Oh it's not bad, it's worse than that

Rating: Null/10 (3 October 2004)

Normally, I don't post my thoughts on movies that I found to be utter trash. But with this one, I couldn't help. I guess you could say I'm on a crusade to keep people away from this movie, fearing it will cause incredible damage to our already Hollywood-ized society. In all honesty, I went into this movie with little hope. The first Resident Evil was not good by any means. But it did have some, and I mean very few, good sequences here and there. I was hoping this, the second film in the franchise, might be a tad better. Boy was I wrong.
This is easily one of the worst sequels to have come out of mainstream Hollywood in quite some time. Sounds harsh huh? Well, it's something you have to see to believe. There is honestly nothing redeeming about this movie. The acting is dreadful. They all sound like they are auditioning for a bad daytime soap opera. It's flat and forced. The direction is uninspired. No, it's not even mediocre. Anderson's direction in the first was at least decent in some areas. Now however, his companion Alexander Witt takes the reigns and the results couldn't be worse. I found myself actually wishing Anderson had directed this. That's not a good thing either.
Of course, Anderson still wrote the movie. It shows. This man shouldn't be allowed to touch a screenplay, ever. The dialogue is horrible. The characters have nothing to them. The plot, well, it doesn't have one. There's no build up to anything. There's not one character we as an audience can care about. I found myself hoping everyone in the movie would die so it could end. Even the action is terribly written and shot. It's almost so cliché that it spoofs itself. It's overblown, unexciting, been there done that, peppered with metal music to "highten" the action.
To get this out of the way also. I don't mind mindless action movies, but when the action isn't even worth watching what's the point?
This of course brings me to another point being a horror fan. This movie is not scary, one bit. It's a bunch of "boo" scares that occur every five seconds. It gets real old, real quick. Just like the rest of this absolutely awful film. Stay away at all costs unless you like punishment and a movie that lowers your intelligent. 1/10.