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NUMBERS
Box Office: $39,532,308
VHS Rentals: $5,860,000
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CONSENSUS
Like other video game adapations, Resident Evil is loud, violent, formulaic, and cheesy.
CAST & CREW
Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Eric Mabius
Directed by Paul Anderson
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SYNOPSIS
A secret experiment…a deadly virus…a fatal mistake. Based on the wildly popular video game series, Resident Evil is an action-packed thriller starring Milla Jovovich (The Fifth Element), Michelle Rodriguez (The Fast and the Furious) and Eric Mabius (Cruel Intentions) in a battle of good and evil, human versus computer, the living against the Undead. more...
MPAA RATING
R, strong sci-fi/horror violence, language, and brief sexuality/nudity
RUNTIME
1 hour, 40 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Mar 15, 2002
Video: Dec 17, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Columbia Pictures
GENRE
Action/Adventure, Horror/Suspense, Science-Fiction/Fantasy, Action, Sci-Fi/Horror/Fantasy
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Resident Evil Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
POSTERS
TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
TIDBITS
PRODUCTION NOTES
NEWS ARTICLES
LINKS
SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
SUBMIT USER REVIEW
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 "Its characters are thinner than cardboard -- or even comic-book paper."
-- Joe Baltake, SACRAMENTO BEE
"It's been 13 months and 295 preview screenings since I last walked out on a movie, but Resident Evil really earned my indignant, preemptive departure."
-- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE
"What will, most likely, turn out to be the most repellent movie of 2002."
-- Jay Boyar, ORLANDO SENTINEL
"While the Resident Evil games may have set new standards for thrills, suspense, and gore for video games, the movie really only succeeds in the third of these."
-- Annette Cardwell, FILMCRITIC.COM
"just not campy enough"
-- Carlo Cavagna, ABOUTFILM.COM
"Certainly not a good movie, but it wasn't horrible either."
-- Jeffrey Chen, WINDOW TO THE MOVIES
 "...stands up with the best of the modern B monster movies."
-- Robin Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"Devolves into the derivative, leaning on badly-rendered CGI effects."
-- Tim Cogshell, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
"The inherent limitations of using a video game as the source material movie are once again made all too clear in this schlocky horror/action hybrid."
-- Michael Dequina, MR. BROWN'S MOVIES
"A by-the-numbers effort that won't do much to enhance the franchise."
-- Daniel Eagan, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
"One thing’s for sure—if George Romero had directed this movie, it wouldn’t have taken the protagonists a full hour to determine that in order to kill a zombie you must shoot it in the head."
-- Bryant Frazer, BRYANT FRAZER'S DEEP FOCUS
"Resident Evil may be brain dead but it's great popcorn entertainment nonetheless."
-- Ed Gonzalez, SLANT MAGAZINE
"Don't expect Aliens but don't resign yourself to Ghosts of
Mars either."
-- Harry Guerin, RTE INTERACTIVE (DUBLIN, IRELAND)
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"I firmly believe that a good video game movie is going to show up soon. I also believe that Resident Evil is not it."
-- Shay Casey, DAILY-REVIEWS
"Resident Evil isn't a product of its cinematic predecessors so much as an MTV, sugar hysteria, and PlayStation cocktail."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
"Resident Evil is what comes from taking John Carpenter’s Ghosts of Mars and eliminating the beheadings. In other words, about as bad a film you’re likely to see all year."
-- Erik Childress, EFILMCRITIC.COM
"a thoroughly unoriginal, but fast-paced and entertaining genre B-flick"
-- Laura Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"...nothing scary here except for some awful acting and lame special effects."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
"A zombie movie in every sense of the word--mindless, lifeless, meandering, loud, painful, obnoxious."
-- Mark Dujsik, MARK REVIEWS MOVIES
"It wouldn't be my preferred way of spending 100 minutes or $7.00."
-- Michael Elliott, MOVIE PARABLES
"What saves it ... and makes it one of the better video-game-based flicks, is that the film acknowledges upfront that the plot makes no sense, such that the lack of linearity is the point of emotional and moral departure for protagonist Alice."
-- Cynthia Fuchs, POPMATTERS
"I'll bet the video game is a lot more fun than the film."
-- David Grove, FILM THREAT
"It works well enough, since the thrills pop up frequently, and the dispatching of the cast is as often imaginative as it is gory."
-- Jeremy Heilman, MOVIEMARTYR.COM
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ROTTEN 25%
Avg. Rating: 4.3/10 |
"Forgettable horror -- more gory than psychological -- with a highly satisfying quotient of Friday-night excitement and Milla power."
-- Mike Antonucci, SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
"An already thin story boils down to surviving invaders seeking an existent anti-virus. If only there were one for this kind of movie."
-- Mike Clark, USA TODAY
"Video games are more involving than this mess."
-- Gary Dowell, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"The movie is Dawn of the Dead crossed with John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars, with zombies not as ghoulish as the first and trains not as big as the second."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"A monster combat thriller as impersonal in its relentlessness as the videogame series that inspired it."
-- Owen Gleiberman, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"Began life as a computer game, then morphed into a movie -- a bad one, of course."
-- Rick Groen, GLOBE AND MAIL
"It all looks and plays like a $40 million version of a game you're more likely to enjoy on a computer."
-- Richard Harrington, WASHINGTON POST
"All Ms. Jovovich, as the sanctified heroine, has to do is look radiant, grimly purposeful and mildly alarmed while forcing open doors, wielding wrenches and fleeing monsters."
-- Stephen Holden, NEW YORK TIMES
"A derivative collection of horror and sci-fi cliches."
-- Peter Howell, TORONTO STAR
"A generic bloodbath that often becomes laughably unbearable when it isn't merely offensive."
-- David Hunter, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
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"An energetic, violent movie with a momentum that never lets up."
-- Chris Hewitt, ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS
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* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "Resident Evil" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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