Release Date: Jul 30, 2002 Region: 1 Runtime: 101 mins Studio: Columbia / TriStar Audio:
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 [CC] FRENCH: Dolby Digital 5.1
Video:
Widescreen 1.85:1 Color (Anamorphic)
Subtitles: English, French Packaging: Keep Case Rating: R Features:
Cast and Filmmakers' Commentary 5 Exclusive Featurettes Music Video: "My Plague" by Slipknot Filmographies Animated Menus Production Notes Theatrical Trailers Scene Selections
Release Date: Dec 17, 2002 Region: 1 Runtime: 100 mins Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Audio:
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 [CC] ENGLISH: DTS Stereo [CC]
Video:
Widescreen 1.85:1 Color (Anamorphic)
Subtitles: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese Packaging: Custom Case Rating: R Features:
The Superbit Collection sets a new benchmark in high resolution DVD picture and sound, creating the ultimate in home entertainment. Superbit DVDs utilize a high bit rate digital transfer process that optimizes video quality and offers both DTS and 5.1 Dolby Digital audio. All Superbit DVDs are widescreen presentations in the original language. Other languages are subtitled. Scene Selections
Release Date: Sep 7, 2004 Region: 1 Runtime: 101 mins Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Audio:
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 [CC] SPANISH: Dolby Digital Surround FRENCH: Dolby Digital 5.1 PORTUGUESE: Dolby Digital 5.1
Video:
Widescreen 1.85:1 Color (Anamorphic)
Subtitles: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese Packaging: Keep Case Rating: R Features:
Alternate Ending with Director Paul Anderson’s Video introduction Cast and Filmmakers' Commentary Visual Effects Commentary 11 Featurettes Filmographies Theatrical Trailer And much More!
Given that Resident Evil is a Paul Anderson movie based on a computer game which was itself highly derivative (especially of George A Romero and James Cameron films), it's probably unfair to complain that it hasn't got an original idea or moment in its entire running time. In the early 1980s, Italian schlock films such as Zombie Flesh Eaters and Zombie Creeping Flesh tried to cram in as many moments restaged from American originals as possible, strung together by silly characters wandering between monster attacks. This is a much-improved, edited, photographed and directed version of the same gambit.
As amnesiac Milla Jovovich remembers amazing kung fu skills and anti-globalist Eric Mabius mutters about evil corporations, a gang of clichéd soldiers with nary a distinguishing feature between them (except for Michelle Rodriguez as a secondary tough chick) are trapped in an underground scientific compound at the mercy of a tyrannical computer--which manifests as a smug little-girl-o-gram--fending off flesh-eating zombies (though gore fans will be disappointed by the film's need to stay within the limits of the 15 certificate) and CGI mutants, not to mention the ever-popular zombie dogs. It's tolerably action-packed, but zips past its borrowings (Aliens, Cube, Deep Blue Sea) without adding anything that future schlock pictures will want to imitate.
On the DVD: Resident Evil on disc has the expected trailers, both teaser and theatrical; a half-hour making-of; zombie make-up tests; featurettes on music (with Marilyn Manson), production design and costume. A lively commentary track features Anderson, Jovovich, Rodriguez and producer/zombie Jeremy Bolt--Jovovich upbraids Anderson for talking about different gradings of film stock over her nude scene and everyone else talks about how much she hurt them by punching them out during action sequences. Anderson mentions an alternate commentary track with visual effects designer Richard Yuricich, but it isn't included. --Kim Newman
Release Date: Apr 14, 2003 Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1
Video:
16:9 Wide Screen
Features:
Commentary Making Of 4 Featurettes Teaser Trailer Theatrical Trailer Easter Egg Slipknot Music Video Scene Access Interactive Menus
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