Such a frustrating disappointment

Let's be realistic.

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

The film seems like it had promise. It started out OK, even though everyone in the movie, including soldiers, are stupid enough to just stand there and look at the zombies until they get attacked by them. The villain had an interesting back story and seemed like he might have depth, but then he just gets comical towards the end. Near the end everything just gets even more silly, to the point of insulting your intelligence - even for a zombie movie! The heroes never run out of bullets and can get knocked across the room without as much as a limp. It's predictable and uninteresting. I was hoping the animated films might make up for the live action ones going downhill, but I've basically lost faith in this whole game franchise when it comes to films now.

The hubby and I watched this the other night and it was amazing. It hearkens back to the old school Resident Evil games, where you were shooting zombies and maybe a few crazy mutants. The best thing to compare it to is one long, action packed cut scene. Things I wasn't thrilled with: Actually there wasn't much that bothered me except the character design for Chris and Leon. Leon looked like a douchie pretty boy, while Chris was a 'roided army man. Of course as DK reminded me, Chris did punch a rock to death (RE5) so I guess he needed to be a bit 'roided for that. My one other issue was with Rebecca, she'd gone through the whole zombie thing before and was a member of S.T.A.R.S with that training under her belt. So why did she freak out so much when the zombies started coming after her? I mean she's dealt with these things before. Things I liked: The graphics were so good that at times it looked real. The story was like the plot to one of the games. I liked the Chris and Leon team up, I also liked that they brought back Rebecca. The game and previous movie references were a great little treat for any Resident Evil fan. Lots of action, blood and gore, just what you'd expect from this franchise. Conclusion: I feel this is a must see for any old school Resident Evil fans. If you liked the earlier Resident Evil games then I think you'll really enjoy this movie.

I really liked this movie, I'd say it's the second best out of the three animated RE films (Damnation is by far the best, Degeneration's animation made everyone look like they've had Botox).It has some really good points - the animation is amazing, facial expressions were superb although they haven't quite mastered men smiling yet without them looking a bit uncanny valley. Rebecca is a super-smart pixie, Chris is slowly turning into the hulk and is about a foot taller than Leon for some reason, and Leon has dyed his hair again and is continuing his transformation into a depressed alcoholic.There isn't much character development, which is a shame for the first one of the CGI films where Chris and Leon work together. There are some daft fight scenes too, Leon can apparently do some Neo-level moves on his bike (he also gets quite a lot of people killed in the background during that scene and doesn't seem to care).Luckily it all looks amazing and happily it continues the Resident Evil tradition of Leon not being able to get into a vehicle of any kind without crashing it. I don't agree with some of the other reviewers being surprised that Chris and Leon can go up against about twenty zombies and not get bitten or even scratched - they're both orbiting forty in this film so they've been at it for twenty years.Some of the science does get a little confusing and the plot is basically the beginning of London Has Fallen with zombies. New York seems like a pretty boring setting for the film as well after all the interesting countries and crazy labs they've been to before. I still enjoyed watching it, though, and I hope they make more with these characters where they get a little more development and a little less superpowers.

Visually this movie is great. Good facial expressions and decent "gun- fu" scenes. But the story is totally boring. Yeah, it's good to see Leon, Chris and Rebecca again, but the plot is totally predictable. No meaningful suspense and the explanations are too shallow. But again, as a RE game fans, if you ask me, which one would you prefer to watch, this movie or those RE live actions, I won't hesitate to pick this movie. At least the lore is still original.