Game Fans Delight

Rating: 7/10 (30 September 2005)

The original was aimed at the fans of the game and the director and Mila only expected a cult audience. What they succeeded in doing was creating a film that not only appealed to the fans of the game but reached out to others. Resident evil 2 is no different although in areas is falls short of the original movie in other areas it surpasses it.
One of the areas it definitely pulls up short of its counterpart is the jump factor. The original was full of little jumpy moments where the director shocked the audience, and he used many of the same ideas the games had in them to scare the audience. In the sequel the scariest moment would be without a doubt in the church as Jill Velntine and her companions are trying to avoid being eaten. Apart from that however there is little in the movie to make you jump.
The main area the sequel improves on is the special affects. This is obviously due to the fact the original was made on a budget of about 10-20 million dollars and this one was made on a real Hollywood budget.
The score to this movie was excellent with the music fitting the feeling of the movie perfectly. Although again I would have to say I preferred the score for the original with Marylin Manson's incredibly creepy and cool theme song.
All in all however this movie is worthy sequel. Don't go along expecting to be moved to tears by the story. This movie dosn't aim to do that it aims to entertain, scare and make the audience think about the power of corperations in America today.