It's hard to believe the Resident Evil film franchise has only been going 9 years now, but it was only 2002 when Paul W.S. Anderson unleashed his version of the popular video game upon an unsuspecting world. Anderson was wise to hire the kick-ass Milla Jovovich as lead mutant zombie killer Alice (and even wiser to marry the sexy minx) and the supporting ensemble are not your usual bunch of forgettable zombie fodder. You've got your James 'Solomon Kane' Purefoy, your Colin ' I wanna be the first black James Bond' Salmon and in a stunning piece of surprise casting Michelle Rodriguez as feisty, pissed off Latino bird.
Take a simple premise, add zombies, guns, martial arts, CGI mutants and lots of slow motion shots of things and people doing cool shit and you have a solid bullshit action movie. The score has lots of guitars in it, there's tons of computer graphics to provide exposition and Milla is eye candy for the boys. Considering it's shot by the same guy who directed Event Horizon, the film has a disappointingly cheap look to it, but other than that the film does exactly what it says on the tin.
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