To continue my series...
posted by swfan34 (OCEAN SPRINGS, MS) Oct 17, 2009
Member since May 2008
I have to give the other reviewer credit. He actually saw the movie.
He says it has connections to Resident Evils Code: Veronica, 2, 3, Outbreak, and Outbreak File #2. He also states that it includes game characters such as Jill Valentine, Carlos Oliviera, and Ashley Ashford.
First off, Ashley Ashford does not exist. There is an Alexia Ashford in Code: Veronica and an Ashley Graham in Resident Evil 4. I don't remember the girl's name in this movie, but she did have the last name Ashford, a reference to Code: Veronica. Anyway, those "references" include a scene completely ripped off of Code: Veronica, an enemy and setting taken from RE2 (the same setting is also in Re:Outbreak and Outbreak File #2 and RE3), and an enemy and two characters (Jill and Carlos) from RE3.
Oh, sorry, movie. Well, this movie actually aknowledges the games, at least. The same mundane main character, Alice, remains, but I won't rant about her right now. Anyway, she is also joined by a random horny African-American guy who I kinda liked for some reason, and Jill and Carlos from RE3. This is the one thing this movie does right. All of the supporting characters are great. The villains made sense, and even had motives. Jill and Carlos were almost exactly like their video game counterparts, even if all of the action and big kills went to Alice instead of the already-badass-Jill. I won't go into detail about the story, as it is the only one in the series that holds up even a little.
My biggest dissapointment about the movie, apart from the fact that the "boss" of the movie was downed by Alice in a one-on-one fight, rather than Jill as it should have been, had this movie been done by Capcom, was that there was no Chris. Jill is in it, and several STARS members are seen, and Leon Kennedy is even mentioned. I just hope Chris is in the fourth one, and that said fourth movie tries a little harder.
Anyway, I have to say that in this trilogy, this one was the only good one.
The ending sucked.
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