Pretty Good

Rating: 6/10 (20 September 2005)

This movie is not that bad. I saw the first one but it didn't really live up to it's expectations. This one is much better than the first. Of course not everyone will agree because it's hard to please both movie goers and video gamers. I like the fact that most of the movie had some type of reference to the original games (expectation on the first resident evil video game). There are some differences between the game and the movie but overall it was still enjoyable. Millia Jovovich was alright, although i don't like that they made a non character of the game as the main "bad ass" good guy er girl. Jill is a major character that should have been the main focus. Olivera was alright, he was like a reference to chris but he wasn't great, he was just well... there, at least he was in resident evil 3. Jill Valentine was the best actress in the movie, (one word cleavage). Not only did Sienna look good (damn she was hot, never heard of her till now), but she played Jill Valentine to a T. I even read that she studied jill from resident evil 3, she even moved like her. The second person or i guess "creature" that was awesome was Nemesis. Nemesis reminded me of Terminator in a way, just plain bad ass. Some of the bad elements though was that the movie didn't flow perfectly, some things were just plain weird and there was some plot holes. I think the only thing i didn't like to much is they just threw the people inside the movie without explaining their origins or overall depth. Like Jill, she just runs in the police stations shoots zombies and thats pretty much it. I thought at the grave she was going to say " i've encountered umbrella, at a mansion on the outskirts of this city". But of course that didn't happen. The only character that really had depth was Alice. Another thing, why did Dr. Ashford bite the main bad guy? He wasn't even a zombie, he just got shot!? Overall though an enjoyable movie in some respects, other respects it was OK. Good rental but don't know about a buy.