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Resident Evil (2002) Movie Review – Cinemassacre

Cinemassacre | January 28, 2026



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James reviews 2002’s Resident Evil. Based on the video game series, Milla Jovovich and Michelle Rodriguez star as the leaders of a commando team who must break into “the hive,” a vast underground genetics laboratory operated by the powerful Umbrella Corporation. There, a deadly virus has been unleashed, killing the lab’s personnel and resurrecting them as the evil Un-dead. The team has just three hours to shut down the lab’s supercomputer and close the facility before the virus threatens to overrun the Earth. The film was directed by Paul W. S. Anderson.

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  3. @CyberLance26

    January 28, 2026 at 8:52 am

    I have noticed that people often complain that blood and gore is not scary at all and that horror stuff should not use things like that to try to be scary but at the same time when horror stuff dont have blood and guts people complain that its not there.

  4. @alexwethington7764

    January 28, 2026 at 8:52 am

    I dont understand this at all but the scene with the elevator idk how but I remember seeing a scene of the girl getting her head chopped off and everyone freaking out inside the elevator, did I get Mandela effected dawg my whole life when I was a kid?

  5. @Morgan-x5q

    January 28, 2026 at 8:52 am

    @JamesNintendoNerd

    Your resident evil expert is completely wrong about the lickers being created with the G virus. They're made from zombies mutating from the T virus.

    The T virus has two strains for one that turns you into a Crimson head and the other turns those into lickers.

    Some lickers can further mutate into evolved lickers I believe.

    However regardless of T virus strain you'll start off as a zombie and its only maybe 20% that turns into a licker from there. Crimson head might be more common with its specific T virus strain.

  9. @sirdingmydong2107

    January 28, 2026 at 8:52 am

    This movie wasn't the greatest in my opinion. I think resident would be better suited as a mystery series with zombies and puzzles. Its really that easy for live action. Thats what that game was to begin with. I really hate how unfaithful every live action resident evil adaptation is

  12. @mutegrab666

    January 28, 2026 at 8:52 am

    A series of movies that were so well received by the games creators that they had a red queen A.I. that was promptly reformatted by Albert Wesker. They even went out of their way to rename the underground lab in RE 2 remake to the Nest as if erasing all potential connections to the Aderson movies.

  13. @fantasticdavidson1179

    January 28, 2026 at 8:52 am

    James friend is wrong the lickers do come from the t virus they are an advanced mutation from the zombies infected by the t virus the g virus induces more extreme unstable mutations and has the ability to reserect the dead

  15. @danielsilva-ds2u

    January 28, 2026 at 8:52 am

    Lockers were not created with the virus even in the original timeliness. Not saying the movie was awesome but hating it because you have a confidently wrong sense of lore is profounding.

  28. @the-birbot

    January 28, 2026 at 8:52 am

    4:50 the death-by-laser scene was such a popular scene in the movie that the devs of Resident Evil 4 included it in the game. After this movie was released, the game series and this movie series would muddy each other up pretty badly trying to keep up with each other, but I think it ended up killing them both, since neither seemed to want anything to do with the original three games. It was really only when the games started to get back to trying to be horror games rather than action movies that people were really getting excited about them again.

  30. @lastofmygeneration

    January 28, 2026 at 8:52 am

    I remember working opening night at my local theater when the second Resident Evil movie came out and I was pretty surprised at how many people showed up for it. The theaters were packed the whole weekend. The same happened for the third installment. As bad as the movies were, people still ate it up.

  42. @sibbke

    January 28, 2026 at 8:52 am

    I don't know why I decided to watch this. I haven't seen this movie since I was a kid and the elevator and laser scene traumatized me. It's still difficult for me to watch to this day, I always have to wince.

  44. @jasonjones7461

    January 28, 2026 at 8:52 am

    I hate that movie lol. I would rather watch edited footage from the 3ds Resident Evil Revelations gameplay, cutscenes and awesome "previously on Resident evil Revelations" recaps that show when you load your game. You could edit that into a movie that would be 10000x better than any of the actual RE movies

  46. @ThesexyMrX

    January 28, 2026 at 8:52 am

    I absolutely love the whole series. not many ppl are too crazy about it.
    you sure do notice alot of details I find trivial, nerd, but that's why I watch 😉

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