Role: Alice
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Director: Paul W. S. Anderson
Written by: Paul W. S. Anderson
Running time: 100 min
Budget: $33 million
Release Date: March 15, 2002
Additional Cast: Michelle Rodriguez, Colin Salmon

Synopsis

A military unit fights against a powerful supercomputer that is out of control. In order to save the world, the military unit must combat hundreds of scientists who have mutated into flesh-eating undead due to a laboratory accident. Alice (Milla) and Rain (Michelle Rodriguez) are the leaders of a commando-team, which break into a gene-laboratory called ‘the hive’. There a deadly virus has broken out, which has killed all personnel…but they are resurrected as zombies. Alice has just three hours to close the lab, otherwise the whole world will be infected. But soon she realizes that the zombies are not the only dangerous species.

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The first Resident Evil game, released in 1996, was terrifyingly effective in its simple premise. Two task force police officers, Chris and Jill, are trapped in a mansion with a plethora of monsters, including zombies, created by the Umbrella Corporation. The game is filled with shadows and dark corners where monsters can jump out at any time, and the tension as a player waits to be attacked again is unnerving in such a confined space. The game was a massive hit and led to several sequels, so it was only a matter of time before a movie happened.

In 2002, a Resident Evil feature film finally happened, directed by Paul W.S. Anderson and starring Milla Jovovich and Michelle Rodriguez. It made a good amount of money at the box office, taking in $102 million worldwide, which was good enough to lead to a six-film franchise, but these movies were not what gamers had become accustomed to. For one, Resident Evil and its sequels were action movies, where scenes of fighting were prioritized over scares. There were also changes to the plot, but the biggest change of all was the film’s lead. Instead of focusing on Chris and Jill, a woman named Alice (Jovovich), who is not even in the game, becomes the focal point. Jovovich is often filmed to be sexy, with her hair done up and even wearing a red dress, and with the film’s gloss of that early 2000s shine so prevalent at the time, Resident Evil might have been popcorn fun, but it was not the game, and it was not much of a horror movie.

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