Thank God I didn't buy this movie. Borrowed it from my boss (she hasn't even watched it yet) and just finished it. For something that had a bunch of near A-list stars, the writing is pretty craptastic and the story was boring as balls. And as a fan of creepy video games, this movie does no justice. Resident Evil's first movie rendition had scares in it. This one didn't.
And what is this retarded fascination with doing super slo-mo every three seconds during an action scene? If the camera work during fights and action scenes isn't shaky-cam-palooza, they seem to think this is the next best thing. Guess what? We don't like it. The fighting was all split-second attacks, mostly by people we didn't care to see fighting, and the ungodly amount of 'extras death' was pointless and horribly filmed. Even 'Alien vs. Predator' did a better job of giving the characters we didn't care about no screen time and fast deaths.
The editing could have used some work. Like when 713 comes crashing in on more than one occasion, there's absolutely no precedent for it to happen, and it seems to happen both times completely out of context with the scenes. Just, ugh.
I'm fairly convinced that Christian Slater's dialogue 75% consisted of the phrase "Come on!" spouted every ten seconds and usually in multiples. BORING.
The music for the movie was okay. Scenes that had background music playing were tolerable, except for the absolutely pointless and no lead-in whatsoever sex scene they felt obligated to throw in. I was all set and ready to give this movie a terrible review, with nothing good to say on it, when the end happened. EVIL DEAD RIP-OFF.
Then the ending credits. The only thing that doesn't make this movie worse than, say - Leviathan? - was the ending credits. They threw in a Nightwish song, 'Wish I Had an Angel' which joygasmed me, and that's the singular shining moment in this movie. A particularly American movie had Nightwish in it, and that excites me.
Other than that, Uwe Boll can die. I don't even know who he is, but he can't make movies.
Sorry, venting.
And what is this retarded fascination with doing super slo-mo every three seconds during an action scene? If the camera work during fights and action scenes isn't shaky-cam-palooza, they seem to think this is the next best thing. Guess what? We don't like it. The fighting was all split-second attacks, mostly by people we didn't care to see fighting, and the ungodly amount of 'extras death' was pointless and horribly filmed. Even 'Alien vs. Predator' did a better job of giving the characters we didn't care about no screen time and fast deaths.
The editing could have used some work. Like when 713 comes crashing in on more than one occasion, there's absolutely no precedent for it to happen, and it seems to happen both times completely out of context with the scenes. Just, ugh.
I'm fairly convinced that Christian Slater's dialogue 75% consisted of the phrase "Come on!" spouted every ten seconds and usually in multiples. BORING.
The music for the movie was okay. Scenes that had background music playing were tolerable, except for the absolutely pointless and no lead-in whatsoever sex scene they felt obligated to throw in. I was all set and ready to give this movie a terrible review, with nothing good to say on it, when the end happened. EVIL DEAD RIP-OFF.
Then the ending credits. The only thing that doesn't make this movie worse than, say - Leviathan? - was the ending credits. They threw in a Nightwish song, 'Wish I Had an Angel' which joygasmed me, and that's the singular shining moment in this movie. A particularly American movie had Nightwish in it, and that excites me.
Other than that, Uwe Boll can die. I don't even know who he is, but he can't make movies.
Sorry, venting.
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