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Resident Evil (Deluxe Edition)

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It was really funny when this DVD came out because it is titled "Resident Evil: DELUXE EDITION" and in actuality there are more special features on the original release. The only thing one could label "Deluxe" about this edition is that it has a small about a 2 minute clip from Resident Evil 2.

So, if you are looking to buy Resident Evil, then its a fun movie. But if your looking for "deluxe special features", then this is most definately the wrong place.

The first installment in the Resident Evil series starts off on an entertaining note. While it's nothing spectacular, it knew it wasn't, and therefore it wasn't trying to seem spectacular, because it really wasn't.
Basically, Resident Evil is just a popcorn flick, adapted from the popular video game series of the same name.
We follow amnesiac Alice, who struggles to survive with a small group of ragtag companions in the locked-down facility of the Umbrella Corporation, where a horrible virus has broken out. Turns out the virus is turning all of the employees into zombies, and Alice and her friends have to escape the clutches of the zombie horde and a rogue super-computer before they all become dog food (because the lab animals escape too, of course). Their mission is to shut down the super-computer and get the hell out of there, pronto. Of course, things don't always go according to plan...
All in all, Resident Evil is a solid, entertaining horror-action movie that's sure to... well... entertain.

*** out of *****

When I heard that the director of the film is the same director of Mortal Combat, I thought it'll be a good fun film, with lots of action and zombies. The result is a dull, stupid and intellectless movie. I can't find one good reason to watch this, it's not even fun, nor scary, nor interesting. I understand that it's based on the game, so they had to make it just like the game, but maybe they could've change it a little bit to make it better, especially, let's say the end. The end of the movie shows that there's supposed to be a continuation, just like the game, but that movie kind of failed, and a "Resident Evil 2" movie maybe would never be exist because of that.

Instead of making a movie based of the game "Resident Evil", I can't find one bad reason for the game "Half-Life" not to have a movie based on it. "Half-Life" really fits to be a movie. It's about the same: a secret underground lab, zombies, mutantes etc, but it's better, more interesting and the most important thing: it's a lot more famous than "Resident Evil" and there's no doubt it'll be more successful. Ever since watching "Resident Evil - The Movie" I dream about "Half-Life: The Movie".

Though I didn't like this movie, I surely hope this game is a start for new movies based on pc/playstation games.

Some fans of the Resident Evil video game complained that the film was not true to the game; I have never played the game, so I can't comment on that, but in a sense such a criticism is neither here nor there. It's more important to know that Resident Evil is as much an homage to George Romero films as it is to its video game origins, although I am sure many tried and true Romero fans won't like Resident Evil for its somewhat poor and certainly imitative borrowing of Romero's zombie ideas. Resident Evil doesn't stop there, as it borrows from other sci-fi and horror films; the method the Red Queen uses to kill several characters trapped in a corridor is lifted right out of the low-budget, cult favorite (and successfully eerie) film Cube. Paul Anderson is a talented filmmaker, to be sure, and Resident Evil is a slick looking film with sparkling clear photography. Anderson's screenplay isn't as simplistic as one might expect from this type of movie and it proceeds through a series of flashbacks to tell part of it story. Milla Jovovich, whose energy, presence, and looks always out-pace her acting, is just the type of actress to play Alice. Add to that the nice touch of giving the Red Queen the voice of a young British girl, and you have a film that rises above mediocrity ... even if it never really impresses.

It doesn't help this film that zombie movies in general are difficult to take seriously these days, unless the zombies are tounge-in-cheek. But Resident Evil is fun and slightly scary. Just remember that this is derivative, not original, filmmaking and that you too can own this DVD for less than full price. That would be the justification for actually owning it.

4.5 out of 5

When Alice (Milla Jovovich) wakes up on a shower floor inside a mansion with no memory, she has little time to try and get herself together. Soon the place is infiltrated by commandos, who then take her down beneath the mansion to an underground train and into a place called the Hive, a hidden underground facility where the powerful Umbrella Corporation was conducting secret experiments.

The problem is something had gone wrong before the team got there.

And the dead are coming back to life.

Alice and the commandos dodge zombies, the Hive's super sophisticated security system--called the Red Queen--and teammates who have secrets of their own.

It would be a miracle if anyone makes it out of the Hive . . . alive.

This movie is pure suspense. Every little sound, thump and bump make you wonder when a zombie's going to pop out of nowhere and devour one of the living. Keeping things even creepier is the Hive itself. It's location: a half mile below Raccoon City. Space is limited. Time is running out. You feel the tension all the way through, right from when Alice wakes up till the blood-soaked climax.

I loved this movie. The only reason I'm knocking off half a point is because the plot is super simple (though they make you feel otherwise). However, this flick serves as an awesome back story for what's to come because there have been two sequels so far (Resident Evil: Apocalypse and Resident Evil: Extinction) and a fourth one to come in 2011, currently called Resident Evil: Afterlife.

This movie definitely served its purpose of setting things up for the saga to come, and wasted no time going through zombie origin stuff before getting hardcore into the action, mystery and carnage. Director/writer Paul W.S. Anderson nailed it with this film. Though--according to my Mrs--this flick was different than the game, I enjoyed it big time and have been a fan of the franchise since. Guess I owe my wife one for introducing it to me back when this film came out.

Zombie fans will love this movie and it's easy to see why Resident Evil has the following it does.

Recommended.

A.P. Fuchs
Canister X

There's just something about watching a hot babe laying the smack down on anyone and anything that gets in her way - and no one does it better than Milla Jovovich. She is, to put it mildly, a whole lot of woman. Resident Evil isn't all about Milla, though; nor is it all about the gore (actually, the movie wasn't nearly as gory as I expected). Above all, though, Resident Evil is not to be dismissed as just another video game adaptation thrown haphazardly together just to make money. This film has substance, subplots, and surprises to go along with the generally impressive special effects and, for my money, pretty good acting. In other words, while the unfortunate denizens of the Hive may be essentially brainless, Resident Evil is not.

I have only limited experience playing the original video game. I never got very far into it, mainly because I wasn't very adept in the gameplay department and didn't spend the time necessary to significantly improve my minimal skills. All I remember is exploring the house and trying to kill the occasional zombie that popped up along the way as the music did the principal work of creating a spooky atmosphere. The movie is much more intense than that - and far more suspenseful. It's not like some clumsy scientist just happened to drop a beaker, thereby exposing the deadly T-virus all of his geeky colleagues. On the contrary, this story generates a whole host of questions in the first few moments, questions such as who released the virus and why, but also why is the room housing such a deadly virus tied in to the ventilation system of the whole complex to begin with? (I can't say I got an answer to that last one.) I actually had to go back and watch the exposure moment a second time because I thought I had missed something the first time.

Don't expect Milla's character to supply you with any early answers, as Alice wakes up in a ritzy-looking house with no memory of who she is. Even the shocking jolt of a stranger claiming to be a cop grabbing her just before a team of commandoes suddenly crash through the windows fails to jog her memory, but she doesn't question the special ops commander when he tells her she is one of two security agents stationed in the house to protect that particular entrance to The Hive, the mega-powerful Umbrella corporation's top-secret, underground facility devoted to all kinds of dangerous and illegal research into bioweapons and the like - and that her amnesia is the temporary byproduct of exposure to a nerve gas. By the time she and the suspicious cop accompany the group to the entrance to The Hive, Alice has met her equally amnesiac "husband" and learned that the Red Queen, The Hive's central AI, locked the whole facility down and killed everyone inside in an effort to try and contain the super-deadly T-virus from spreading outside the complex. Their mission is to get to the Red Queen. It sounds pretty simple, what with everybody down there being dead and all. As they soon discover, however, those 500-odd dead bodies have arisen as blood-thirsty, flesh-eating zombies, and the Red Queen isn't going to let anyone into her inner chamber without putting up a fight.

The majority of the movie, to no one's surprise, consists of the team members trying to survive the onslaught of hordes of zombies, high-tech computer defenses of last resort, etc. As all of that exciting action is taking place, however, we see Alice trying to sort through the memories coming back to her in intermittent waves. She is a much more central figure in all of this than even she knows early on, and she isn't the only team member with secrets to be revealed. That leads to some surprisingly effective plot twists that not only advanced the story in important and plausible ways; they were also presented very much in the context of earlier scenes in the movie.

It doesn't matter if you've ever played the video game or not - Resident Evil is just an exciting, action-packed horror film. I don't consider it to be the least bit scary, but it is quite atmospheric. As a horror fan, I must say I've never counted zombies among my favorite monsters - let's face it, they're basically mindless, slow-footed creatures with no erotic potential whatsoever - so I'm not just whistling Dixie when I say that Resident Evil is a great movie. Of course, a lot of the credit has to go to Milla Jovovich, the finest of one-woman killing machines.

oh boy.i recall watching this movie maybe two years ago and liking it.this time,i wasn't impressed at all.i found this movie to be one long bore,punctuated by a few minutes of action her and there.this movie just didn't work for me,plain and simple.there were two good things about it though.one was the pretty decent makeup effects.the other was the music,kind of techno/trance.otherwise this felt like the one of the longest 100 minutes of my life.i thought Doom was a better movie.it was fun and didn't take itself seriously.Maybe Resident Evil would have been better if they had made it a bit lighter or at least added some humour.my vote for Resident Evil:1.5/5.

"I shot her five times,
How was she still standing?
(rapid machine gun fire) B---- Isn't standing now.""

"This is Going to slow us down."

Resident Evil: Based on the super popular video games of the same name.

Basic plot, OH Geeeze Meathead don't spoil it for the rest of us who might want to see it. Players of the Resident Evil series of video games will recognise many of the scenes and plot elements. I didn't becuase I haven't played the games except maybe the first or second one once or twice (whichever one starts outside the mansion). OK so without giving too much away, a deadly virus breaks out in a super secret experimental laboratory complex that is controled by a supercomputer Named "The Red Queen" that has gone out-of-control so the powers that be send in the marines so to speak (a special forces type paramilitary unit). Meanwhile the main character Alice played by Jovovich has amnesia, a side effect of nerve gas released by the Red Queen, and slowly regains her memory as events unfold. Yes there are intentional parralels to Louis Carols Alice In Wonderland. I enjoyed this movie although you do have to turn off your brain as with most other movies of this genre. An interesting bit of trivia is that Night of the Living Dead (1968) Director George A. Romero, was originally on board to write and direct, but left the project due to creative differences over the script. The sound is typical Sci-fi, Horror, suspense heavy metal type music scored by Marco Beltrami and get this Marilyn Manson. Oddly enough despite that bizarre match up the music works. As for the plot etc... The result is something like Demon Seed meets Night of The Living Dead, meets Lara Croft - Tomb Raider with a little Total Recall and Raiders of The Lost Ark thrown in. I liked one scene which according to Internet Movie Data Base was inspired by and is very similar to a scene in the Canadian movie The Cube. My entertainment dollar was well spent even with the slightly cheesy CGI effects and occasional cheap Zombie makeup mixed with just plain gory Zombie makeup. BTW they don't ever call the undead creatures Zombies, they usually refer to them as the monsters or creatures or things, wouldn't you?

The Quality is very good overall so out of 5 stars or discs or thumbs or whatever you wants. I give Resident Evil a 4 for the sound and the picture quality a 4.5

First off, I have never played the game so I was able to watch the movie unbiased. Which I guess worked to my favor since I absolutely love this movie. I know people who played the game don't really care for it because it doesn't follow but I loved it.

I loved it because it is a good concept movie, which you don't get a whole lot these days. My favorite person was Caplan. I wish he made it to the end but you can't have everything right?

Anyway, the movie starts out in the Hive. You get a look at someone throwing a vile in the lab and running. You see three different settings going on. The Red Queen notices the broken vile and takes action. People are killed by drowning, falling in the elevator or by the halox (is the spelled right?). Then cut to Alice, who is in the shower and apparently has fainted.

The movie is perfect, simply because a movie can't be perfect. Your going to get some people saying the hated it and some people saying it was ok and some people loving it. I think it is definately worth seeing for yourself and making up your own mind.

The last scene of the movie (I won't go into detail), I think is the best scene. In one scene, Milla portrays just about every emotion there is in this one scene. Scared, confused, disoriented, terrified, amazement, wonderment, lonliness, hurt, betrayal, strength and courage.

See the movie, if only one time and draw your own opinions. Go in with an open mind and come out with your conclusion.

Oh man, I don't even know where to start with this review.
First of, I should say, that Resident Evil is another botched attempt by a movie company (Screen Gems) to bring
another game title to the bring screen.
All movies based on game titles have sucked :Final Fantasy,
Mortal Kombat are just 2 examples. In fact, the same idiotic director who made those terrible Mortal Kombat movies directed this piece of junk!!!

Once I knew that, I knew the movie was going to suck.
I just didn't how much it would suck, until I saw it.
After seeing it, I have to say that Capcom did probably the most stupidest thing they could have done, by giving the rights for this movie to be made.

Furthermore, Capcom, obviously didn't care, how the director was going to follow the game, because if they had, they would have seen that the film does horrible injustice to the game.
It does not follow up the story and plot to the games.
In fact, none of the characters from the game: Chris Redfield, Claire Redfill, Jill, or Leon, the policeman are in the film.
To understand why Resident Evil is a pitiful attempt
to bring the game to the screen, you have to know the
story in Resident Evil games.

An evil corporation called Umbrella, has unwilligenly
or willingly (depending on who you ask) has unleashed
a virus called the "T virus". The T virus has the effect, of killing people and then making them zombies.

Even more scary is the fact, that the Umbrella knows
about the situation but is covering it up. Only a handful of corrupt politicians and Umbrella personnel know about the virus. In the first RE game, a team of special police officers, trace the roots of the virus to a mansion, harboring all sorts of monsters. In fact, "the scene of the mansion" is in the movie, but that's one of a few similiarities between the game and the movie. Eventually the last survivors of the mansion Chris Redfield, Jill Valentine escape only to be separated . (...)

Birkin is himself infected, by a more powerful virus,
and is mutated to another horrible beast. Eventually all the survivors escape, and thus stop the Umbrella corporation from doing more damage to Racoon City.

That's basically the Re games. Sounds cool,doesn't it?

The Crappy, Sucky Movie version of Resident Evil

The movie starts out in the Umbrella Corporation.
Everthing is calm and cool, until an employee drops a
chemical container containing the T virus into the
floor. Then all hell breaks loose, because it seems that
Umbrella's computer known as the Red Queen, has isolated and
captured all of Umbrella's employees and plans to kill them.
In fact, some of the death scene in Re are actually
pretty good, but most of them are not. So eventually most of the people in Umbrella die, due to this supercomputer. LOL.
This is garbage that is made up. In the Re games,
there is no "Red Queen" that is causing the killing in
Racoon City, and in Umbrella. The killing is brought
upon by the heads of Umbrella, and corrupt politicians, who have knowingly released the virus and are trying to cover
it up. Instead, we get Milla Jolladovich, playing some drugged out,security officer named Alice Prospero.
Then comes the ridiculous plot of the movie, which is that
most of the damage inflicted on the personnel of Umbrella,
is by a computer called "The Red Queen" which
unleashes a set of death traps, to anyone infected with
the "T virus".

Practically the only part of the game that the movie
stays true to is in fact that Umbrella has created a virus called the "T virus" which it plans to use for germ warfare.
However, that's how close you'll come to similiarities once again between the game and the movie.

Eventually Ms. Prospero is rescued, (technically she
is put in the custody) of a group of special police cops ,
to infiltrate Umbrella and find out what the hell is going on.

Adding more confusion (and laughter) to the situation
is that Ms. Prospero has amnesia and doesn't understand her connection to Umbrella. Well it's revealed that Ms. Prospero was working with someone in Umbrella, to expose to the media the virus that Umbrella was creating.

However, that person died, along with the evidence that
Umbrella is responsible for the chaos in Racoon City and
Umbrella.

Eventually these bumbling cops eventually meet a holographic
image of the Red Queen who says "I've been a very bad girl".

LOL. Yeah and I would have added "I've been a bad actress
to be in this film too".

Eventually the remaining cops become aware of the zombies and other monsters and try to escape from Umbrella headquarters....

Besides the terrible acting, script and story in Resident Evil, there is also a lack of creatures from the games.

The zombies , zombie dogs, and lickers are in R.E. but
here is a whole of creatures and monsters not in the movie:

Giant, poisonous spiders, killer sharks, 2 arm ferocious hunters, large killer poisonous plants and the over 6ft tall indestructible Tyrants in the game. A waste of a golden opportunity to make a good movie.