Resident Evil

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Resident Evil

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Released Mar 15, 2002

1h 40m

Horror

Action

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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.

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Critics Consensus

Like other video game adapations, Resident Evil is loud, violent, formulaic, and cheesy.

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Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

An ultra-gory video game-to-movie disappointment.

Rated: 2/5

Dec 28, 2010

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Scott Foundas

Variety

Despite a promising setup, pic never really goes anywhere, instead immersing viewers in a kinetic onslaught of flesh (namely, that of Milla Jovovich) and flesh-eaters (most of the rest of the cast).

Mar 31, 2009

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Derek Adams

Time Out

Hats off, however, to the production team for the set designs and one very imaginative death-by-laser sequence. The rest is a derivative, tedious mess.

Jun 24, 2006

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

If you can manage to shut off your brain, you might allow yourself to get caught up in its claustrophobic action, which has sufficient production value to keep your mind off of the ludicrous storyline.

Rated: 2.5/4

Mar 8, 2024

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James Croot

Stuff.co.nz

Zombie movies of course allow for a certain degree of poor acting – and that certainly is the case here.

Rated: 2/5

Apr 4, 2022

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Grant Watson

Fiction Machine

Here is the truth of it: film critics, generally speaking, are rather too hard on poor Paul W.S. Anderson. At his best, he is a marvellous purveyor of slickly engineered B-grade entertainment.

Rated: 7/10

Apr 26, 2021

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D P

Strange thing about this story is that I did not know the general plot before watching it. I am thinking this is a futuristic sci-fi action movie based on the first half hour. Then it suddenly takes a turn into a zombie movie. It was the sharpest head swivel ever. It turned out to be entertaining.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/14/25

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David C

No está tan mal es buena pero los efectos son un poco chafas

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/02/25

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Obi-wan K

I cant say much tbh its a alright video game movie

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

12/25/24

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Bharat T

I don't care what others say I totally enjoyed this movie as a teenager and I still enjoy watching it sometimes whenever I can with my friends and family. What did you expect an oscar level performance out of an early video game based movie? Is this movie video game accurate? Nope it's not but acting like it's some kind of disappointment, nah man you need to go watch other video game movies that we have now and especially the later installments of this franchise. Call it whatever you wanna call it, it's still a decent movie which you can watch. Don't get me wrong, I know it's far from perfect but definitely not a bad movie especially considering the fact that it can entertain.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

12/23/24

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Guilherme F

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Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

12/14/24

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John F

This is not true to the game at all. The just pulled stuff out of their ass on this and it’s sequels.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

12/04/24

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Synopsis

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.

Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Producer: Jeremy Bolt, Bernd Eichinger, Samuel Hadida, Paul W.S. Anderson
Screenwriter: Alan B. McElroy
Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Production Co: New Legacy, Impact Pictures, Metropolitan, Davis Films
Rating: R (Nudity|Language|Sexuality|Strong Horror Violence|Strong Sci-Fi Violence)
Genre: Horror, Action
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 15, 2002, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 16, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA): $39.5M
Runtime: 1h 40m
Sound Mix: Dolby Stereo, Dolby A, Surround, Dolby Digital, Dolby SR
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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