Fast and smart as a zombie

Rating: 3/10 (10 February 2005)

Given that game-to-movie transfers are inherently poor, Paul WS Anderson's 2002 big screen adaptation of zombie survival horror Resident Evil was no worse than most, offering a scantily clad Milla Jovovich and sharp production design in place of the game's claustrophobic scares.
Anderson wrote (or, rather, regurgitated) this by-the-numbers sequel for Alexander Witt to direct and it's a pretty unimpressive effort.
Picking up from the original's close, Alice (Jovovich) joins the remains of a combat squad to fight clear of a city swarming with the resurrected dead and facing the lumbering zombie behemoth born of the Nemesis Project.
There's action aplenty but the living dead are largely in the background and when it's not ripping off better movies it's a plodding slog.