A virus has escaped in a secret facility called “The Hive“ turning the staff into hungry zombies and releasing the mutated lab animals. The complex computer shuts down the base to prevent further infection. The parent corporation sends in an elite military unit, where they meet Alice, who is suffering from amnesia due to exposure to nerve gas. The military team must shut down the computer and get out, fighting their way past zombies, mutants, and the computer itself, before the virus escapes and infects the rest of the world. Alice must also come to terms with her slowly returning memories.I‘m a fan of the Resident Evil franchise although I never really got into playing the video games. Still, the movies are ones that have just the right amount of horror, action and adventure to put a smile on my face when I watch them (yes, I have all the movies in this series.)
Not only I‘m I a fan of the Resident Evil franchise, but I‘m also a fan of Milla Jovovich. While I‘ve
not watched every movie she‘s been in, I have watched most of them that are least in the action/adventure genre (love watching her kiss ass on screen.)
What I like most about the Resident Evil franchise is that it presents us with a look at a pre- and post apocalyptic world. Resident Evil (2002) is the one to kick start us on this journey, and it‘s an entertaining ride from start to finish.
One of my favorite movies of all time. (Mila is beautiful, but believable as a badass! I'd watch her in anything!) I was never a fan of the "Romero" zombies, I know sacrilegious for me to say… They were too slow, and didn't really scare me. I wasn't buying it. In Resident Evil, they got the slow ambling nature of the Romero zombie right, but they also had a ravenous ferociousness to them… And unlike Night of the Living Dead, you couldn't just run into an open field and avoid them. There was also a forced claustrophobic element that only a subterranean complex controlled by a killer super-computer could inspire. That is why it will always be a favorite. I still choose to overlook the terrible CG of the licker that should really have been left out of the movie altogether.