The Resident Evil series is very popular all over the world now. I think it is a representative zombie movie of the 21st century. This movie is based on the world famous video game series "Biohazard", which was originally made by the Japanese company Capcom. The original movie is about 90 minutes, and it was created more than ten years ago. This story is about the beginning of the world's end due to the killer virus called "T-virus". It is a story of escaping from the Hive, which is an underground science lab and fighting against the zombies. The Hive is set to lock it's entrance forever after 60 minutes have passed, so the characters are racing against time. I think this is a high quality and well-done movie.
It expresses the fear, doom, and reality of the end of the world. The CG is high quality, and also the zombie's make up is perfect too. And the actions of the characters are awesome. The main character Allis (Milla Jovovich) practiced acrobatic actions very hard. So the bruises on her body are all real. Every scene is serious, so the nervousness continues until the end. Also, there are a lot of astonishing scenes, and you will never be bored. both The movie's and the game's popularity were positively affected by each other. The boss enemy character in this movie "Likker" comes from the video game. So we know how strong and scary the "Likker" is, and we can experience the doomed feeling that the main characters have. For these reasons, I can say that this is the most representative zombie movie of the 21st century. You must check it out!
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter Trailer Reaction
It's Paul W.S. Anderson ladies and gentlemen, it was bound to happen sooner or later and actually, this is one of his better films, in my opinion, now that's not saying much for this poorly written attempt at fan service but Anderson does enough to make it a watchable, guilty pleasure. Based off the outstanding computer game franchise, Resident Evil, which in the game see a group of soldiers searching for their buddies in the forests of raccoon city and find themselves stranded in this creepy mansion, with the living dead running around and an underground laboratory which has been used to test and create a deadly virus that kills off living creatures and mutates them into the walking dead or worse... The sound premise, lots to work with, lots of characters which with a good ensemble cast and the right direction could have proved a modern day living dead franchise.
It isn't. instead, we follow Alice, Milla, as she wakes up in a mansion, who cant remember who she is and before you know it a seals team burst through the door, which includes Rodriguez, oh wait some guy shows up out of nowhere right before they arrive.... And they go into the hive, an underground facility that has been contaminated with the T-virus and everyone's dead, well sort off! It's not painful to watch, the dialogue is hilariously ropey but Milla does a good job of keeping us invested with her performance. The rest of the cast are completely expendable, 1-dimensional wastes of time, used either to fill in gaping holes in plot points or to be used to ramp up the action factor. The action is yet again, ok, some hits and misses, There is an entertaining scene with some zombie dogs and some general zombie munching that can appease timid fans but this film lacks a real sense of bite.
The gore is limited, the scares are nonexistant and the camera likes to cut far too quickly to get a sense of the full picture, I presume that was down to the studio wanting to make more money off this outing. Cinematography wise the beginning is excellent, using excellent looking sets and a gorgeous looking mansion, to create a really gorgeous and what would have you think is going to be a creepy film... Then people start talking, Marilyn Manson's music starts playing and any sense of dread is thrown out the window. Oh, i nearly forgot the CGI, Jesus, is atrocious, why? it shouldn't be? zombies have been done superbly for decades with makeup, but here Anderson goes for a mix of makeup and CGI nonsense, leaving you completely disconnected, the big baddie as well, holy shit it looks terrible. Its hilarious watching the making of and seeing Anderson talk about how the Zombies are being trained up and that the "Licker" will be an actual model/synthetic robot... its not, well maybe for a second it is, but the rest of the time it's just a horrid pink blur that kinda just flaps about and eats people from time to time. Over all its a omnishambles of a film but a strong leading performance, some lovely visual work and the odd bit of action here and there leave you with something to turn your brain off and watch.
I liked it a lot, but a substantial amount of my interest in the films has to be credited to my love for the games. The film, based on events leading to Umbrella's T-virus escaping into Raccoon city, does a fantastic job of separating itself from the video game enough so that players aren't bored and non-players aren't lost. Using an entire character list different from the games, I felt myself not knowing what was going to happen next, which was good. I'm glad they incorporated creatures that are terrifying, but not unbeatable for downgraded weaponry and finite ammo. The dogs, the lickers.. damn.. this movie was well done. Milla Jovovich is hot and she knows it... the woman is not afraid to show off that body. Probably why she's a super model. M. Rod is so disgusting that I had to take off half a star for poor casting.