Shifting back into movies-based-on-games mode, today’s movies are two of the more recent entries in the ever-growing list of game movies.
Movie 9: Resident Evil
Admittedly, the sequels weren’t all that great, and the story itself deviates from that of the games… but the first Resident Evil movie was pretty cool. It has everything a great popcorn movie needs… Evil corperation? Check. Psychotic sentient computer system? Check. Zombies and zombie attack dogs on the loose, out for blood, and killing people? Check, check, and check.
The movie starts out with the theft of the T-Virus from an underground Umbrella Corporation facility… and naturally things just get worse from there. The majority of the rest of the movie follows the team sent in to put a stop to the zombie’s house party as they are attacked, chased, and largely killed off the the marauding undead.
Resident Evil is is not a bastion of great acting, nor does it have especially astounding special effects. It’s a movie that’s just fun to watch… although it probably helps if you’re not an obsessive fan of the games, because it’s pretty loosely based on them. This is a movie that’s absolutely perfect for those nights when there is nothing worth watching on TV and you just want to see a bunch of minor characters killed in quick succession.
Movie 10: Hitman
Until recently, I had never played the Hitman series of games. Shooters aren’t really my preferred genre, but I snagged the box set of all three PS2 games for the low, low price of $11.99 plus shipping on eBay. I had heard good things about the games, so I figured I’d give them a try… and as it turned out, I loved every minute of them. So once I was done with the games, I decided to give the movie a shot (that was supposed to be a pun. Laugh, damn it!).
Much like the Resident Evil movie, Hitman is a movie best enjoyed if you don’t pay to much attention to the plot and just watch the expendable characters die. I’ve seen better (and I’ve also seen much, much worse) video game movies. I like Hitman, though, because, a) the action sequences are nicely done, and b) there are a lot of subtle nods to the games.
The story follows Agent 47, the hitman who never misses, as he, well… apparently misses. 47 is soon bound up in a conspiracy, on the run from Interpol, the Soviet police, and even his own employers.
Hitman, while it does follow the basic idea of the games, deviates a bit, emphasizing action and gunplay over the more stealthly action of it’s video game counterpart. At times, it works very well… sometime it get aggrivating. But my only real complaint on this is that Hitman the movie would have been much better if they’d cast Vin Diesel instead of Timothy Olyphant as Agent 47.
Movie week wraps up tomorrow. Stay tuned!.
Nikki Blight: is still trying to find that damn princess... when she's not writing fresh code for the217.com.
Comments
There are no comments yet. Be the first to comment on this post...
Add your comment
the217
Buzz Magazine
Nikki Blight
is still trying to find that damn princess... when she's not writing fresh code for the217.com.