sure "THIS MOVIE HAS THE T-VIRUS THROUGHOUT & T IS FOR TORTUROUS"