Average

Rating: 5/10 (2 May 2006)

Love the video game series, played them all, now time for the movie. Like Resident Evil and Doom - the movie does a decent job of keeping elements from the game, certainly better than Doom manages, anyhow!! Some ropey acting and wardrobe from the ye oldy cult people - please remind me why we needed to see them - felt like a bad episode of Startrek Next Generation - this ruined the film for me - direction was also very average and for me the films only redeeming factors were the "coming of the Dark transformation" and SH style ending!! If this were made by the Japanese (like the Ring etc) and tweaked quite a bit, this could have been a belter of a movie, i never really had the feeling of dread you get from the games!! Unfortunately this is a Hollywood production (sigh) and like so many other video game adaptations is full of cheese, cheddar and the inability to create real class - when the original story is very weird but highly credible!! Oops i didn't mention the CG - WHAT was going on with the first "lurker" monster - 1. Why did they look absolutely awful and 2. Why were they glowing??? Also:- Folks who haven't played the games will have no idea why parts of the film are in there!! Very disappointed - but not surprised - yawn!!