Im discarding all knowledge of the games, and talking about it as a film. Theres no suspense, theres no horror, theres terrible CGI, soundtracks are terrible, the action is stupid, never in my life have I seen a full action sequence from start to end in the most painstainkingly stupid fight in full slow motion (exectuioner). I mean, when the Executioner hit the toilets wall, the walla absorbed it and moved backwards, it was even on the great movie flaws programme on BBC 3 it was that bad.
And when you watch actual, brilliant horror films with the zombie-esque tone, just look at 28 days/weeks later, dawn of the dead both original and remake, REC.... They dont use gimicky bullet time, pathetic amounts of poorly done CGI or this eye candy you say, because its hardly eye candy, its just the stupid modern warfare generation who love lots of bullets flying and no substance. But hey, if thats what floats peoples boats in films then I hope they enjoy them.
And merchandise doesnt make a film. So what if a figure is made which is accurate to a character? Doesnt mean that the actor who is the character cant act, or the film theyre from is just terrible. Degeneration was boring as hell. it was nice having the proper voice actors back, but in general, is was a boring film.
Nobody, well myself, I havn't asked for a carbon copy of the games. I mean, Apocalypse couldv'e been awsome. When Carlos, Nicholai and the wounded soldier were fighting through the streets, that was awsome. it wouldve been ace to have a film purely about escaping in that scenario, the characters are in the streets, hunted by nemesis, zombies, lickers, cerberus, streets are blocked so they have to use alleys which are narrow, limited ammunition, the dead round every corner, the struggle to survive.
instead, it was this dull character doing flips in slow-mo on a motorcycle, boxing with Nemesis. you gotta admit, they murder nemesis to hell. It could've been something really powerful to not only have it as mat, but have as near invincible killing machine, the humanity gone and they have to kill it. Not in a boxing fight. it was just too cheesy. Worse than Romero's current films. Id rather watch diary of the dead than RE2/3/4/5.
The first one, they did quite well. Loved the Umbrella team, but they killed too many too soon in the laser room personally.
And Marilyn mansons Seizure of Power, red queen and cleansing were brilliant in their respective scenes.
I liked it because you felt that any of them could die at any moment. The films immediatly went rubbish when they made Alice infected so zombies dont go near her, but she doesnt mutate, then shes a ninja clone. They took the vulnerability from the character. Alice in RE1 was vulnerable, they knew how to handle themselves, but they were succeptable to death, you didnt know who would die next. Now you know everyone will die except alice because she super-invincible and ruins the film.
). If I want to watch an actually good film, I’ll go watch Bicycle Thieves, There Will Be Blood, or Apocalypse Now. If you don’t like the RE movies, don’t watch them and just try to ignore the people that do.
