Toronto City Hall gets nuked. Way cool. Especially to us alienated westerners.

Beyond that, um, well, one thing I never, ever, ever liked about the first film was its studio-bound claustrophobia. The second film gets outdoors more. So that's a plus.

Then again, the first film took place in brightly-lit rooms, while the second film is dark, dark, dark. And I'm not a big fan of dark movies because it's hard to take notes. So that's a minus.

The filmmakers throw in so MANY moments where loud noises jump out and grab you that, after a while, it doesn't really bother you so much any more; you come to expect these things. "SURPRISE!!!" "Oh, it's you again. Here, you left this during your last visit."

Didn't care for the desecration of that one church. (Is there a sequence in the video games that takes place in a church?) Like, okay, maybe some people wouldn't be quite so offended by the sight of a crucifix falling and crushing a monster, even if the crucifix was dislodged by a bullet from Milla Jovovich's gun. But I could have done without the scene in which Valentine (I think the character's name is...) tells the priest he's really "sick" because he's been "feeding" his zombie sister human flesh. It's a really, really brief scene, and not a major plot point by any stretch, but that just makes it seem all the more gratuitous -- of ALL the characters who had to be "sick" in this way, it's the Christian. Sigh. (I asked D if she thought this might be some subtle dig at the consumption of the body of Christ at communion, and she thought I was reading too much into this.)

Overall, I think Shaun of the Dead was easily the better zombie movie that I saw this week.

But whatever else one might say about this film, remember this, and if need be, only this: Toronto City Hall gets nuked. Way cool.

Loved the games. And let me say Milla is as much da bomb as Toronto City Hall receives.

But man...the movies could've been sooooo much better....

My review.

'Evil' rears its head yet again
"Resident Evil" will rise again. The backers of the sci-fi/horror franchise based on the apocalyptic video game said Friday they are producing "Resident Evil: Afterlife," the third installment in the series. The latest chapter centers on the heroine's battle against the diabolical Umbrella Corp. to save the human race from the Undead, a race of human clones.
Hollywood Reporter, November 6

Hmmm, so what ever happened to "Afterlife", anyway?

Not that anyone needs to care, but Resident Evil: Extinction -- which if memory serves is the only film in the series that was not screened for critics -- topped the box-office this week and had a slightly bigger opening than either of its predecessors.