Ok, back from the film.
Well, in the older RE:2 thread, I'd guessed that it was pretty much going to be an action movie.
Guessed that one right...
Man, did I miss Marilyn Manson's touch on this one. As well as Paul W.S. Anderson. I am more than a bit pissed that Anderson passed on directing RE:2 in order to make a train wreck out of Alien Vs. Predator. It woulda been soooo much better if he would've just let someone
else ruin AvP, so that he could direct RE:2.
The twit that directed RE:2 seemed to do his best to ruin the movie.
Most of the action scenes are cut so damn fast & close, that you can't make heads or tails of what's going on. Not to mention the severely excessive use fast/choppy/blurry visuals. Man, is the DVD going to be a motion artifact from hell when Sony releases it overcompressed (as you know they will). He also couldn't even rip off Commando properly (you'll recognize that scene), and towards the end a lot of the movie was looking like a lame version of Equilibrium.
And the rest of the new cast was lame for the most part. It's really too bad that Oded Fehr didn't have more screen time. Sienna Guillroy did ok most of the time. She got most of the "look bad ass" stuff down, but wasn't so hot during the rest of the film.
Overall the first RE was better. It had a better cast, director, score, sound effects, visual effects (the dogs & licker suck ass this time around), etc.
Some of the movie was good though. Mike Epps usually stole the show. And some of the action scenes were pretty cool.
Oh, and take any disbelief you've got, suspend the crap out of it, and ship it off to Antarctica. Because RE:2 has a lot of
highly stylized action. Makes John Woo's gunfights look realistic...
