Resident Evil 310
The latest in a line of video game adaptations, Resident Evil was released over the weekend. While past conversions such as Super Mario Brothers and Street Fighter were box-office flops, Resident Evil has the chance to break the game-to-movie-flop habit. While the movie is not a straight port of the game, it can still offer a good viewing experience.
The movie takes place in Raccoon City, USA, within a secret underground research lab called The Hive. The lab's work on a cell regeneration medicine ("the T-Cell serum:) for the Umbrella Corporation has a very negative side effect: it reverts the donor into a creature with basic instinctive needs. A lab experiment causes the virus to be released in the air circulation system and, after a logic snafu from the Red Queen (The Hive's AI), this AI quarantines the lab and kills everyone who may have been exposed to the virus.
A SWAT team (not STARS, for the Resident faithful), is sent to find out what's going on. After finding Alice (Milla Jovovich), they break into the HIVE. The Red Queen's traps have fun with the troops, and one they figure things are going their way, the dead scientists of the HIVE are released. On top of that, they're all thirsty for blood.
From here, it goes into a Night of the Living Dead shoot-and-scream-a-thon. There are some genuine scares, but most of them are peppered with shouting and running. There wasn't enough time to get to know the characters before they start getting killed off. The movie tries to be like Aliens in some respects, and sometimes it works.
Plot notwithstanding, the movie still offers a good viewing. It is a shame that George Romero didn't take the project, as was the original plan. Instead, it was taken by Paul Anderson (Soldier, Event Horizon, Mortal Kombat), whose influences show with strobe lights, dark passageways, and a loud soundtrack. Go and see it during the matinee, or wait for it on video. AfterThought: For those who are also fans of anime, here is a video you may wish to download: Resident Eva . It uses the trailer's audio track and makes good use of Neon Genesis Evangelion.
mirror (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Oh my. (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Milla Jovavich (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Not all video game movies are flops (Score:3, Informative)
Thoughts on the movie... (Score:2, Informative)
"Resident Evil" is a zombie movie set in the 21st century and therefore reflects several advances over 20th century films. For example, in 20th century slasher movies, knife blades make a sharpening noise when being whisked through thin air. In the 21st century, large metallic objects make crashing noises just by being looked at.
George Romero (Score:3, Informative)
If you go over to Coming Attractions [corona.bc.ca], you'll discover that George Romero wanted the project quite a bit, and had alot of cool ideas.
Capcom apparently didn't like being shown how to make a Zombie franchise.
Here's to hoping that RE starts a resurgance of Zombie movies so we can see George in action again.
Pong, The Movie (Score:5, Informative)
Some people just have way the fuck too much time on their hands.
Re:Decent movies stand alone (Score:3, Informative)
The movie and games are full of fake science, but can anyone explain to me why the zombies can not feed on each other but must consume creatures that are alive?
OMFG I Hated this movie (Score:3, Informative)
Milla is a cutie and all but my lord that was THE WORST sound I have ever heard in a movie. I sat there the *entire* movie with my ears plugged.
the sharp very very loud stabbing sounds to add some dramatic effect to _every_ turn of milla's head was just making me wince through the whole thing.
I think that the only reason that milla was in there was to over deliver on her signature surprised look.
and the other girl - michelle rodriguez. WORST ACRTESS in recent memory. I wanted to punch her by the end of the flick.
ALL in all - RE SUCKED MAJOR ASS. dont waste a dime.
Nude Surprise! (Score:2, Informative)
no one's mentioned it but I'm a nit-picker (Score:2, Informative)