Amazon.co.uk Review
Given that Resident Evil is a Paul Anderson movie based on a computer game which was itself highly derivative (especially of George A Romero and James Cameron films), it's probably unfair to complain that it hasn't got an original idea or moment in its entire running time. In the early 1980s, Italian schlock films such as Zombie Flesh Eaters and Zombie Creeping Flesh tried to cram in as many moments restaged from American originals as possible, strung together by silly characters wandering between monster attacks. This is a much-improved, edited, photographed and directed version of the same gambit.
As amnesiac Milla Jovovich remembers amazing kung fu skills and anti-globalist Eric Mabius mutters about evil corporations, a gang of clichéd soldiers with nary a distinguishing feature between them (except for Michelle Rodriguez as a secondary tough chick) are trapped in an underground scientific compound at the mercy of a tyrannical computer--which manifests as a smug little-girl-o-gram--fending off flesh-eating zombies (though gore fans will be disappointed by the film's need to stay within the limits of the 15 certificate) and CGI mutants, not to mention the ever-popular zombie dogs. It's tolerably action-packed, but zips past its borrowings (Aliens, Cube, Deep Blue Sea) without adding anything that future schlock pictures will want to imitate.
On the DVD: Resident Evil on disc has the expected trailers, both teaser and theatrical; a half-hour making-of; zombie make-up tests; featurettes on music (with Marilyn Manson), production design and costume. A lively commentary track features Anderson, Jovovich, Rodriguez and producer/zombie Jeremy Bolt--Jovovich upbraids Anderson for talking about different gradings of film stock over her nude scene and everyone else talks about how much she hurt them by punching them out during action sequences. Anderson mentions an alternate commentary track with visual effects designer Richard Yuricich, but it isn't included. --Kim Newman
Customer Reviews:
milla lover.......2008-02-20
This film has it's entertaining bits, like the lazer corridor and the licker scenes. However, what sells the movie is its star the lovely Milla Jovovich, she has mesmarising screen prescence and respectable acting talent and she is a superhot superbabe. Michelle Rodriguez was good too, but played the tough girl too much. Remeniscent of Janette Goldstien's potrayal of Valasquez in Aliens.
Overall Paul Anderson's film was a good but imperfect action horror.
Curiously fascinating...........2008-01-16
occasionally revolting twist on the big bad corporation controlling everything vibe which seems peculiarly well suited to the modern era. 28 Days Later was better, but this isn't as bad as it might have been. Based on video game of the same name it should by rights be dreadful, but somehow it has a heart, you care about the characters. This is quite a brutal movie, so if you are squeamish this is definitely not for you; if however, you enjoy the "now get out of that" school of chase movie, this is fast moving and sometimes genuinely shocking.
Well I like it!.......2007-11-04
Gotta own up- don't like computer games and have never played this one, so I can't enter into the debate on whether the games translates well onto the big screen. However, as a horror film, I think it's a pretty decent attempt.
To sum up: Umbrella corporation are conducting some dodgy experiments. Soon all those who come into contact with the T virus are "undead" and yearn for human flesh. Only Alice can stop them- or can she?
It's no oscar winner. It's not the scariest film you will ever see, but it is good. Worth a watch!
Loved it!!.......2007-10-26
What can I say about this film?! I was so excited when I heard this was coming out. I have never played the game but I love watching others play it. I thought this was a really good film. Lots of action, and I loved how at first I thought it was just a one off but then they left it open for a second movie! I would highly recommend this film.
resident evil.......2007-10-01
visuals:9
story:10
fun to watch:10
overall:10
this mind chilling film is how it all started off
Amazon.co.uk Review
Given that Resident Evil is a Paul Anderson movie based on a computer game which was itself highly derivative (especially of George A Romero and James Cameron films), it's probably unfair to complain that it hasn't got an original idea or moment in its entire running time. In the early 1980s, Italian schlock films such as Zombie Flesh Eaters and Zombie Creeping Flesh tried to cram in as many moments restaged from American originals as possible, strung together by silly characters wandering between monster attacks. This is a much-improved, edited, photographed and directed version of the same gambit.
As amnesiac Milla Jovovich remembers amazing kung fu skills and anti-globalist Eric Mabius mutters about evil corporations, a gang of clichéd soldiers with nary a distinguishing feature between them (except for Michelle Rodriguez as a secondary tough chick) are trapped in an underground scientific compound at the mercy of a tyrannical computer--which manifests as a smug little-girl-o-gram--fending off flesh-eating zombies (though gore fans will be disappointed by the film's need to stay within the limits of the 15 certificate) and CGI mutants, not to mention the ever-popular zombie dogs. It's tolerably action-packed, but zips past its borrowings (Aliens, Cube, Deep Blue Sea) without adding anything that future schlock pictures will want to imitate.
On the DVD: Resident Evil on disc has the expected trailers, both teaser and theatrical; a half-hour making-of; zombie make-up tests; featurettes on music (with Marilyn Manson), production design and costume. A lively commentary track features Anderson, Jovovich, Rodriguez and producer/zombie Jeremy Bolt--Jovovich upbraids Anderson for talking about different gradings of film stock over her nude scene and everyone else talks about how much she hurt them by punching them out during action sequences. Anderson mentions an alternate commentary track with visual effects designer Richard Yuricich, but it isn't included. --Kim Newman
Amazon.co.uk Review
Given that Resident Evil is a Paul Anderson movie based on a computer game which was itself highly derivative (especially of George A Romero and James Cameron films), it's probably unfair to complain that it hasn't got an original idea or moment in its entire running time. In the early 1980s, Italian schlock films such as Zombie Flesh Eaters and Zombie Creeping Flesh tried to cram in as many moments restaged from American originals as possible, strung together by silly characters wandering between monster attacks. This is a much-improved, edited, photographed and directed version of the same gambit.
As amnesiac Milla Jovovich remembers amazing kung fu skills and anti-globalist Eric Mabius mutters about evil corporations, a gang of clichéd soldiers with nary a distinguishing feature between them (except for Michelle Rodriguez as a secondary tough chick) are trapped in an underground scientific compound at the mercy of a tyrannical computer--which manifests as a smug little-girl-o-gram--fending off flesh-eating zombies (though gore fans will be disappointed by the film's need to stay within the limits of the 15 certificate) and CGI mutants, not to mention the ever-popular zombie dogs. It's tolerably action-packed, but zips past its borrowings (Aliens, Cube, Deep Blue Sea) without adding anything that future schlock pictures will want to imitate.
On the DVD: Resident Evil on disc has the expected trailers, both teaser and theatrical; a half-hour making-of; zombie make-up tests; featurettes on music (with Marilyn Manson), production design and costume. A lively commentary track features Anderson, Jovovich, Rodriguez and producer/zombie Jeremy Bolt--Jovovich upbraids Anderson for talking about different gradings of film stock over her nude scene and everyone else talks about how much she hurt them by punching them out during action sequences. Anderson mentions an alternate commentary track with visual effects designer Richard Yuricich, but it isn't included. --Kim Newman
Customer Reviews:
milla lover.......2008-02-20
This film has it's entertaining bits, like the lazer corridor and the licker scenes. However, what sells the movie is its star the lovely Milla Jovovich, she has mesmarising screen prescence and respectable acting talent and she is a superhot superbabe. Michelle Rodriguez was good too, but played the tough girl too much. Remeniscent of Janette Goldstien's potrayal of Valasquez in Aliens.
Overall Paul Anderson's film was a good but imperfect action horror.
Curiously fascinating...........2008-01-16
occasionally revolting twist on the big bad corporation controlling everything vibe which seems peculiarly well suited to the modern era. 28 Days Later was better, but this isn't as bad as it might have been. Based on video game of the same name it should by rights be dreadful, but somehow it has a heart, you care about the characters. This is quite a brutal movie, so if you are squeamish this is definitely not for you; if however, you enjoy the "now get out of that" school of chase movie, this is fast moving and sometimes genuinely shocking.
Well I like it!.......2007-11-04
Gotta own up- don't like computer games and have never played this one, so I can't enter into the debate on whether the games translates well onto the big screen. However, as a horror film, I think it's a pretty decent attempt.
To sum up: Umbrella corporation are conducting some dodgy experiments. Soon all those who come into contact with the T virus are "undead" and yearn for human flesh. Only Alice can stop them- or can she?
It's no oscar winner. It's not the scariest film you will ever see, but it is good. Worth a watch!
Loved it!!.......2007-10-26
What can I say about this film?! I was so excited when I heard this was coming out. I have never played the game but I love watching others play it. I thought this was a really good film. Lots of action, and I loved how at first I thought it was just a one off but then they left it open for a second movie! I would highly recommend this film.
resident evil.......2007-10-01
visuals:9
story:10
fun to watch:10
overall:10
this mind chilling film is how it all started off
Amazon.co.uk Review
Given that Resident Evil is a Paul Anderson movie based on a computer game which was itself highly derivative (especially of George A Romero and James Cameron films), it's probably unfair to complain that it hasn't got an original idea or moment in its entire running time. In the early 1980s, Italian schlock films such as Zombie Flesh Eaters and Zombie Creeping Flesh tried to cram in as many moments restaged from American originals as possible, strung together by silly characters wandering between monster attacks. This is a much-improved, edited, photographed and directed version of the same gambit.
As amnesiac Milla Jovovich remembers amazing kung fu skills and anti-globalist Eric Mabius mutters about evil corporations, a gang of clichéd soldiers without a distinguishing feature between them (except for Michelle Rodriguez as a secondary tough chick) are trapped in an underground scientific compound at the mercy of a tyrannical computer--which manifests as a smug little-girl-o-gram--fending off flesh-eating zombies (though gore fans will be disappointed by the film's need to stay within the limits of the 15 certificate) and CGI mutants, not to mention the ever-popular zombie dogs. It's tolerably action-packed, but zips past its borrowings (Aliens, Cube, Deep Blue Sea) without adding anything that future schlock pictures will want to imitate. -- Kim Newman
Amazon.co.uk Review
Given that Resident Evil is a Paul Anderson movie based on a computer game which was itself highly derivative (especially of George A Romero and James Cameron films), it's probably unfair to complain that it hasn't got an original idea or moment in its entire running time. In the early 1980s, Italian schlock films such as Zombie Flesh Eaters and Zombie Creeping Flesh tried to cram in as many moments restaged from American originals as possible, strung together by silly characters wandering between monster attacks. This is a much-improved, edited, photographed and directed version of the same gambit.
As amnesiac Milla Jovovich remembers amazing kung fu skills and anti-globalist Eric Mabius mutters about evil corporations, a gang of clichéd soldiers with nary a distinguishing feature between them (except for Michelle Rodriguez as a secondary tough chick) are trapped in an underground scientific compound at the mercy of a tyrannical computer--which manifests as a smug little-girl-o-gram--fending off flesh-eating zombies (though gore fans will be disappointed by the film's need to stay within the limits of the 15 certificate) and CGI mutants, not to mention the ever-popular zombie dogs. It's tolerably action-packed, but zips past its borrowings (Aliens, Cube, Deep Blue Sea) without adding anything that future schlock pictures will want to imitate.
On the DVD: Resident Evil on disc has the expected trailers, both teaser and theatrical; a half-hour making-of; zombie make-up tests; featurettes on music (with Marilyn Manson), production design and costume. A lively commentary track features Anderson, Jovovich, Rodriguez and producer/zombie Jeremy Bolt--Jovovich upbraids Anderson for talking about different gradings of film stock over her nude scene and everyone else talks about how much she hurt them by punching them out during action sequences. Anderson mentions an alternate commentary track with visual effects designer Richard Yuricich, but it isn't included. --Kim Newman
Customer Reviews:
milla lover.......2008-02-20
This film has it's entertaining bits, like the lazer corridor and the licker scenes. However, what sells the movie is its star the lovely Milla Jovovich, she has mesmarising screen prescence and respectable acting talent and she is a superhot superbabe. Michelle Rodriguez was good too, but played the tough girl too much. Remeniscent of Janette Goldstien's potrayal of Valasquez in Aliens.
Overall Paul Anderson's film was a good but imperfect action horror.
Curiously fascinating...........2008-01-16
occasionally revolting twist on the big bad corporation controlling everything vibe which seems peculiarly well suited to the modern era. 28 Days Later was better, but this isn't as bad as it might have been. Based on video game of the same name it should by rights be dreadful, but somehow it has a heart, you care about the characters. This is quite a brutal movie, so if you are squeamish this is definitely not for you; if however, you enjoy the "now get out of that" school of chase movie, this is fast moving and sometimes genuinely shocking.
Well I like it!.......2007-11-04
Gotta own up- don't like computer games and have never played this one, so I can't enter into the debate on whether the games translates well onto the big screen. However, as a horror film, I think it's a pretty decent attempt.
To sum up: Umbrella corporation are conducting some dodgy experiments. Soon all those who come into contact with the T virus are "undead" and yearn for human flesh. Only Alice can stop them- or can she?
It's no oscar winner. It's not the scariest film you will ever see, but it is good. Worth a watch!
Loved it!!.......2007-10-26
What can I say about this film?! I was so excited when I heard this was coming out. I have never played the game but I love watching others play it. I thought this was a really good film. Lots of action, and I loved how at first I thought it was just a one off but then they left it open for a second movie! I would highly recommend this film.
resident evil.......2007-10-01
visuals:9
story:10
fun to watch:10
overall:10
this mind chilling film is how it all started off
Amazon.co.uk Review
Given that Resident Evil is a Paul Anderson movie based on a computer game which was itself highly derivative (especially of George A Romero and James Cameron films), it's probably unfair to complain that it hasn't got an original idea or moment in its entire running time. In the early 1980s, Italian schlock films such as Zombie Flesh Eaters and Zombie Creeping Flesh tried to cram in as many moments restaged from American originals as possible, strung together by silly characters wandering between monster attacks. This is a much-improved, edited, photographed and directed version of the same gambit.
As amnesiac Milla Jovovich remembers amazing kung fu skills and anti-globalist Eric Mabius mutters about evil corporations, a gang of clichéd soldiers with nary a distinguishing feature between them (except for Michelle Rodriguez as a secondary tough chick) are trapped in an underground scientific compound at the mercy of a tyrannical computer--which manifests as a smug little-girl-o-gram--fending off flesh-eating zombies (though gore fans will be disappointed by the film's need to stay within the limits of the 15 certificate) and CGI mutants, not to mention the ever-popular zombie dogs. It's tolerably action-packed, but zips past its borrowings (Aliens, Cube, Deep Blue Sea) without adding anything that future schlock pictures will want to imitate.
On the DVD: Resident Evil on disc has the expected trailers, both teaser and theatrical; a half-hour making-of; zombie make-up tests; featurettes on music (with Marilyn Manson), production design and costume. A lively commentary track features Anderson, Jovovich, Rodriguez and producer/zombie Jeremy Bolt--Jovovich upbraids Anderson for talking about different gradings of film stock over her nude scene and everyone else talks about how much she hurt them by punching them out during action sequences. Anderson mentions an alternate commentary track with visual effects designer Richard Yuricich, but it isn't included. --Kim Newman
Customer Reviews:
milla lover.......2008-02-20
This film has it's entertaining bits, like the lazer corridor and the licker scenes. However, what sells the movie is its star the lovely Milla Jovovich, she has mesmarising screen prescence and respectable acting talent and she is a superhot superbabe. Michelle Rodriguez was good too, but played the tough girl too much. Remeniscent of Janette Goldstien's potrayal of Valasquez in Aliens.
Overall Paul Anderson's film was a good but imperfect action horror.
Curiously fascinating...........2008-01-16
occasionally revolting twist on the big bad corporation controlling everything vibe which seems peculiarly well suited to the modern era. 28 Days Later was better, but this isn't as bad as it might have been. Based on video game of the same name it should by rights be dreadful, but somehow it has a heart, you care about the characters. This is quite a brutal movie, so if you are squeamish this is definitely not for you; if however, you enjoy the "now get out of that" school of chase movie, this is fast moving and sometimes genuinely shocking.
Well I like it!.......2007-11-04
Gotta own up- don't like computer games and have never played this one, so I can't enter into the debate on whether the games translates well onto the big screen. However, as a horror film, I think it's a pretty decent attempt.
To sum up: Umbrella corporation are conducting some dodgy experiments. Soon all those who come into contact with the T virus are "undead" and yearn for human flesh. Only Alice can stop them- or can she?
It's no oscar winner. It's not the scariest film you will ever see, but it is good. Worth a watch!
Loved it!!.......2007-10-26
What can I say about this film?! I was so excited when I heard this was coming out. I have never played the game but I love watching others play it. I thought this was a really good film. Lots of action, and I loved how at first I thought it was just a one off but then they left it open for a second movie! I would highly recommend this film.
resident evil.......2007-10-01
visuals:9
story:10
fun to watch:10
overall:10
this mind chilling film is how it all started off
Amazon.co.uk Review
Given that Resident Evil is a Paul Anderson movie based on a computer game which was itself highly derivative (especially of George A Romero and James Cameron films), it's probably unfair to complain that it hasn't got an original idea or moment in its entire running time. In the early 1980s, Italian schlock films such as Zombie Flesh Eaters and Zombie Creeping Flesh tried to cram in as many moments restaged from American originals as possible, strung together by silly characters wandering between monster attacks. This is a much-improved, edited, photographed and directed version of the same gambit.
As amnesiac Milla Jovovich remembers amazing kung fu skills and anti-globalist Eric Mabius mutters about evil corporations, a gang of clichéd soldiers with nary a distinguishing feature between them (except for Michelle Rodriguez as a secondary tough chick) are trapped in an underground scientific compound at the mercy of a tyrannical computer--which manifests as a smug little-girl-o-gram--fending off flesh-eating zombies (though gore fans will be disappointed by the film's need to stay within the limits of the 15 certificate) and CGI mutants, not to mention the ever-popular zombie dogs. It's tolerably action-packed, but zips past its borrowings (Aliens, Cube, Deep Blue Sea) without adding anything that future schlock pictures will want to imitate.
On the DVD: Resident Evil on disc has the expected trailers, both teaser and theatrical; a half-hour making-of; zombie make-up tests; featurettes on music (with Marilyn Manson), production design and costume. A lively commentary track features Anderson, Jovovich, Rodriguez and producer/zombie Jeremy Bolt--Jovovich upbraids Anderson for talking about different gradings of film stock over her nude scene and everyone else talks about how much she hurt them by punching them out during action sequences. Anderson mentions an alternate commentary track with visual effects designer Richard Yuricich, but it isn't included. --Kim Newman
Customer Reviews:
milla lover.......2008-02-20
This film has it's entertaining bits, like the lazer corridor and the licker scenes. However, what sells the movie is its star the lovely Milla Jovovich, she has mesmarising screen prescence and respectable acting talent and she is a superhot superbabe. Michelle Rodriguez was good too, but played the tough girl too much. Remeniscent of Janette Goldstien's potrayal of Valasquez in Aliens.
Overall Paul Anderson's film was a good but imperfect action horror.
Curiously fascinating...........2008-01-16
occasionally revolting twist on the big bad corporation controlling everything vibe which seems peculiarly well suited to the modern era. 28 Days Later was better, but this isn't as bad as it might have been. Based on video game of the same name it should by rights be dreadful, but somehow it has a heart, you care about the characters. This is quite a brutal movie, so if you are squeamish this is definitely not for you; if however, you enjoy the "now get out of that" school of chase movie, this is fast moving and sometimes genuinely shocking.
Well I like it!.......2007-11-04
Gotta own up- don't like computer games and have never played this one, so I can't enter into the debate on whether the games translates well onto the big screen. However, as a horror film, I think it's a pretty decent attempt.
To sum up: Umbrella corporation are conducting some dodgy experiments. Soon all those who come into contact with the T virus are "undead" and yearn for human flesh. Only Alice can stop them- or can she?
It's no oscar winner. It's not the scariest film you will ever see, but it is good. Worth a watch!
Loved it!!.......2007-10-26
What can I say about this film?! I was so excited when I heard this was coming out. I have never played the game but I love watching others play it. I thought this was a really good film. Lots of action, and I loved how at first I thought it was just a one off but then they left it open for a second movie! I would highly recommend this film.
resident evil.......2007-10-01
visuals:9
story:10
fun to watch:10
overall:10
this mind chilling film is how it all started off
Customer Reviews:
Bargain.......2005-02-15
Alright, the films are far from groundbreaking but they are very good fun! And at this price you'd be mad not to buy them. There just the same as the original dvd releases but held together in a cardboard sleeve. Bargain!
The Outbreak Pack.......2005-02-06
This is the Resident Evil dvd and the Resident Evil Apocalypse dvd in an attractive cardboard sleeve. Titled the "Outbreak Pack". The dvds come shrink-wrapped in their own dvd case and are identical to the one's available for purchase separately. You just get them both at a lower price than buying them separately and of course the nice sleeve.
Amazon.co.uk Review
Given that Resident Evil is a Paul Anderson movie based on a computer game which was itself highly derivative (especially of George A Romero and James Cameron films), it's probably unfair to complain that it hasn't got an original idea or moment in its entire running time. In the early 1980s, Italian schlock films such as Zombie Flesh Eaters and Zombie Creeping Flesh tried to cram in as many moments restaged from American originals as possible, strung together by silly characters wandering between monster attacks. This is a much-improved, edited, photographed and directed version of the same gambit.
As amnesiac Milla Jovovich remembers amazing kung fu skills and anti-globalist Eric Mabius mutters about evil corporations, a gang of clichéd soldiers with nary a distinguishing feature between them (except for Michelle Rodriguez as a secondary tough chick) are trapped in an underground scientific compound at the mercy of a tyrannical computer--which manifests as a smug little-girl-o-gram--fending off flesh-eating zombies (though gore fans will be disappointed by the film's need to stay within the limits of the 15 certificate) and CGI mutants, not to mention the ever-popular zombie dogs. It's tolerably action-packed, but zips past its borrowings (Aliens, Cube, Deep Blue Sea) without adding anything that future schlock pictures will want to imitate.
On the DVD: Resident Evil on disc has the expected trailers, both teaser and theatrical; a half-hour making-of; zombie make-up tests; featurettes on music (with Marilyn Manson), production design and costume. A lively commentary track features Anderson, Jovovich, Rodriguez and producer/zombie Jeremy Bolt--Jovovich upbraids Anderson for talking about different gradings of film stock over her nude scene and everyone else talks about how much she hurt them by punching them out during action sequences. Anderson mentions an alternate commentary track with visual effects designer Richard Yuricich, but it isn't included. --Kim Newman
Customer Reviews:
milla lover.......2008-02-20
This film has it's entertaining bits, like the lazer corridor and the licker scenes. However, what sells the movie is its star the lovely Milla Jovovich, she has mesmarising screen prescence and respectable acting talent and she is a superhot superbabe. Michelle Rodriguez was good too, but played the tough girl too much. Remeniscent of Janette Goldstien's potrayal of Valasquez in Aliens.
Overall Paul Anderson's film was a good but imperfect action horror.
Curiously fascinating...........2008-01-16
occasionally revolting twist on the big bad corporation controlling everything vibe which seems peculiarly well suited to the modern era. 28 Days Later was better, but this isn't as bad as it might have been. Based on video game of the same name it should by rights be dreadful, but somehow it has a heart, you care about the characters. This is quite a brutal movie, so if you are squeamish this is definitely not for you; if however, you enjoy the "now get out of that" school of chase movie, this is fast moving and sometimes genuinely shocking.
Well I like it!.......2007-11-04
Gotta own up- don't like computer games and have never played this one, so I can't enter into the debate on whether the games translates well onto the big screen. However, as a horror film, I think it's a pretty decent attempt.
To sum up: Umbrella corporation are conducting some dodgy experiments. Soon all those who come into contact with the T virus are "undead" and yearn for human flesh. Only Alice can stop them- or can she?
It's no oscar winner. It's not the scariest film you will ever see, but it is good. Worth a watch!
Loved it!!.......2007-10-26
What can I say about this film?! I was so excited when I heard this was coming out. I have never played the game but I love watching others play it. I thought this was a really good film. Lots of action, and I loved how at first I thought it was just a one off but then they left it open for a second movie! I would highly recommend this film.
resident evil.......2007-10-01
visuals:9
story:10
fun to watch:10
overall:10
this mind chilling film is how it all started off
Amazon.co.uk Review
Given that Resident Evil is a Paul Anderson movie based on a computer game which was itself highly derivative (especially of George A Romero and James Cameron films), it's probably unfair to complain that it hasn't got an original idea or moment in its entire running time. In the early 1980s, Italian schlock films such as Zombie Flesh Eaters and Zombie Creeping Flesh tried to cram in as many moments restaged from American originals as possible, strung together by silly characters wandering between monster attacks. This is a much-improved, edited, photographed and directed version of the same gambit.
As amnesiac Milla Jovovich remembers amazing kung fu skills and anti-globalist Eric Mabius mutters about evil corporations, a gang of clichéd soldiers with nary a distinguishing feature between them (except for Michelle Rodriguez as a secondary tough chick) are trapped in an underground scientific compound at the mercy of a tyrannical computer--which manifests as a smug little-girl-o-gram--fending off flesh-eating zombies (though gore fans will be disappointed by the film's need to stay within the limits of the 15 certificate) and CGI mutants, not to mention the ever-popular zombie dogs. It's tolerably action-packed, but zips past its borrowings (Aliens, Cube, Deep Blue Sea) without adding anything that future schlock pictures will want to imitate.
On the DVD: Resident Evil on disc has the expected trailers, both teaser and theatrical; a half-hour making-of; zombie make-up tests; featurettes on music (with Marilyn Manson), production design and costume. A lively commentary track features Anderson, Jovovich, Rodriguez and producer/zombie Jeremy Bolt--Jovovich upbraids Anderson for talking about different gradings of film stock over her nude scene and everyone else talks about how much she hurt them by punching them out during action sequences. Anderson mentions an alternate commentary track with visual effects designer Richard Yuricich, but it isn't included. --Kim Newman
Customer Reviews:
milla lover.......2008-02-20
This film has it's entertaining bits, like the lazer corridor and the licker scenes. However, what sells the movie is its star the lovely Milla Jovovich, she has mesmarising screen prescence and respectable acting talent and she is a superhot superbabe. Michelle Rodriguez was good too, but played the tough girl too much. Remeniscent of Janette Goldstien's potrayal of Valasquez in Aliens.
Overall Paul Anderson's film was a good but imperfect action horror.
Curiously fascinating...........2008-01-16
occasionally revolting twist on the big bad corporation controlling everything vibe which seems peculiarly well suited to the modern era. 28 Days Later was better, but this isn't as bad as it might have been. Based on video game of the same name it should by rights be dreadful, but somehow it has a heart, you care about the characters. This is quite a brutal movie, so if you are squeamish this is definitely not for you; if however, you enjoy the "now get out of that" school of chase movie, this is fast moving and sometimes genuinely shocking.
Well I like it!.......2007-11-04
Gotta own up- don't like computer games and have never played this one, so I can't enter into the debate on whether the games translates well onto the big screen. However, as a horror film, I think it's a pretty decent attempt.
To sum up: Umbrella corporation are conducting some dodgy experiments. Soon all those who come into contact with the T virus are "undead" and yearn for human flesh. Only Alice can stop them- or can she?
It's no oscar winner. It's not the scariest film you will ever see, but it is good. Worth a watch!
Loved it!!.......2007-10-26
What can I say about this film?! I was so excited when I heard this was coming out. I have never played the game but I love watching others play it. I thought this was a really good film. Lots of action, and I loved how at first I thought it was just a one off but then they left it open for a second movie! I would highly recommend this film.
resident evil.......2007-10-01
visuals:9
story:10
fun to watch:10
overall:10
this mind chilling film is how it all started off
UK DVD:
- Resident Evil 2 - Apocalypse [2004]
- Resident Evil 3: Extinction [2007]
- Rose Red [2001]
- Salem's Lot
- Saw 3 (Extreme Edition) [2006]
- Saw 4 [2007]
- Saw Trilogy
- Scream Trilogy Box Set [1996]
- Silent Hill [2006]
- Silent Running [1972]
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