Great movie

Rating: 9/10 (29 September 2007)

I've been waiting for this movie to come out ever since I walked out of the theater after watching "Resident Evil: Apocalypse", and I must say I wasn't disappointed. Well, maybe a little, but only because Jill Valentine is missing from this installment...where did she go? This movie does a great job delivering what it promised...thrills, scares, zombies (though not enough for my tastes) and a kick-ass heroine who may have super-human abilities but is still human at heart. The storyline, I thought, was fine; although not as fleshed-out as it could have been. I would've liked to know how Claire and her caravan met Carlos and LJ or what happened to Jill and Angie. It would have been nice if they'd tied some more elements of the games into this.
** SPOILER! ** But the writers did a good job of reminding everyone that even though you can be tough and quick, you are not invincible...which they made clear when LJ turned zombie and Carlos sacrificed himself to help the others escape and to get Alice underground to face Dr. Isaacs (I still can't believe Carlos is gone!) Clearly, the ending indicates there will be a 4th movie, which will be interesting to see how they'll do it...looks like it'll be an original story, just like the 1st movie. The only thing I'm worried about is that it'll end up being stupid, with Alice and her hundreds of clones trekking to Japan to take out Wesker. And I'm really hoping it won't be. Overall, a great movie.