Resident Evil

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Resident Evil

R

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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Sharai Bohannon

A Nightmare On Fierce Street Podcast

This movie doesn’t understand why the games work. You can’t just put zombies in a place with an Umbrella logo and act like you ate. It also has too many bodies on screen to give us tension. It feels like a Lady Gaga escape room.

Rated: 1.5/5

May 23, 2025

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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

The Post 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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bob t

Don't go into it expecting a horror movie because even though it has jumpscares, non of them got me and i'm not into horror movies at all. This movie is just an awesome action flick.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

10/04/25

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Audience Member

I ripped all of the series and am watching for the first time- it's ok. Weird, grim, dark- it has elements that are cool and then some kind of meh stuff thrown in. When I ripped them I figured they made 6 of them they can't be too bad. We'll see- the first is usually the best and the rest will have to at least be as good or it will not interest me to watch all of them.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

08/30/25

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Pedro Henrique C

Resident Evil is not a perfect film, but entertaining the audience with an interesting suspenseful tone is a good action scene from the 2000s.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

05/26/25

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Emily M

My favourite movie of the franchise. Love this movie, has some good jump scares. Definitely a comfort movie.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

04/10/25

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my shoes y

good also slipknot

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/23/25

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AJ L

Genuinely awesome. Critics way off

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/13/25

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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: Impact Pictures, New Legacy, 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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