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Review by Chad
Added: March 10, 2004
Disclaimer: I've only played Resident Evil parts 1 and 2 on Playstation. Those were played quite some time ago. I may have forgotten some details from the games.
They really dropped the proverbial ball on this one. Instead of taking the insanely popular video game and making it into a movie, they borrowed the zombies, the licker, and the various names and made something totally different. Instead of using the fully developed, nicely done storyline from the games, they just threw some crap together and slapped on the Resident Evil title. Now, I'm all for directors changing some stuff up in remakes or game-to-movie deals, but this was just crazy.
The game basically puts you in a house, where you need to find the other people. The house is swarming with zombies. You need to kill the zombies. Pretty simple concept, but it worked out quite nicely in the two games I've played... so why couldn't they base it on that?
And my biggest gripe with this, was the complete lack of zombie action to be found. The first zombie is shown at 42:00 into the movie, and there's a severe shortage of zombie scenes; I didn't time it or anything, but I'd venture to guess that there's thirty minutes (out of 1:40:00) of on-screen zombie time. Throwing in the licker as they did was lame. He got a grand total of one kill, and two short scenes. Maybe this was done because the CGI they used to create it was so shitty? Who knows, I sure don't.
Before watching this, I thought I'd at least halfway enjoy it; I'm a fan of the game series and I love zombie movies, so this should be right up my alley. No sir, with all the fuckup's that were to be found, this was utter crap.
On the subject of the zombies: the effects that were used were balls. With the exception of three or four "big-scene" zombies, most looked like normal humans with no makeup whatsoever. Now, I realize this kinda fit into the storyline, but they're REANIMATED CORPSES. Doesn't that warrant just a touch of a different look?
After all my griping, there was a few nice things going on. The storyline, even though it had nothing to do with the game series, was decently put together. The one licker kill was nice, what was shown of it... as were the very few zombie kills. The acting was nicely done, and the soundtrack was great. I suppose these few things would bump the rating up to a solid 4/10.
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#1:
385
- added 09/21/2004, 03:32 PM
i think this might have been based on Resident
Evil Zero, course i havent played the game, i just
know that its supposed to be the back story or
soemthing. *shrug*
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#2:
HeatoN
- added 11/27/2004, 12:19 AM
i was anticipating the release of this movie for a
couple years before it came out, expecting to be a
basic reenactment of the game...boy was i
wrong...very dissapointing..dont even rent unless
your completely bored some evening.
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#3:
ScarsRstarS
- added 01/10/2006, 08:39 AM
I thought this was a very good film. I thought it
was highly over rated but still very good.
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#4:
Rik
- added 09/22/2007, 02:06 AM
I actually find this movie to be pretty good. If
you wanna compact the first Resident Evil game
into 1:40:00, I think that's too short a time.
6/10
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#5:
BuryMeAlive
- added 10/21/2007, 05:53 PM
Ok, I'm not into the videogames to compare, but I
thought it was a good action movie.
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#6:
Ginose
- added 01/18/2008, 01:46 PM
I agree, this was a solid action/horror blend that
did nothing for the game. But, honestly, who
cares? 6.6/10 from me.
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#7:
Lucid Dreams
- added 08/30/2009, 11:16 AM
The action was alright on this film, but the
acting was pretty awful. I really hated how more
then half the crew at the start did not die by
zombies. It's a zombie film, so let's have them
not die by zombies. 4/10
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#8:
brendan
- added 11/07/2009, 09:46 PM
im with 385
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#9:
calex11395
- added 04/28/2010, 11:18 PM
"I actually find this movie to be pretty
good. If you wanna compact the first Resident Evil
game into 1:40:00, I think that's too short a
time. 6/10"
Nah the fastest run I have
seen on RE:Director's Cut arranged mode as Chris
was 1:36:22
The movie was good, but it
is no where near as good as the video game's
storyline.
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#10:
Greg Follender
- added 04/30/2010, 11:36 PM
I'm with Chad on this one, I'm afraid...
Utter shite.
3.5/10
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