Amazing, that the "Resident Evil" franchise, based on the long-running Capcom video game series, has reached a third entry and is still garnering theatrical distribution. Sure, the first two movies, 2002's "Resident Evil" and 2004's "Resident Evil: Apocalypse," were financially successful, but was anyone actually a fan of them? Both pictures, haphazardly chaotic, loud and mindless while throwing out all opportunities for generating anything approaching genuine suspense or frights, represented why the horror genre sometimes gets a bad rap. Even as far as old-fashioned zombie flicks go, they were embarrassing tripe that succeeded only at rendering the undead as bores with poor skills when it came to jumping out of the darkness and scaring their one-dimensional prey. Would screenwriter Paul W.S. Anderson (2004's "Alien Vs. Predator") and new-to-the-fold director Russell Mulcahy take the interceding three years between films to correct all of their wrongs and finally present a respectable "Resident Evil" movie that would do the creepy video games justice? As it turns out, yes and no.
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