Not scary enough but okay if you are in the right mood

Rating: 5/10 (19 September 2008)

I wasn't expected too much from this film but I was expecting a bit more than I got. The one thing that all horror films need is to be scary and this sadly lacked any real scares.
The film is set in Raccoon City where the sinister Umbrella organisation has released hoards of Zombies infected with the T-virus, anybody being bitten by them catches the virus, dies within a few hours and becomes a zombie themselves. They also release Alice who has also been infected with the T-virus but for some reason she isn't turned into a zombie but instead gets super-human strength. The other main characters are two cops and a reporter who are among those trapped in the city. After meeting up with Alice the group gets a phone call from a scientist who promises to get them out of the city if they find his daughter and bring her out with them. Along the way they meet another cop who worked for Umbrella till the abandoned him in the city and a civilian who appears to be there for light relief. On top of the regular zombies we see dog-zombies and a creature known as Nemesis that seems to be part of the same experiment as Alice.
While the film isn't good it isn't totally with out merit, I thought that Sienna Guillory was pretty good as Valentine, one of the cops and I did chuckle when the when the comedy-civilian crashed his car because he was distracted by a couple of topless zombie-hookers. I wasn't too keen on the ending which just seemed like a set up for the next sequel.
As I've not played the game that the film is based on I can't say whether or not the film follows the same plot or if the films characters are good representations of those in the game. I wouldn't recommend buying this film but if it is on TV and you are bored it passes a couple of hours.