- Studio: Screen Gems
- Release Date: Mar 15, 2002
- Starring: Michelle Rodriguez, Milla Jovovich
- Summary: A secret experiment...a deadly virus...a fatal mistake. Based on the wildly popular video game series, Resident Evil is an action-packed thriller starring Milla Jovovich in a battle of good and evil, human versus computer, the living against the Undead. (Sony Pictures)
- Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
- Genre(s): Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Horror
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 24
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Mixed: 11 out of 24
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Negative: 11 out of 24
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63One of the few video game movies to truly re-create the gaming experience -- from the three-dimensional maps to the structure of encountering increasingly grisly and dangerous foes at higher levels of play.
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58A splattery futuristic zombie thriller, designed as a jolt-a-minute freakout for young audiences who were numbed into submission long ago.
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50The dialogue is nothing to speak of, but the movie has a dynamite opening sequence in which the corporation turns on its workers, leaving them, if not dead, then with "virtually no intelligence," like office workers everywhere.
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38While computer games can boast an abundance of nifty graphics and odious villains and plucky protagonists on long journeys, they're invariably a tad wanting in the cinematic essentials -- you know, stuff like plot and characterization and theme.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 65 out of 95
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Mixed: 11 out of 95
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Negative: 19 out of 95
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