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Mike Antonucci, San Jose Mercury News: Forgettable horror -- more gory than psychological -- with a highly satisfying quotient of Friday-night excitement and Milla power. Read more
Loren King, Boston Globe: A video game cum movie that substitutes shrieking decibel levels for a coherent plot and any resemblance to originality. Read more
John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: Even in the dubious genre of movies based on video games, Resident Evil is an abomination. Read more
Charles Savage, Miami Herald: Such a bad movie that its luckiest viewers will be seated next to one of those ignorant pinheads who talk throughout the show. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: It's completely pointless. Read more
Susan Stark, Detroit News: Read more
Gary Dowell, Dallas Morning News: Video games are more involving than this mess. Read more
Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune: On its own terms, Resident Evil updates the zombie genre with an anti-corporate message while still scaring its audience and providing heart-pounding action. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: All Ms. Jovovich, as the sanctified heroine, has to do is look radiant, grimly purposeful and mildly alarmed while forcing open doors, wielding wrenches and fleeing monsters. Read more
Melanie McFarland, Seattle Times: The best video-game-based movie so far. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: A fresh hybrid of zombie horror, high-tech sci-fi and butt-kicking thrill ride. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: A monster combat thriller as impersonal in its relentlessness as the videogame series that inspired it. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Began life as a computer game, then morphed into a movie -- a bad one, of course. Read more
John Patterson, L.A. Weekly: The interchangeable males all resemble Freddie Prinze Jr., and Anderson's direction is no less anemic, making one yearn for an Escape/Quit button that, sadly, doesn't exist in this medium. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The movie is Dawn of the Dead crossed with John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars, with zombies not as ghoulish as the first and trains not as big as the second. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: The action in Resident Evil is like watching demons from the repressed unconscious break loose and attack the ego. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: A derivative collection of horror and sci-fi cliches. Read more
Derek Adams, Time Out: Hats off, however, to the production team for the set designs and one very imaginative death-by-laser sequence. The rest is a derivative, tedious mess. Read more