Overview
The Umbrella Corporation's Vault, a secret facility located deep below Raccoon City, is sabotaged and a deadly virus is stolen. In the mansion that conceals another entrance to the Vault, Alice (Milla Jovovich) lies on the shower floor, naked except for the shower curtain. She can't remember anything but, as she dresses, she recalls memory fragments. Then, masked intruders burst through the windows. They tell Alice she is a Corporation agent living undercover in the mansion. She goes with them into the Vault to discover who sabotaged it. As they penetrate the Vault, trying to get to the Red Queen, the computer system at the heart of the facility, Alice and her confederates face many horrors--dead bodies suspended in water, blood-red flayed dogs, flesh-eating zombies, and "the Licker," a dynamically mutating monster. Basing RESIDENT EVIL on the popular video game, writer-director Paul W.S. Anderson delivers a tense, exciting science-fiction/horror film. Anderson and director of photography David Johnson shot the movie in rich silver-and-black, so that its few bursts of color are striking--like the image of the blonde Milla Jovovich in a very short crimson dress, with a trailing veil, and black boots dragging a silver axe behind her.
Awards:
Main Cast & Crew:
Paul Anderson - Director
Milla Jovovich
Michelle Rodriguez
Eric Mabius
James Purefoy
Heike Makatsch
Jamie Harding
Joseph May
Martin Crewes
Pasquale Aleardi
Colin Salmon
Details
- Format: Blu-ray
- Run Time: 104
- Color Format: Color
- UPC: 043396212275
- Genre: Science Fiction
- Rating: R (MPAA) (strong sci-fi/horror violence, language, and brief sexuality/nudity)
- Release Date: July 2002
Movie Reviews
Notes:
Theatrical Release: MARCH 15, 2002
Reviews:
"...It's a splattery futuristic zombie thriller, designed as a jolt-a-minute freakout..." - 03/15/2002 Entertainment Weekly, p.46-7
