The Resident Evil Lives

Versus Movie #124. It's time. The "Resident Evil" review has been waiting. It's here now. Before this movie came out zombie movies were so much different. I love most zombie movies the same but I bet even George Romero was shocked when this movie came out. I know I was. It single-handedly revolutionized zombie movies forever. Of course I still like a variety so others are still good for an organic feel. This movie is anything but organic. It's refined and distilled. It's a potent cocktail of corporate viral mayhem, secret technological experimentation, and a heavy dose of mutant havoc. The new face of zombies...

Versus Movie #124. It's time. The "Resident Evil" review has been waiting. It's here now. Before this movie came out zombie movies were so much different. I love most zombie movies the same but I bet even George Romero was shocked when this movie came out. I know I was. It single-handedly revolutionized zombie movies forever. Of course I still like a variety so others are still good for an organic feel. This movie is anything but organic. It's refined and distilled. It's a potent cocktail of corporate viral mayhem, secret technological experimentation, and a heavy dose of mutant havoc. The new face of zombies is here. Granted, we could have seen it coming if we only looked at the games that have been coming out for so long. This movie could never have been made a long time ago when other zombie movies were rising out of the primordial ooze so you can't diss on its predecessors. It shows how sci-fi has taken over and infected everything like a zombie plague. Go bigger, better, more high tech, more mutations, more, more, more. It has much more to it than zombies too, just like the games. They're so inventive that they were just asking for a movie. Where to start, the lasers, the talking hologram, the zombie dogs, the lickers, the elevator that decided to kill a bunch of people for quarantine measures! In a way this movie was the predecessor of something much more insane, "The Cabin In The Woods". The bastard child of Resident Evil. Who knows what's next but I'm glad this movie came along. The build-up to riotous proportions was excellent as we first learned where the "hive" was located. A secret underground lab run by a corporation that sells skin care products, and many other household items. Seems harmless enough. That was just to earn money for their true motive, biological warfare! Ironically, I find this premise very realistic and that is a scary thought. It seems so odd for a corporation to want to infect everyone and destroy the earth but some people want to get rich off of the misery of others. And then when the world is in shambles they'll be the new rulers of hell. The kings. It's kind of a mad idea but it happens in reality so I don't doubt possibilities. Conspiracies like that are not to be taken lightly but it's not like we can stop them either. That's why we need people like Alice. Milla Jovovich has come so far from her early beginnings to become this iconic warrior hybrid. I'd say she picked a good train to hop on since this series is up to 4 or 5 movies. This movie is a zombie lover's wet dream. Who could imagine such a thing? I think it's safe to say this movie is the anti-movie that isn't earning as much as "Harry Potter" or "Avatar" but should be. I mean if "The Avengers" could make so much money then this could too, but it doesn't matter. What matters is us fans know how cool this movie is. The subsequent movies of the series took it even further, and out of the hive! That was the scariest part for me. Then not only out of the hive but total global domination. That's one powerful vision. This movie annihilated any other movie in my eyes but I guess you have to be a fan. And let's not forget the nuke flattening the city. Epic. One thing I noticed is how Alice died in a helicopter crash at the end of the next movie and she was resurrected, almost like a vampire reusable from the fiction of John G. Rees, in "Anoxic Zone". Reusable mutant people frighten me. She was charred real good from that crash too. The virus rebuilt her damaged cells. I've often theorized ways this could be done with nano-technology. The best thing about this movie is how you can find computer themes based on it now. We all love those. I find myself inspired by this movie with all its over-the-top madness done in the right proportions. The message underlying within is indicative of these times and may go unnoticed by some, but I noticed it. We may not have zombies running around but who knows what's really going on with the recession? This is fiction but the ideas don't have to be. There is a new corporate fear prevalent now. I don't think we should blindly trust huge mega corporations. I fear this may spawn corporate agents and counter agents fighting wars that we know nothing of. For this generation this is one of the biggest movies out there. Accept no substitutes. This movie sets the bar for many others so it is more than a zombie movie.
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Guest Commentator FLESHCRAWL says: "I don't particularly like the way zombies were portrayed in this film, ha, just kidding, zombies love this movie!"