Resident Evil

Washington Post by

In the end, it all looks and plays like a $40 million version of a game you're more likely to enjoy on a computer.

Baltimore Sun by Chris Kaltenbach

About as good as the genre gets.

TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

Handsome and sometimes creepy, but formulaic in the extreme.

Austin Chronicle by Marc Savlov

Is this the future of horror or just some bizarre fluke? Don't ask me, I'm having too much fun to care.

USA Today by Mike Clark

Evil's one strong presence is lead Milla Jovovich -- and not because the script gives her supercop/soldier anything interesting to say.

Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman

A splattery futuristic zombie thriller, designed as a jolt-a-minute freakout for young audiences who were numbed into submission long ago.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Rick Groen

While computer games can boast an abundance of nifty graphics and odious villains and plucky protagonists on long journeys, they're invariably a tad wanting in the cinematic essentials -- you know, stuff like plot and characterization and theme.

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

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. The movie does however have Milla Jovovich and Michelle Rodriguez.

Salon by Stephanie Zacharek

Mildly grisly, assaultively noisy and tremendously boring.

The New York Times by Stephen Holden

The movie has a frantic staccato style that is more game-oriented than cinematic.