The film combined elements of classic zombie movies, horror, 90s action sequences set to tracks written by Marilyn Manson and Slipknot, corporate thriller and sci-fi in a pulse-pounding 90 minute ride. Anderson’s own devising: an Umbrella employee once charged with defending the Hive, a secret underground lab for experimental viral weaponry, now turned against her former employers. Instead, we follow Alice (Milla Jovovich), a character of Paul W.
Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine, the heroes of the first Resident Evil game, never made it to that first film. At once, Resident Evil lovingly paid homage to the legendary video-game series on which it is based (recreating the mansion and many in-game moments shot for shot) and at the same time disregarded it in favour of pursuing an entirely different storyline.
The Resident Evil film franchise has been a paradox ever since the first film, despite an all round critical-panning, smashed it’s 102.4 million US dollars at the box office in 2002.
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