Alexander Witt could have tried harder.

Rating: 4/10 (24 August 2006)

Many mistakes were made translating it from game to film. Such as who's a bad guy and who a good guy? what can this monster do? and others, but I'll write about the film errors.
The movie lacks tension that the games have, due to lack of ammo, you never have the gun you need when you need it most, and a few cheesy one-liners. In the game you're by yourself, and surrounded by monsters and zombies, and quite often you make a run past everything just to avoid conflict. Witt (Director) doesn't seem to understand that Resident Evil game are titled "Survival Horror" for a reason, you have to survive on some basic supplies and fight or run from the horror. In the movie its, "See the monster, shoot the monster. Next!", type of action. Alice(Jovovich) and Carlos(Fehr) have almost endless firepower, and it takes away the stress that is felt in the game. It also makes a cheep shot with some naked stripper zombies just for a few extra buck from the guys. The film has this really bad habit of using bad film to make the zombies look like its running on the PSX console, but to me it makes it seem like he's hiding a bad makeup job, as if their wasn't enough makeup to go around. The end fight before Racoon city is blown up, is laughable to boring, and insulting to the RE franchise and (most importantly) it's fans.
In its defence however, I liked the mini-gun Nemises is now armed with, and how the Nemises was introduced. The musical BGM and soundtrack is written well to the action happening in the movie. Unfortunity that's all I can defend for it.