A good movie for what it is

Rating: 8/10 (5 August 2005)

When I first heard they were making a movie of the well known resident evil video game series I wasn't exactly jumping for joy to see it, especially after I had seen mortal combat annihilation, now in hindsight it was a good choice for a movie. After the events of the first resident evil movie the t-virus has spread throughout the city having infected about half of the population of raccoon city and forcing the survivors to flee in terror to the city gates only to find that the umbrella corporation has already locked down the area in preparation for sanitation. (AKA there about to nuke the living f*** out of the city to keep the virus from spreading) now Alice, a reporter a black stereotype, two stars police officers, and some Russian mercenaries must race against time and zombies to save the daughter of an umbrella scientist while avoiding an even worse threat if they are to escape alive.
Quite frankly this isn't anything original but this movie doesn't succeed because of originality it succeeds because it takes the elements that have been used millions of times before in zombie movies but uses them in a way that is both interesting and suspenseful, with just the right blend of action suspense and comedy to appeal to fans of the original video game series while still reaching a larger audience. The only things holding the movie down from going from good to great are, its lack of originality in plot, a script that kept the actors from going beyond there stereotypes, and the fact that despite everything that went on in the movie none of our questions are answered we still don't know umbrella's goals we still don't know Alice,s relation to the umbrella corporation and we still don't know what umbrella intended to use Alice for. Overall the movie is in the end better than I thought it would be, but don't go there hoping for any groundbreaking effects or storyline. While not a great movie it's worth watching.