By the third film, the world has ended. The T-Virus has turned the planet into a desert. Las Vegas is buried in sand. Survivors drive around in armored convoys, and Umbrella is hiding in a facility in the middle of nowhere.
Here is your complete guide to the . 1. Resident Evil (2002) – The One That Started It All The Vibe: Cyberpunk horror meets The Haunting of Hill House .
A solid B+. Great atmosphere, limited CGI, and a creepy, industrial score. 2. Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) – Welcome to Raccoon City The Vibe: Dawn of the Dead meets a Michael Bay music video. Resident Evil All Movies Collection -2002-2016-...
The reverse opening—where a zombie invasion plays backwards in time. Genius cinematography.
We meet (Milla Jovovich), who wakes up in a shower with amnesia. She joins a commando team (led by the underrated Colin Salmon) and the fake-out hero Spence (James Purefoy) to contain the Red Queen—a homicidal A.I. child who has locked down the facility to prevent the T-Virus from escaping. By the third film, the world has ended
Alice has lost her powers (thanks, Umbrella), but she still flies a plane to Los Angeles. She finds a prison on Alcatraz run by a man with a weird axe-head mask—. We also get Chris Redfield (Wentworth Miller) and a giant, creepy Majini boss that looks like a monster from Cloverfield .
The editing is violent —literally. Shots rarely last longer than one second. Some fans hated the shaky-cam. Others loved the visceral chaos. Also, they kill off a major game character in the first ten minutes ( cough Wesker cough ). Survivors drive around in armored convoys, and Umbrella
Over the next 14 years and six films, we watched Milla Jovovich kick, shoot, and psychic-blast her way through hordes of the infected. Was it a faithful adaptation? No. Was it a wildly entertaining, gloriously chaotic, slow-motion gun-fest? Absolutely.
The first film is arguably the "smartest" of the bunch. Set almost entirely in —an underground genetic research facility owned by the Umbrella Corporation—the movie is lean, mean, and claustrophobic.
The laser hallway. You know the one. It turns soldiers into cubed meat and still holds up as one of the most tense sci-fi horror sequences of the 2000s.