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Joe Baltake
Sacramento Bee Movie Critic
The grisly new thriller "Resident Evil," based on an apparently very popular video game, gets the job done. As incoherent as it often is (or is it just dense to anyone over the age of 20?), this new zombie flick manages to work as a genuinely terrifying movie, with each scene gruesomely and relentlessly charging at us with the drooling drive of a fiend. ...
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
"Resident Evil" is a zombie movie set in the 21st century and therefore reflects several advances over 20th century films. For example, in 20th century slasher movies, knife blades make a sharpening noise when being whisked through thin air. In the 21st century, large metallic objects make crashing noises just by being looked at. ...
Bob Strauss
L.A. Daily News
One thing this film does succeed at is setting up a shooting gallery rhythm and sustaining it. Once it gets going, "Resident Evil" is a relentless, run-and-blast tension ride through high-tech mazes crawling with flesh-eating zombies, computerized laser-slicers, skinned Dobermans and worse. ...
Chris Hewitt
St. Paul Pioneer Press
What it is, is an energetic, violent movie with a momentum that never lets up. It's good in the way that TV's "Real World" is good or eating an entire box of Girl Scout peanut butter patties is good. There's no nutritional value whatsoever but, gee, it's fun, mostly because the heroines in "Resident Evil," played by Milla Jovovich and Michelle Rodriguez, make Lara Croft look like a wuss. ...
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Resident Evil
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(2002)
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Overview:
Based on the popular video game, Milla Jovovich and Michelle Rodriguez star as the leaders of a commando team who must break into "the hive," a vast underground genetics laboratory operated by the powerful Umbrella Corporation. There, a deadly virus has been unleashed, killing the lab's personnel and resurrecting them as the evil Un-Dead. The team has just three hours to shut down the lab's supercomputer and close the facility before the virus threatens to overrun the Earth.
Starring:
Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Eric Mabius, James Purefoy, Martin Crewes and Colin Salmon
Writer-director:
Paul W.S. Anderson
Cinematographer:
David Johnson
Composers:
Marco Beltrami and Marilyn Manson
Studio:
Screen Gems
Release Date:
March 15, 2002
MPAA Rating:
(R) - for strong sci-fi/horror violence, language and brief sexuality/nudity
Running Time:
100 minutes
Websites:
Official Site
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