Resident Evil Review - Off The Shelf Reviews 

The coolest character who died to a laser net was also the coolest character in Alien vs Predator and died to a net gun LOL

You guys are a hidden gem right now. Hopefully people share these more.

The soundtrack of this film is always good

Marylin Manson made the music and it was Top notch.

Slipknot's "Plague" at the end was great, but Killswitch Engage's track at the end of RE: Apocalypse was pure genius.

Marilyn Mansons score for this film is amazing!.

Red Queen: "Your all going to die down here. " Me: JUST LIKE THE MOVIE FRANCHISE!

Why didn’t they back up against the door of the laser hallway? There is a few feet where the laser doesn’t reach and they would have only had to lose the medic, since she had no reflexes. The rest would have been fine against the door.

The only watchable Resident Evil movie

Paul W.S Anderson actually made this into his own story of the cube and not so much resident evil.

43:02 The cast watched RU-vid Let's Plays... in 2002?

Milla Jovovich in the Resident Evil movies is about as emotional as a can of bug spray.

I totally cracked up laughing at 46:04 with Ian saying: "I don't recommend Resident Evil, only as a guilty pleasure for myself. Every now and again I may watch it. I don't know why. It's the same reason why I watch Dune and Silent Hill ... and not Tekken 2, no definitely not Tekken 2" - Lynch's Dune is my favourite film ever and Silent Hill is in my Top 10. Resident Evil (yes, this one) is in my TOP 20. I guess I only have guilty pleasures (no NOT Tekken 2, I am with you on that! But Tekken: Blood Vengeance is a whole different story!).

You guys are fuckin addictive. Thank you. You make it look easy, and it's not. Simple, but awesome, like, homemade cookies fresh from the oven.

Man, im so tired but i gotta watch this new review lol such is the struggle of being an American Off the Shelf fan

Nice Slipknot reference at the start there ;)

16:48. Sunglasses spikey blonde hair. .... JOHNNY BRAVO!

You cracked the code, Iain : this movie was a giant publicity stunt to sell shoes XD

As far as it deviated from the game, this first movie was by far the best in the series. They just got more and more convoluted as they went on. Only the Resident Evil CGI movies are awesome.

Seriously lads...well done on this one and cheers to iain for the slipknot intro, Oh boy where do we start on this one?...i literally have no words at all.

This movie in particular, and the film franchise in general, is perfect "On in the background while you fold laundry" material.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE REVIEW THE REST OF THIS SERIES PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

Damn dude, these missions just keep getting better & serious as they go on. Also the dynamic between Pete & MJ is getting really interesting as of now. Can't wait to see the next episode man, keep up the good work.

Upload on a Tuesday? Almost missed this because I didn’t expect it.

when it comes to having good competent soldiers and mercs you can never count on umbrella

Nice work on the _Nike_ cutaway, guys!

In the games, the infection doesn't get automatically spread by bites.

I want Steven seagall to be in the next one. He just waddles up to a tyrant and waves his arms around and immediately wins. The tyrant explodes like a hand grenade and seagall sits down to eat a slice of pizza.

The hive town. The intrance had been part of a renovated subway station in East Berlin short after the Wall came down.

I never realized the cast of the Resident Evil movie were a brunch of time travelers. It must've been a real treat to watch RU-vid videos when the platform didn't even exist yet.

I can see why people don't like these films but i love them , have since the first one , i was honestly blown away when i watched in the, theater, at the time it was one of the films that re ignited the zombie genre , probably the first one in a long time when it was released to feature the puss buckets in a mainstream film ( i could be getting the timing wrong but 28 Days Later came out later that same year to further cement the genre as popular and viable at the box office in modern times ) , and the genre just took off from there , all because of this adaption of the RE games . Def see these films as more than simple zombie films, the undead are not the main antagonist, it's the Umbrella corporation and although the continuity is all over the place with the successive films i still enjoy the common thread of this mysterious and powerful company wreaking havoc on everything even as the world burning . Anyway, this is one of my fave horror sci fi franchises , they are always entertaining, i stopped comparing them to the games early in the series and just enjoyed them for the silly bit of immensely entertaining trifle that they are . They always featured great action sequences, awesome music, cool characters, excellent visuals , i just can't help but like these films , they are like cinematic junk food , and i mean that as a huge compliment . Afterlife is my favorite, that film is amazing and it's terrific in 3d Yeah and the series is getting rebooted , it will most likely follow more closely to the mood and style of the games , can't wait for that but i'm more than happy with these adaptations . ps - i'd like to know how the cast of this film watched Let's Plays of the games to prepare for their roles, YT wasn't a thing until around mid 2005 :D

Sweet! I thought my eyes were deceiving me at first.

Feel that you all sometimes nitpick some movies more than others... never really have much of a problem with his flick... compared to the last few, they actually put effort into it...

I use to watch this movie as a teen and try to connect it to the games. Why did I... why. Fucking hell these movies are just, brutal. Good luck guys.

Almost 10k subs! Well deserved and that's usually the point when channels start to get more and more popularity.

A Resident Evil movie would definitely work if it’s shot like a proper horror movie with intense atmosphere and even sans any main character from the games. It would only need some really neat monsters and some nice blood and gore to go with the psychological horror.

YASSSS!!!!! Oh I so hope this is the start of a series! Is Resident Evil gonna be the Hellraiser of 2017 for Shelfers??

I liked the movie and the series as a whole. But keep in mind I've never played Resident Evil. I know everyone who saw the movie who was a gamer hated it, but lots of us non-gamers who saw the film love this franchise. Yes there are some plot holes in all the movies, but overall the movies were so well crafted in building non-stop tension that it kept me glued to the screen.

What do you guys think of the CGI animation Resident Evil/Biohazard movies? Yay or nay?

Okay. I do want to point out the reason for the train to dock under the mansion is because it's said it's an EMERGENCY Entrance to the hive. Also remember this is suppose to be a prequel. Come on guys...

This movie was better then any of the other Resident Evil films by Paul

*turn up*

The best RE movies are: Resident Evil Resident Evil 2 Resident Evil 4 And that's it.

FUCK YES!!!! I was wondering when you two were to review the Anderson RE movie series.

PAUL WS ANDERSON wasn't allowed to use RESIDENT EVIL characters BECAUSE the parent company had already made an EXCLUSIVE JAPANESE RESIDENT EVIL movie with those characters but it was NEVER INTERNATIONALLY RELEASED

Very nice review series of these films. I suffered through them again recently, but your reviews made it less painful.

funny thing is if the captain had backed up to the door like a normal persons reaction would be he would have survived because the lasers deactivate before they reach the door

One good thing about this movie is the audio commentary...

14:00 hahaha there was CLEARLY room to move beyond the lasers at both ends of that corridor, but no they stood between the laser walls...

I saw it in the theaters and only untill you pointed it out i forgot of how stupid it is in the story where the hero types go through streams of possible contaminated sprays of water.

And then there's 6 dogs. Someone missed that 7th dog in the far right lol

They clearly drew from Dawn of the Dead for the zombies and Cube for the laser grid. It was a fun movie.

People thought this movie was bad back in 2002. If only...

Notice when JD runs to the door, a zombie behind falls down without getting shot. It's the funniest moment in the movie for me. It's so fucking stupid

I was so disapointed when i saw this film the first time, im such a fan of the original games and they messed up

"Fuck this film" - Gary 🤣 Yup.

Germany: Uve Boll isn't doing so great, lets see what this Anderson guy has to offer? GD, Germany, have you learned nothing about war crimes?

Could it be? Resident evil movie reviews and silent hill game reviews for the month of October leading up to Halloween?! I hope!

The first film was a masterpiece the rest are okay I don't have complaints about the rest of the films

Awesome! I would love if you both finished off the terminated Terminator franchise!!

Hoo boy... You guys will have no sanity by the end of these godawful adaptations.

9:00 that actor totally looks like Max Paine in every movie ahahaha!

Did you say they watched RU-vid let’s plays? Back in 2001-2002? Years before RU-vid was created.

I didn't *mind* this first one... but what a shitty movie franchise. Not faithful to the games at all other that ripping off a few scenes and characters in later sequels. I actually gave up around part 4 of the films lol

It's gonna be a good October :D

I went to see this film on opening night and was moved to walk out less than halfway through. Feeble beyond belief.

Yknow, everyone loves to bash on the CGI of the movie. But it's kind of ironic that they even mentioned the middling graphics of the time RE2 was released, but then rag on the CGI of the time of the movie. I personally never had any issue with the actual CGI effects of the movie. What disappointed me was the overall scenes. Honestly I'm not sure they could've done it much better at the time given their budget and advancement of visual effects.

Here I am watching this series of reviews for the 5. time (at least, stopped counting).

In my opinion, the umbrealla team should have been fully prepared for the infection. After successfully containing the virus, they try to leave realizing they’re stuck as well, and must find a way to break out, allowing the virus to spread. It wouldn’t have fixed all the issues with this movie, but would have highlighted the coldness of the company while also not insulting the audience’s intelligence.

Having never been much of a video game player, I came to this flick without any expectations; I just knew it was going to be slick scifi/horror, and it was completely entertaining stuff overall. But it is understandable that this film could be disappointing to fans of the games because you obviously go in with certain preconceived notions and with hopes of seeing particular elements ... but looking at "Resident Evil" as I did solely as a thriller, it is a fun ride. Not excellent, but enjoyable. I feel similarly about another film based on games: the 2006 "Silent Hill" movie, although that won me over strictly with its visuals-- the rendering of that decrepit town was magnificently done, with so many fantastic details. In that film we had brilliant production design (along with some great ghastly creatures). The story and characters, on the other hand ... not so great.

the actors are amazing if they watched resident evil lets plays on youtube in 2000-2001!

I never played the games, so it was better than they think! They were there because this is where the team went in and likely the team will come out!

These films are pretty much on par with the tekken movies

I never played any of the games before so I had zero frame of reference for it, but I can understand why the fans were appalled by the movie franchise. The main characters also feel a bit two dimensional and the Slipknot soundtrack feels kinda dated too. However I still liked this movie for what it is: a cheesy, over the top, turn off your brain and break out the beers, comic book style action movie with plenty of fun moments. Its probably one of my favorite movies to watch around Halloween next to "Dead Heat" and "From Dusk till Dawn".

wait...what? checking calendar... getting confused... not that this is a bad thing, but guys, i still remember how your sanity went down when you did the hellraiser series...this one is worse :x

RU-vid didn't come out until 2005

A watchable movie. I suppose. This will go like the Hellraiser movie reviews.

Are you guys slipknot fans? Kick ass if so and keep up the good work.

When I first saw the poster for a Resi Evil film.. I was ecstatic.. at the time I was still blasting my way through RE2 & 3 on my PS1 because damm them games still top bollk in my books.. yes it had cheesy lines but it still rocked , so I went to the cinema with my nephew who i gave nightmares because of the amount of hrs we smashed on RE2 at like 3am haha, 20yrs on and he still don't really forgive me for.. but anyway we both walked out at the end and our reaction was like....... Wtaf did I just pay to see... Take away the RE name tag and yes it's not a bad zombie film.... But to give it the RE name in my opinion is just criminal.... there's no Chris, Jill, Barry or Wesker ffs and W.S.Anderson should have played the game more or got capcom involved and just stuck to the mansion with the zombies, dogs, Hunters, maybe the shark and killer plants oww & of course the tyrent that's a boss. Not a glorified Licker ffs 🤨 Don't get me started when the next film came out because dammm. I almost lost my $hit.. but I'll save my comments for that commentary from you guys haha...

Great review as usual but I laughed my ass off when Ian said this movie made it possible that Resident Evil 4 was made and got popular. Resident Evil games started to go downhill after Resident Evil 5. Before that, we had Resident Evil Code Veronica with a great story and you had already freaking matrix-like action sequences. Then we had the best Resident Evil game, Resident Evil Remake on Gamecube. Shinji Mikami the father of Resident Evil series then made the great Resident Evil 4. The gameplay alone was revolutionary and created a standard for all the successful 3rd person action-oriented games. Without RE 4 we would not have had Gears of War or Mass Effect. So NO Mr. Buckingham RE 4 was a masterpiece and it wasn't thanks to this garbage movie. 46:37 The reaction of Gary sums up the feelings of most of the fans.

Looking forward to your review of the whole series guys the hellraiser one was brilliant 🤜🏻

Review The Guyver and it's sequel.

This and Extinction Were Good!

I use luv this movie as ah kid grew up on DVD n this 1 I use watch n then ply re2 on 64 good times

True on the Alice and wonderland references in this movie.

Love this movie. This one and Apocalypse ate pretty cool. Then it gets worse with every sequel

Stumbled on this channel accidentally , got yourselves a sub , most of your reviews are more entertaining than the movies, favourite so far (mostly coz it made me cry laughing) is curse of the queerwolf

Tbh RE 1 and 2 were pretty decent adaptations in my opinion.

This was a pretty good movie. Saw it in the cinema.

I have never played the games but I can feel your Pain. 😂

This first one almost, almost works as a prequel to the first game, if the games had taken place in the 2000s and not the 1990s that is, because you could come up with ways to connect it to sequels based on the actual games. But that was before the actual sequel to this one came out, which destroyed any chances of salvaging the live-action adaptations as being more faithful to the games. If you're judging these film adaptations as being based on the games, then I think this first one is the best in that regard. But that's not saying much because it isn't really fitting of the Resident Evil name. So it doesn't live up to the games as an overall piece. If you're judging these films as action horror films, regardless of the fact it's called Resident Evil, then I feel that Resident Evil: Extinction is the best out of them all in that respect. But overall, all of these films don't live up to the name Resident Evil. So I am very much looking forward to the possibility that the reboot film series announced a couple of months or so back will be more faithful, and actually be horror suspense more than horror action. And the ending shot of the film set up great potential but alas, that didn't end up being the case.

Will you guys be doing the other Resident Evil movies

I’ve noticed that if he had just backed up a few more feet he would of lived. Watch it again.

Saw this flick at the theatre upon release. Silly, good fun, no brainer but wouldn't call it a masterpiece. Knew of the videogame but never played it so went in blind and enjoyable but wouldn't watch it on dvd every year

My favorite character in this was Matt kinda thought he reminded me of Chris Redfield

I think people are too harsh on the RE movies. Yes they could have been more faithful to the source material. I'm not a screen writer so I have no idea how hard it would be to adapt the story into a movie but I think RE is among the easiest as the game plays pretty much like a movie for most of it if you were to change it so Chris and Jill never split up. Compared to most movie adaptations of video games RE is among the best. With a limited budget, time frame and executives who just wanted to make a few quid these movies could have been much worse. They do decline in quality but that's mostly because no one expected them to spawn so many sequels. The licker IS noticeably bad. I think they should have just had a tyrant be the monster or like you said a guy in a suit to play the hunter. The Matrix influences were a nice touch from the slow motion gunshots to the camera tracking the bullets, it's very Gun-Fu but they go a bit overboard turni g it from survival horror to action. I think the underground industrial music fits the movie really well giving it an upbeat intense feel especially during the action scenes but maybe that's because I'm a Manson and Slipknot fan. I agree with allot of you points especially about the lasers and the pointless relationship with Rain and JD and Umbrella not breifing the soldiers. I also think Spence was poorly written and is killed off 5 minutes after he is revealed to be the antagonist which is supposed to be a big twist but half the audience may have already had it spoiled for them at the beginning if you look at the door you can see him close it.

Such a guilty pleasure.. I love this movie.

freeking sharks with laser beams?

*Gerbil sandwich*

The only decent Res Evil movie I like the Day of the Dead homage at the end of the film