| | | A secret experiment. A deadly virus. A fatal mistake.
Features: DVD, Deluxe Edition, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), English, French, Portuguese, Spanish Subtitled
Something rotten is brewing beneath the industrial mecca known as Raccoon City. Unknown to its millions of residents, a huge underground bioengineering facility known as The Hive has accidentally unleashed the deadly and mutating T-virus, killing all of its employees. To contain the leak, the governing supercomputer Red Queen has sealed all entrances and exits. Now a team of highly-trained super commandos including Rain (Michelle Rodriguez, The Fast and the Furious, Girlfight ), Alice (Milla Jovovich, The Fifth Element ) and Matt (Eric Mabius, Cruel Intentions) must race to penetrate The Hive in order to isolate the T-virus before it overwhelms humanity. To do so, they must get past the Red Queen's deadly defenses, face the flesh-eating undead employees, fight killer mutant dogs and battle The Licker, a genetically mutated savage beast whose strength increases with each of its slain victims.
"...a ditsy and dizzying spook-house thriller in high-tech, high-hemline gear." Jan Stuart, Los Angeles Times
"Jovovich kicks butt like a champ and Rodriguez radiates...bad-ass attitude..." Joe Leydon, San Francisco Examiner
"...occupies a zone where science fiction and nightmares collide and intertwine." Mick La Salle, San Francisco Chronicle
"...heart-pounding action." Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune
Editor's Note
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.
| Features | Alternate Ending With Director Paul Anderson's Video Introduction | | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound; French, Portuguese, Spanish Stereo | | Digitally Mastered Audio & Anamorphic Video | | Interactive Menus | | Mastered In High Definition | | Music Video "My Plague" By Slipknot | | Production Notes | | Scene Selections | | Theatrical Trailers | | Widescreen Version | | 5 Filmographies | | Remastered in High Definition | | Set Design Featurette | | Storyboarding Resident Evil Featurette | | 6 Exclusive Featurettes: The Creature, The Elevator, The Laker, The Train, Zombie Dogs and Zombies | | Costumes Featurette | | Featurette: Playing Dead: Resident Evil From Game to Screen | | Scoring Resident Evil | | Clip Compilation: Resident Evil: Apocalypse | | Cast & Filmmakers' Commentary | | Visual Effects Commentary | | Widescreen Presentation | | Subtitles: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish | | Alternate Ending with director Paul Anderson's video introduction. Exclusive to Deluxe Edition! |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | Resident Evil - DVD Review By: Annette Cardwell - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 8/24/2007 8:31 PM | |
The best part of playing the Resident Evil video games was the suspense – moving through the shadowy hallways, twitchy in the knowledge that at any moment a zombie (human or otherwise) would leap out to chomp on your neck or leg. And better yet, you’d have your trusty shotgun in hand to blow that dirty ghoulie out of your path. But while the Resident Evil games may have set new standards for thrills, suspense, and gore for video games, the movie really only succeeds in the third of these. Instead of creating real tension, it barrages you with false suspense and really loud, fast-paced techno metal (score by Marilyn Manson) to give the sense you should be scared. And when all else fails, gross the audience out....read the full review |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Columbia Tri-Star |
| Release Date: 6/23/2009 |
| Running Time: 100 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2002 | | Catalog ID: 01534 | | UPC: 00043396015340 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | Entertainment Weekly
"...It's a splattery futuristic zombie thriller, designed as a jolt-a-minute freakout..." 03/15/2002 p.46-7 |
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