Resident Evil is a 2002 German-British-French science fiction horror film written and directed byPaul W. S. Anderson. The film stars Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez and Colin Salmon. It is the first installment in the Resident Evil film series, which is based on the Capcom survival horror video game series Resident Evil.
Borrowing elements from the video games
Resident Evil and
Resident Evil 2, the film follows
amnesiac heroine
Alice and a band of
Umbrella Corporation commandos as they attempt to contain the outbreak of the T-virus at a secret underground facility. The film received negative reviews from critics but grossed more than $102 million worldwide.
The film opened to theaters on September 10, 2004. On a budget of $40 million, the film grossed $51 million domestically and $129 million worldwide, surpassing the box office gross of the
previous installment.
Resident Evil: Apocalypse received mostly negative reviews from critics, who praised the action sequences but criticized the plot. The film was released to
DVD on December 28, 2004.
The film was released in the United States on September 21, 2007 and was commercially successful, grossing
$147,717,833 worldwide.
[3] The film received mixed reviews from critics. It was released on
DVD and
Blu-ray in North America on January 1, 2008.
This film was initially titled
Resident Evil: Afterlife according to the leaked script.
[4] For unknown reasons, it was renamed to
Resident Evil: Extinction. The title
Afterlife was used for the
fourth installment of the series.
The film follows
Alice searching and rescuing the remaining survivors in Los Angeles after the T-virus outbreak, and teaming up against
Albert Wesker, the head of the
Umbrella Corporation.
Chris Redfield, a primary character from the video games, was featured for the first time in the film franchise. Other characters from the games and films who returned are:
Claire Redfield, Chris's sister who has lost her memory prior to the film's events;
Albert Wesker, the film's primary antagonist; and
Jill Valentine, who made a cameo appearance.
In May 2005, producers mentioned the possibility of following
Extinction with a sequel titled
Afterlife.
Extinction was released in 2007 and was a box office success prompting
Afterlife to begin development in June 2008, with the script being written by Anderson that December. Elements from the video game
Resident Evil 5 (2009) were incorporated into the film. Filming took place in
Toronto from September to December 2009 using the 3D
Fusion Camera System.
The film was released in 3D and
IMAX 3D theaters on September 10, 2010. The film grossed $60 million in the United States and Canada on an estimated $60 million budget, and made $236 million in other markets surpassing the previous film's overseas total in the second week of release. Grossing a worldwide total of $296 million,
Resident Evil: Afterlife became the highest-grossing entry of the series with the overseas total almost equaling the previous films' overseas total combined.
Resident Evil: Afterlife was released to DVD,
Blu-ray, and
Blu-ray 3D on December 28, 2010 in the United States.
Resident Evil: Retribution is a direct follow-on from the previous film
Resident Evil: Afterlife, and focuses on Alice (
Milla Jovovich) captured by the
Umbrella Corporation, forcing her to make her escape from an underwater base in the Arctic Circle, used for testing the T-virus. The film has many returning actors and characters, along with new characters from the video game not featured in the previous films. Filming took place from October to December 2011 for an international release date of September 14, 2012.
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The film was released in 2D,
3D, and
IMAX 3D[4] to a box-office success, grossing over $240 million worldwide.
Film critics criticized the film for its characters, plot, and acting while praising the 3D, visual effects, and
fight choreography. The
Blu-ray and
DVD for the film was released on December 21, 2012, and a sixth installment is planned by
Sony.
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Sequel
After commercial success at the box office, a sequel, Apocalypse, was released in 2004. This was followed in 2007 by Extinction, in 2010 byAfterlife and in 2012 by Retribution. Anderson did not direct the second and third films due to filming commitments with Alien vs. Predator andDeath Race,[40] but instead functioned as the scriptwriter and producer on both. These films were directed by Alexander Witt and Russell Mulcahy respectively, while Anderson returned to direct the fourth and fifth films in the franchise.
My Review
I have to say that this was one of the really good Zombie movies I had ever seen growing up. And well when I said I was doing a Zombie Week and that I was adding three movies to the line up of reviews. My husband was very happy that I chose these. So this one is deff great for both guys and girls. I would say that older teens would be fine watching this one. Younger kids if they can handle it. My now 10 year old has watched these for a while with no issues.
Go Into This One Knowing
Lots of fighting in this one and people dying! So keep that I'm mind that this one is so not the heart warming teen story like Warm Bodies. I would have to say that for the three movies that I put on here. It would go Warm Bodies, World War Z, then Resident Evil for the age rating.
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Resident Evil received a 33% approval rating on
Rotten Tomatoes, based on 123 reviews.
[42] Robert K. Elder from the
Chicago Tribune stated that the film "updates the zombie genre with an anti-corporate message while still scaring its audience and providing heart-pounding action",
[42]while Owen Gleiberman from
Entertainment Weekly noted that the film is as "impersonal in its relentlessness as the video-game series that inspired it."
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Both
Resident Evil and the sequel appear on
Roger Ebert's most hated films list, published in 2005.
[43] In the review of
Resident Evil, Ebert describes the film as a zombie movie set in the 21st century where "large metallic objects make crashing noises just by being looked at", and criticizes the dialogue for being a series of commands and explanations with no "small talk".
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4 comments:
I;ve seen most of these movies. I enjoyed them.
I have only seen a few of those movies... like... maybe 3? I see them when I see them but I don't look them out to watch them now.
I've seen all of these, I hated the last installment though. I really liked Mia Jovovich. I liked the movies otherwise though. Thanks for sharing.
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