He ruined another franchise

Rating: Null/10 (11 September 2004)

There's only way to describe this movie- utterly awful. I found myself laughing through the whole thing since what was happening was completely ridiculous. I think they did every possible thing for this movie in the worst way, even the simple things.
First of all, the video games were great. They're classics, hense why Resident Evil was remade more than five years after its original release. I'm not an extremely creative person, but it wouldn't be difficult at all, even as an independent movie, to make an adaptation of the game. After all, isn't that what the point of making a Resident Evil movie is? If he wants to go on his own little suck spree with his awful ideas, why doesn't he leave Resident Evil out of it and make a completely different zombie movie?
Second of all, there are so many plot holes you're afraid to even wonder thinking you might get stuck with ridiculously abstract thinking (which is the only way to try to explain the things in this movie!). Jill Valentine, who was in the first two Resident Evil games and more, makes her first appearance with no background information. She walks into the police place in skimpy clothing and says, "Shoot them in the head." Everyone listens. As the writer has obviously taken the very minimum from the Resident Evil storyline, you can't be left to believe she survived at a mansion in the outskirts of Raccoon City. So she must have had an epiphany when she awoke that morning (please prevent yourself from thinking of any other reason, you will have literally wasted a precious few seconds of your life). Not to mention that Alice somehow knows EVERYTHING about Nemesis (God forbid there be any purposely open-ended questions), Alice makes no sense, dead people in cemeteries somehow manage to get infected while six feet underground, some guy at the end is shot but randomly gets infected WITHOUT being bit, Nemesis and Alice have a Mortal Kombat style (no joke, it beings with some guy yelling "FIGHT!" and ending with him saying "FINISH HIM!" But it ended with Alice performing a Friendship instead of a Fatality), and for some reason zombies completely ignore important characters when they're making "dramatic" speeches.
Lastly, the acting and all around film work is completely awful. You'd like to see a zombie bite someone, wouldn't you? But because they had two thousand camera angles and some guy with Parkinson's disease was doing the film editing (in case you don't catch the pun, people with Parkinsons shake uncontrollably). That might also explain why the zombies move all slow, which is cool and freaky, but for some reason they DJ the film and make it go super fast, normal, then slow? This is the way it is for every action scene, as if they're trying to rush the movie so you won't have to sit through more of it. Not like the hand-to-hand fighting scene would be cool if you could see what was happening anyway. The acting is just awful. I don't know about anyone else, but I'd be a little freaked/emotional if everyone in my city was running after me to eat me. Not these people though, they act like they're just as calm as they would be at a photo shoot. Or hell if you saw your best friend get shot or eaten in front of you, that's no reason to show emotion...is it?
See this movie if you want a good laugh at how awful it is, or a good cry at how good the video games are and how this writer just ruined your dreams. The movie makes a mockery of everything it can possibly touch, including the scene where someone "hacks" into Umbrella by typing into his Vaio- "open hack.exe". Not to mention they completely screwed up on doing so many things. People that aren't bit turn into zombies. Windows are broken while driving a Harley through it, and somehow pieced back together and re-broken when the lamest scene I've ever seen in a movie occurs just seconds later. Nuclear missiles can be shot from helicopters and guided through city streets...right? I'd rate this as a 2/10, only allowing for a 2 because I did have a good laugh by the end. If you enjoy dropping empty water bottles onto the ground over and over again, you'll enjoy this movie, but only slightly.