When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from hell, the government sends in an elite military task force to contain the outbreak.
Resident Evil has generally received mixed reviews.
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By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 14 Mar 2002
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Resident Evil was released in 2002 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 866 reviews, giving Resident Evil (2002) an average rating of 60%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 65%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 47%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with Resident Evil than critics were.
With a score of 60%, Resident Evil is roughly the same as the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2002, which stands at 59%.
Other movies from 2002 with similar scores include films like Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones, Dark Water and The Rules of Attraction.
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