the first re have a lot go for it . nice cast . good fx . some suspense and general scare . a nice visual style . and a surprise end that set the stage for a lot of promise to build on toward make one hell of a horror flick . but a lot of people grip that re be not like the game enough . well the bad movie god heed their collective whine and have give them what they want . while the rest of u be still reel from this disaster . it really a big screen version of the now classic playstation game re 3. it take place right after the first . thing start out okay . be introduce to alice and jill and carlos and nemisis and etc . but after the opening 10 minute it be all downhill from there . for starter why give alice super power . it take away from the first movie realism and make her shallow and and a grade z matrix wannabe . the stake go from high to low . whereas the first you never know who be gon na live or die . where be the tension . the nemisis be kinda fun to watch . they get him right . but even he be sabotage by the random shot that reveal him to be an over sized stuntman in a rubber suit . a competent director would know to shoot around this . even the roger corman cheapies know how to do that on a tenth of this flick budget . where be the zombie . for the most part they be again sabotage by the director and who keep them out of focus most of the time . it like they be ashamed to say this be a horror flick . where be the freak logic here . the character do the stupid thing . there be some howl dialog here . it hard to sustain interest upon hear what come out of the cast mouth . why the hell would they bring a kid along on a rescue attempt . the action sequence resemble mtv videos from 1986. milla be okay a alice . i would watch her in a soup commercial . but she come off a really pompous here . sienna guillory and oded fehr be about the only one that come off well in re 2. mike epps and thomas kretschmann and and jared harris be waste here . the cast all come off a kind of smug in my book and and it hard to like them . the directing and scripting and and visuals all look terrible here . i do not wan na be hard on witt . but i would have go with anyone else but him . i suspect it not all his fault though . i be never part of the i hate anderson crowd . but i think the fault here lie with him and the producer . he ruin avp . now this . i think he owe me 20 buck now for pay to see the combined dreck that be avp and re2 . in the same year no doubt . re2 hold a lot of promise that have sadly be flush down the proverbial toilet . ever more cringing be the fact that a re3 be on the way .