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Resident Evil is a 2002 action, horror, and science fiction film directed and written by Paul W. S. Anderson. The cast includes Michelle Rodriguez, Eric Mabius, James Purefoy, and Martin Crewes, with Jason Isaacs serving as the narrator. Marco Beltrami composed the score. The film was produced by Paul W. S. Anderson, Samuel Hadida, and Bernd Eichinger, with Constantin Film among the production companies. It is based on the Resident Evil series and is set in the United States.
The movie was filmed in Toronto and Berlin. Its countries of origin include France, the United Kingdom, and Germany. The film has a runtime of 100 minutes and was distributed by Screen Gems and Netflix. It received an R rating.
Resident Evil has a box office revenue of 102,441,078. It holds an IMDb rating of 6.6 based on 311,456 votes. The Metascore is 35, and the Rotten Tomatoes rating is 36%. The film received seven nominations.
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6.7When 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.
Cast
- Milla Jovovich as Alice
- Michelle Rodriguez as Rain
- Eric Mabius as Matt
- James Purefoy as Spence
- Martin Crewes as Kaplan
- Colin Salmon as One
Themes
- biological weapon
- quarantine
- amnesia
- undercover
- dystopia
- mutant
- hologram
- flashback
- conspiracy
- zombie
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Ratings
IMDb
6.6/10
310,457 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
36%
Metacritic
35/100
- Year
- 2002
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Genres
- Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 7 nominations total
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Country of origin
- Germany
- Original language
- English language
- Series
- Resident Evil
- Followed by
- Resident Evil: Apocalypse
- Based on
- Resident Evil
- Main subject
- epidemic
- Director
- Paul W. S. Anderson
- Screenwriter
- Paul W. S. Anderson
- Composer
- Marco Beltrami
- Producer
- Bernd Eichinger
- Production company
- Constantin Film
- Narrative location
- United States
- Filming location
- Berlin
- Duration
- 100
- FilmAffinity ID
- 469639
- Official website
- www.sonypictures.com/movies/residentevil
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- publication date
- 2002-03-21
- title
- Resident Evil
- narrator
- Jason Isaacs
- distributed by
- Netflix
- box office
- 102441078
- capital cost
- 33000000
- characters
- Alice Abernathy
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- different from
- Resident Evil
- review score
- 35/100
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Encyclopedic overview
Resident Evil is a 2002 action horror film written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson. The film stars Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Eric Mabius, James Purefoy, Martin Crewes, and Colin Salmon. It is the first installment in the Resident Evil film series, which is loosely based on the video game series of the same name. Borrowing elements from the video games Resident Evil and Resident Evil 2, the film follows amnesiac heroine Alice and a band of Umbrella Corporation commandos as they attempt to contain the outbreak of the T-virus at a secret underground facility.
German studio Constantin Film bought the rights to adapt the series in live-action in January 1997. Several writers and filmmakers, such as Alan B. McElroy, George A. Romero and Jamie Blanks, were initially hired to direct and write the film, but their scripts were rejected. In 2000, Anderson was announced as writer and director. Developed as a prequel set in the same continuity as the video game series, the film was initially titled Resident Evil: Ground Zero, but was retitled after the September 11 attacks. Cast was announced in early 2001 and principal photography commenced in March 2001 in Berlin.
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