IMDb plot summary: A special military unit fights a powerful, out-of-control supercomputer and hundreds of scientists who have mutated into flesh-eating creatures after a laboratory accident.
Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson. Starring Milla Jovovich, Eric Mabius, Michelle Rodriguez, and James Purefoy.
Jacob and I have played a couple of the Resident Evil games together so I was very loosely familiar with the series' zombie mythos, which the movie seems to stick to pretty closely. It definitely *feels* like a video game movie, with cut scenes and clearly-defined location-based fights. The monsters are nice and creepy in the games, but the effects in the film aren't nice enough for them to blend in with the real-life people in the scenes. The staging and pacing choices are nice, though, and there are some unsettling scenes in here once the movie finally gets going (it takes what feels like forever to get to the zombies). The characters don't matter even a little bit, so the twist isn't terribly effective, and the movie seems to play fast and loose with its own rules every so often. (I was very confused by the character who was dead and then not actually dead but then suddenly a zombie anyway.) Probably my favorite part, though, was the ending, where the character escapes from where she's been kept only to find that all the zombies have clearly escaped and the world is overrun. It's obviously meant to set it up for more sequels but I like it on its own as a creepy ending to the story. It's a good image.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Resident Evil < Blow Out
Resident Evil > Side Effects
Resident Evil < The Prince and the Pauper (2000)
Resident Evil > Beaches
Resident Evil < War of the Buttons (1994)
Resident Evil > A Dangerous Method
Resident Evil > Hellraiser
Resident Evil > The Amazing Spider-Man
Resident Evil > Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Resident Evil > Horton Hears a Who
Resident Evil < Hollywood Homicide
Final spot: #1979 out of 3011, or 34%.
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