It’s been a slow time for movies. I missed AvP but am not particularly sorry. I don’t think I could sit through Hero; and better flicks like Napolean Dynamite and Bright Young Things might as well not exist here in my cultural wasteland. So I’m jonesin’ for a flick and along comes the Resident Evil sequel. That will work to burn eight bucks and an evening out. Plus, the review writes itself:
Imagine the Thriller video with chain guns involved.
I’ve read they changed directors from the first to the second and it shows. The first flick built up a sense of dread and only alluded to the most gruesome bits. This film lets it all hang out and takes whatever sort of horror tension the first had and disposes of it in favor of an old school Schwarzenegger type shoot-em-up.
Still, it was 90 minutes of Milla Jovovich killing the dead and the other heroine has the best comic book body I’ve ever seen on film so it wasn’t a wasted eight bucks.