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Resident Evil

Horror. Sci-Fi. Action A special military unit fights a powerful, out-of-control supercomputer and hundreds of scientists who have mutated into flesh-eating creatures after a laboratory accident.
Media Author Review
United States
The Washington Post
"It all looks and plays like a $40 million version of a game you're more likely to enjoy on a computer"
United States
Entertainment Weekly
"A monster combat thriller as impersonal in its relentlessness as the videogame series that inspired it" 
United States
TV Guide
"Handsome and sometimes creepy, but formulaic in the extreme."
United States
The New York Times
"The movie has a frantic staccato style that is more game-oriented than cinematic"
United States
AV Club
"Too grim and humorless to even qualify as trashy fun"
United States
Austin Chronicle
"Is this the future of horror or just some bizarre fluke? Don't ask me, I'm having too much fun to care. 
United States
Boston Globe
"A video game cum movie that substitutes shrieking decibel levels for a coherent plot and any resemblance to originality"
United States
New York Post
"It's so incoherent that at first you wonder if the reels are being shown out of order"
United States
San Francisco Chronicle
"The action in 'Resident Evi' is like watching demons from the repressed unconscious break loose and attack the ego" 
Canada
The Globe and Mail
"Began life as a computer game, then morphed into a movie -- a bad one, of course."
United States
Chicago Sun-Times
"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. (...) Rating: ★ (out of 4)" 
United States
Slant
"It's great popcorn entertainment" 
United Kingdom
Empire
"Game fans will be disappointed. Zombie fans will be disappointed. Paul Anderson's fan will be disappointed."
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