Resident Evil: Action with Dark Comedy

Rating: 7/10 (12 September 2004)

********notice - no major spoilers!******************************
Having played the remake of the First RE game as well as reading the first of the novels and playing Resident Evil: Zero, I have to say I was MUCH impressed with this flick.
The "Critics" complained that it bounced around too much, didn't give character development and just didn't have any meat to it...
Well, if the "Critics" would play the games, read the books and learn the back story, maybe they wouldn't have been so lost.
There where a good deal of spots where the entire theater was chuckling over small "dark humor" that gamers around the world could appreciate... little things like a guy running over a corpse and talking about going "GTA on him..."
Alice kicks much butt (I'm waiting for Capcom to put HER in a game... cause at this rate, you know they are going to have to) and this time they make up for the first movie not really having a hell of a lot to do with the Books / Games etc. Jill is just about where she is After RE1 somewhere around RE3... Having been set up for her attempt to uncover umbrella. Cameos by Chris, Wesker and a few other major names would have been nice here... though there is a definite presence of STARS (who get pretty much trashed by Nemisis...)
All in all, this is one of the few movies I've been to in a long while that I actually felt was worth paying to get into the theater. Can't wait to see the NEXT sequel ('cause ya know there's GOT to be one...)