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A lot has been said about this film on this very site.  As a matter of fact, I would say it has become the most debated movie on these boards (not to mention, it has brought together quite a collection of fan-made scripts):

(Qoutes are taken from the board discussing my "Resident Evil" script, "Resident Evil: Resurrection"... I'm a whore, I know, but the qoutes still prove my point).

"Better than the rubbish movie."

"...certainly truer to form than the actual R.E. film."

"...better than that crappy RESIDENT EVIL flick with Milla Jovovich."

"The movie kinda disappointed me because I was expecting to see Jill Valentine kicking butt through the entire thing."

"Paul Anderson said that he did not include characters from the game as the fans would basically know who lived and who died and which ones were not nice people.  He thought that by having different characters then everything that happened to them would be a surprise."

"Just for the record I am a fan (well not much more now) of the game, last playing RE 0, which again had a better story line than that cr** film."

(None of these comments are from me, I promise).

Well, I will admit that it seems every chance I got on these boards, I bashed the hell out of this movie.  It was almost as if I kept repeating myself, so at one point, I was considering just writing a review (usually, I try to stay as topical as possible with the reviews).  Luckily, Columbia has released this Deluxe Edition with even more extras for a mediocre film.  Lucky... me...

Paul Anderson makes shitty movies.  At this point, I think it is just a fact.  In my opinion, "Mortal Kombat" is his best, and though I would give it a "Thumbs Up," it is still an undeniably shitty film.  Most say that "Event Horizon" was his finest... but... no, I just didn't like it.  Well, when it was announced that he was to be the helmer of the "RE" film (after zombie-God George Romero was kicked off the project), I was immeadiately dissapointed.  All of a sudden, a film that could have been special became a film that I knew was just going to be painfully ho-hum.

Well, what ended up happening was not so much a horrible atrocity of a film, but instead one of the most dissapointing movies I've ever seen.  So, I guess at this point I should admit that had I been reviewing this movie two years ago when it was released in theaters, it would have probably earned a single star rating.  If you scroll down, you will see that is not the case.

The story, as it were, revolves around a Jill Valentine look-alike by the name of Alice (though I don't think anyone actually calls her by any name throughout the entire film).  She is played by the always beautiful (and almost always naked) Milla Jovavich.  She awakens from a coma in her shower (naked, see?) only to realize she has amnesia.  She doesn't know where she is, and as she walks around the strange mansion she awoke in, a man stumbles out of the shadows and takes her to the ground.  

In that instant, commandos (in full H.U.N.K. uniforms for the fans out there) come through the windows, taking the two "heroes" down.  Why are they the heroes?  Because they're being forced to do things by strong people wearing menacing gas masks... for some reason.

The "plot" is quickly explained, and soon the fighters are whisked away into an underground facility beneath the mansion where a virus was released by an evil computer gone awry.  Of course, as any fan of the game series knows, the virus doesn't just kill its victims- it kills its victims and re-animates them into the living dead.  And soon the characters are forced to stumble around the facility fighting zombies for a boring hour before the cool ending.

That's about it.

As I stated earlier, had I reviewed this two years ago, I would have really torn it a new one.  But (much like "DareDevil") it is beginning to grow on me.  Don't get me wrong: it's still a "Thumbs Down" movie (as is "DareDevil")... it's just not as bad as I remember it being.  The first twenty minutes and the last ten minutes are very cool.  The introduction, explaining how the Red Queen (the resident evil computer... I couldn't help it) is well done and has some great moments (specifacally one involving an elevator full of screaming passengers hurtling towards the bottom of the shaft).

So, that adds up to a half hour of coolness... in a 90-minute film.  What goes wrong?  Well, ironically enough, it's when the zombies show up that this starts to really fall apart... and it's when the zombies dissapear that the flick gets mildly good again.  Right before the dead rise, there is a cool laser sequence... where most of the zombie food is killed.  This is my problem.

WHERE THE F**K'S THE GORE?

Take away a few choice words and two shots of nudity on Milla, and this thing would have been a hard PG-13.  And I know I've said this before, but my point still stands: "The Mummy" has better looking living dead than this.  Granted, the villain in "The Mummy" has had much more time to age, but where were the dead dragging their intestines or the ones that lack cetain limbs, forcing them to crawl with their arms towards their victims?  Not here.  Instead, the most we get is a painfully CGI-rendered zombie missing half his head.

Oh... and the Licker.  Um... well, I'll just leave that one alone.

Needless to say, this is one suffers quite a bit from a bad script, a lack of gore, and no actual scares... in a zombie flick.  Really, this just ends up being a real dissapointment.  It's certainly not as bad as the dreaded "House of the Dead" (I can say without a doubt that that piece of shit will never, NEVER grow on me), but it's defiantly not as good as, say, "Dawn of the Dead" (or the remake for that matter).  Which is especially interesting, considering the 4-disc set of "Dawn" was released today as well.  Certainly a better buy, and I apologize for a lack of a review (4 discs are hard to sift through).

Movie: ** out of ****

DVD Extras: *** out of ****

Extras include all from the original disk (three crappy featurettes and an annoying commentary) as well as brand new, much more interesting featurettes (the one for the laser scene is worth checking out) and a much better commentary track (this one with more of the crew and not the "actors").  Also a free ticket for what is sure to be a [CAN'T PASS JUDGEMENT YET] film.
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