Posted by Kiss lt at netcache-1113.public.svc.webtv.net on March 16, 2002 at 18:50:40:
I never had my thoughts on a flick do a 180. Leave it to a movie that I followed very closely and then dismissed during post as just another Tomb Raider to change all of that. As much as I hated MK, the director did a great job with Resident evil. The prequel-RE1-beginning of RE2 story, as well as the entire development was great. They rested heavily on cheap scares (and after a horrid flick like MK, wouldn't you grasp for anything as well?), but you can look past that... Or maybe you can't. Some people are just people that way. Some weren't as cheap, and when they fired, they hit their mark. The dialogue was a little "Dime-store-Braveheart-ish" at times, but with a zombie every few feet and the male ego being boiled in the process, I'm pretty sure you'd try to talk as much shit as possible as well. Video gamers wil love the nods, and it makes people who haven't played the games even that more pumped to find out. This film implemented the audience knowledge as character memory base structure (discover along with the charcter) nicely. It'll probably get bashed over and over again by both people in and out of the industry, but this was a great zombie film any way you slice it. We see so few of those in this day and age.
sAm