Resident Evil

A quick question on zombie motives: the generally accepted action any given zombie will take is to cluster with other zombies and then seek out human flesh to devour. In yesterday's offering there was no real explination even attempted aside from "it's a virus." Today's offering, also a zombie movie, uses a virus as well to turn living people into zombies. The explination the supercomputer gives about the zombie motives is that the virus stimulates the latent electrical energy in the human body reanimating the corpse. The subject retains some slight memories, but mostly just feels the urge to "fulfil the basest apetites." When the computer is prodded to explain, she replies (I was surprised at least) "To feed!" So, here's my question of their motives: why human flesh? Why wouldn't they all get a massive hankering for chicken wings, a double bacon cheeseburger, or pepperoni pizza? Why not each other? Sam Raimi's zombies were animated by evil, giving us a morality play: good dead help the living, evil dead kill the living. Romero's still have a little bit of that morality, but it's not expounded, and he frankly doesn't care, but you can catch that morality in the tag line "When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth." Resident evil just doesn't have that.
I enjoyed this movie more for the tie in to the video game rather than the horrer aspect of it. After the five minute prologue followed by 95 minutes of neck biting/head shooting/blood flowing/Sarah Polley and Lindy Booth looking hot that was witnessed last night, Resident Evil was not quite boring, but headed in that drection. Lurching zombies just don't have the same scare factor anymore. Plus the only monster that moves with any speed is built of a poorly animated one. If I'd had a bunch of other people around, that's copeable. Alone it's distracting. Milla Jovovich's character is recovering from amnesia for most of the film, so we don't get to see her doing a whole tone of zombie killing, so I am still looking forward to RE: Apocalypse this summer which should be a bit more of an action movie rather than a half-way action, half-way horror.

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