The Umbrella Corporation's Vault, a secret facility located deep below
Raccoon City, is sabotaged and a deadly virus is stolen. In the mansion
that conceals another entrance to the Vault, Alice (Milla Jovovich) lies
on the shower floor, naked except for the shower curtain. She can't
remember anything but, as she dresses, she recalls memory fragments.
Then, masked intruders burst through the windows. They tell Alice she is
a Corporation agent living undercover in the mansion. She goes with
them into the Vault to discover who sabotaged it. As they penetrate the
Vault, trying to get to the Red Queen, the computer system at the heart
of the facility, Alice and her confederates face many horrors--dead
bodies suspended in water, blood-red flayed dogs, flesh-eating zombies,
and "the Licker," a dynamically mutating monster.Basing RESIDENT EVIL on
the popular video game, writer-director Paul W.S. Anderson delivers a
tense, exciting science-fiction/horror film. Anderson and director of
photography David Johnson shot the movie in rich silver-and-black, so
that its few bursts of color are striking--like the image of the blonde
Milla Jovovich in a very short crimson dress, with a trailing veil, and
black boots dragging a silver axe behind her.