If I was alone I would have WALKED OUT

Rating: Null/10 (15 September 2004)

Now I've played the games since back on PS1, and I enjoyed the first RE movie; so to all you RE fans, I "get it" alright, but this was freakin' inexcusable. Casual fans of the first RE or of anything even resembling a structured movie beware. Seriously, almost the third movie I've walked out of, the other two being "Last Action Hero" and "Speed 2"
Where to start? Flimsy excuse of a plot which really gives no background on ANY of the characters, except save Alice perhaps; but most of that I knew because the "plot" was pretty much the basis of the Resident Evil 2 video game. The writers seem to just make up anything they want next without any explanation (shining example: At one point the gang is helpless, hands binded behind the back, then moments later, with no explanation, everyone is holding pocket knives behind their back cutting their own bonds.) Choppy-edited fighting scenes try to disguise the lack of any actual stunt work. Throw in Mike Epps as the token "black guy who says funny things". Gee didn't see that coming. As a matter of fact, I think I've seen everything in this and every other half-assed movied that's ripped off "The Matrix" since 1999. Oh yeah, and Alice can also jump 20 feet high and run tethered sideways down skyscrapers at 50 mph.
Honestly, I thought the same guy that must do the Mountain Dew commercials wrote and directed this. Maybe a seventh-grader put together the storyboard for him. Whereas Alien Vs. Predator was a straight-forward, accessible journey into video game movies, RE:A should be placed right up top with Fred Savage's "The Wizard" or "Super Mario Bros." in the same category: the "THROW TOGETHER ANYTHING TO MAKE A QUICK BUCK OFF A Video game" category. Don't waste your time or money.