Story Line
When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from hell, the government sends in an elite military task force to contain the outbreak.
“A secret experiment. A deadly virus. A fatal mistake.”
Top Cast
Milla Jovovich
Alice
Michelle Rodriguez
Rain Ocampo
Eric Mabius
Matt Addison
James Purefoy
Spence Parks
Martin Crewes
Chad Kaplan
Colin Salmon
James "One" Shade
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Rating
6.7/ 10
Release Date
2002-03-15
Runtime
1h 40m
Genres
HorrorActionScience Fiction
Part of the Series
Resident Evil Collection
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User Reviews (7)
Repo Jack
8/10
•11/8/2020I originally watched "Resident Evil" at a movie theater when it was first released in 2002. I hadn't played the games. There was no Rotten Tomatoes and I didn't read reviews back then so I went in blind. And I utterly enjoyed the movie: the story, th...
JPV852
6/10
•11/17/2020Been several years since I last watched this one and I guess it's passable but not very scary (I personally don't find zombies all that frightening) and the CGI creatures, while okay for its time, didn't add to the tension either. At least some of th...
Kamurai
8/10
•7/1/2021Great watch, will likely watch again, and do recommend.
I understand that zombies have been done to death by the time I wrote this, but I've always enjoyed them, and I understand that, as a movie franchise, "Resident Evil" is fairly laughed at, bu...
The Movie Mob
8/10
•8/19/2022**While not a perfect movie, Resident Evil stands above many other entries in the zombie and video game genres.**
The first of a 6-movie series, Resident Evil stays grounded in its horror roots more than the rest. This movie takes every opportunit...