If you can manage to shut off your brain, you might allow yourself to get caught up in its claustrophobic action, which has sufficient production value to keep your mind off of the ludicrous storyline.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 8, 2024

Zombie movies of course allow for a certain degree of poor acting – and that certainly is the case here.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 4, 2022

Here is the truth of it: film critics, generally speaking, are rather too hard on poor Paul W.S. Anderson. At his best, he is a marvellous purveyor of slickly engineered B-grade entertainment.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 26, 2021

The first zombie doesn't make an appearance until 40 minutes in.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Nov 9, 2020

...video game-inspired action schlock.

| Feb 28, 2020

Resident Evil isn't bad. It's firmly "okay", it's a cheesy survival horror story with cliché characters that knows it's a cheesy survival horror story with cliché characters.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 27, 2019

It is not a disappointing turnout for a video game film, but one does see how it could have been better. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 3, 2019

Resident Evil is what it wants to be. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 3, 2019

A single-minded tale of genetic research facility workers accidentally turned into ravenous zombies, it's a relentless throat-grabber.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 30, 2019

A merely acceptable adaptation that feels more like a supernatural thriller with a couple of references to the game, involuntarily funny dialogue, and decent performances, than a terrifying production. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 5, 2016

This routine video-game spinoff borrows heavily from James Cameron action flicks and George Romero zombie epics but doesn't do much else.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 8, 2014

This adaptation captures the spirit of the video games and with its fun, anything can happen mindset and tons of over the top violence, 'Resident Evil' proves there may be a future for video game movies yet.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 11, 2012

An ultra-gory video game-to-movie disappointment.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 28, 2010

The overblown action and cheapo effects become as relentless as the undead.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 9, 2010

A Z grade bit of fodder for the pre-teen sector...

| Apr 29, 2009

Despite a promising setup, pic never really goes anywhere, instead immersing viewers in a kinetic onslaught of flesh (namely, that of Milla Jovovich) and flesh-eaters (most of the rest of the cast).

| Mar 31, 2009

This video-game-to-celluloid adaptation has a clammy, nightmarish glaze and tightly coiled sense of tension.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Entertainment in dire need of its own self-assurance.

| Original Score: C | Oct 11, 2007

Hats off, however, to the production team for the set designs and one very imaginative death-by-laser sequence. The rest is a derivative, tedious mess.

| Jun 24, 2006

here are times when RESIDENT EVIL looks unfinished or below its potential

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jul 13, 2005