Resident Evil (2002)

This is the polar opposite of films I love, in comparison to my last review (Reservoir Dogs). Now I don't get why this got such bad reviews when it came out, I personally think it's brilliant. It's no Reservoir Dogs, but it's certainly better than 90% of the tripe Hollywood make and is probably the best video game adaption ever. I understand why some of the sequels get slaughtered in their reviews (will be reviewing them soon), but this dosen't deserve the panning it often gets.

First off Milla Jovovich is great. She does that "what the hell is going on" face very well and is a very underrated actress (see Fifth Element or Forth Kind). Plus (and I think i'm aloud to say this about as my fiance likes her too) she is pretty damn hot. Yes she has zero "boobage" but the eyes, which clearly the director/s likes as they like to focus shots on them alot, are piercing and of course the legs in that red dress and boots..... Wow.

Anyway i'm distracted. OK Paul Anderson isn't the best director of action in the world, but the action does the job. The scene with the dogs is over the toply (is that a word?) cool as is the finale with the "licker". The cgi isn't brilliant, but what do you want for a relatively low budget film.

The acting is a bit hit and miss. Hit - Milla (of course), Michelle Rodriguez as the hard bitch, Colin Salmon as the token cool English black man that the director loves to slice into pieces (see AvP) and Eric Mabius does a fine job. James Purefoy on the other hand is a bit, meh. The seen where he just stands there waiting for the lift door to open in particular it's like he just read it off the page for the 1st time. Oh and, nothing to do with acting really but there is a "zombie" that makes me crack up, in the 1st proper action sequence there's one zombie extra in the background that seems to fall over for no apparent reason.

I know people are going "but it has nothing to do with the game". Yes this is true but if you want the game, go play the game, simple. I love Resident Evil. It's not going to win any Oscar's, but as an action horror movie it is solid and (SPOILER ALERT) I bet none of you thought everyone bar one character was going to die.

8/10