A complete and utter joke!!!!

Rating: 2/10 (20 December 2007)

OK let me first start by saying that I only watched the first half of this movie and what I saw turned me off enough that I really didn't care one bit how it was all going to pan out.
What? How you can you slate it if you haven't even seen it all the way through I hear you ask? Well quite easily actually since what I saw was the most ineptly handled mess I've had the displeasure of subjecting myself to for quite some time and I doubt very much that anything could have redeemed it, a sentiment echoed by a lot of the people who've commented on this movie (feel free to jump in and correct me anytime) from what I've seen.
So what's wrong with it then? Well for a start the acting is beyond poxy, there are very few decent actors here and even they are wasted due to really bad cheesefest and cliché style dialogue. Most of the characters are too stupid to live, I mean if you open a door and get bombarded by millions of flies who were chowing down on a hanging rotting corpse you close the freaking door you don't stand there for 5 minutes trying to swat a billion flies. You also don't sleep in the open when there's zombies swarming everywhere either.
The scene with all the birds was embarrassingly laughable. I mean here's a thousand infected crows swarming everywhere yet despite people being outside and obviously in the firing line the birds remain in their crappy CGI swarm high up in the sky until the script calls for someone to cop it in which case a few suddenly appear on cue and attack someone while completely ignoring everyone else including people trying to help the victim, it's pathetic.
The direction is really bad and the action is handled so awkwardly that boring and disjointed doesn't even begin to sum it up.
I enjoyed the first Resident Evil for the guilty pleasure it was despite the fact that it really short changed us on the monster front. The second one as well although not as good as the first due to it's descent into C movie cliché was OK for what it was but this one is just totally pointless and could have been one of a million other generic zombie movies if it weren't for the R.E. branding. And unless I missed some huge money shot at the end, the FX were pretty naff as well although some of the Zombie make-up was good.
I have to say as well that 90% of what I saw had me thinking that I was watching a fan-made remake of Day of the Dead since half the plot elements seem to have been lifted from that (far superior) movie including an underground complex in the middle of the desert where the science team are at odds with the suits (DotD it was the military) while trying to domesticate zombies since they've apparently given up on a cure. The excruciatingly painful scene where they present a supposedly domesticated zombie with relics from his life (cellphone, childs toy etc) featured some guy as a zombie that didn't seem to know what one actually was. Even if he'd watched Sean of the Dead he would have got some idea how to portray one. The scene really left me pining for "Bubb", the trained zombie of DotD.
Unless this film pulled some ballbustingly amazing sh*t out of the bag in it's final act then I thank the Lord that I had the good grace to see what was coming and not waste another minute on this poorly conceived piece of tripe.....
Once again it's "Thank You Drive Through!"