Review #128: Resident Evil (2002)
This review was originally written in October 2021. October 2021 Horror Movie Review #14- Resident Evil (2002) I saw this movie back when it came out; I also saw the sequel, but I haven't seen any others, nor have I revisited the ones I have seen, until today. I remember being disappointed by this movie originally, as it didn't feel very close to the source material (I've always been a big fan of the video game series) but I'm trying to view the movies as a different beast entirely. We'll see if that continues as I go on with each entry. I think this movie does a lot of good stuff- the beginning five minutes and the ending five minutes are incredibly evocative, incredibly interesting, and I really like where they were going. Give me an amnesiac who wakes up in a spooky mansion any day, or someone who wakes up on a hospital bed and the entire world around them is destroyed! I even liked the part where the employees in the facility at the beginning were all dealing wi...