Paul Anderson is not very good....

Rating: 3/10 (9 January 2005)

This DOES CONTAIN SPOILERS to continue from my Summary line, Paul Anderson is not very good at anything he does besides creating a setting/environment that looks and feels good to the viewer. Other than that, This movie pretty much sucked. There are direct parallels between this and his other most recent action movie, Alien vs. Predator:
the token black guy with an anger problem that gets himself killed
a hot female that isn't wearing enough clothes for the situation (in this case, 2 of them)
a plot loosely pieced together based upon the predecessors (in this case, Res Evil: Nemesis the game, and the prior movie)
extremely cliché characters
the change of heart by the villain (in this case, Nemesis, who used to be Max in the first movie), who ends up helping out Mila & her crew after he gets beaten down by her.
and last but not least, an inconclusive ending meant to leave the viewer awaiting a sequel.
I guess I really would've liked the movie if it had a solid plot that explained a few things, a little background information that could get me more interested in the characters & character development, a decent fight to the death bout between Mila and the Nemesis (not one that was setup by some Umbrella geek, where the Nemesis ended up seemingly trying to out-jujitsu Mila's character, when he obviously easily could've punched a hole right through her face. but wait, what am I thinking? Mila can run down building walls, I forgot. All satire aside, half the action sequences were truly unbelievable), and a suspenseful escape from the city which gives a fairly conclusive ending...In other words, I would've liked the movie if it was good. But it's not.
3/10
Lots of action--some very unrealistic, some very good sequences--but no interesting plot or character development.