With a modicum of style to cover over the iffy CG and an absolutely bonkers score, Anderson actually did a pretty sterling effort with such a comparatively low budgetįeaturing a supporting cast peppered with familiar faces - Fast and Furious's own Michelle Rodriguez, Rome's James Purefoy, Ugly Betty's Eric Mabius, and Krypton's own General Zod, Colin Salmon - Anderson put a young, not-far-off- Fifth Element, Milla Jovovich front and centre as his initially-amnesiac warrior, wandering the creepy halls of a potentially infested high security facility before going full Bourne to kick all kinds of ass. It's a shame then, that this first feature was the only halfway decent one, made at a time when there was still the promise that, with a little finesse, they could take this franchise to Fast Five heights. The result? He'd craft a billion dollar franchise - easily the most successful ever based on a game - and even marry the star. It was Mortal Kombat - that relatively rare successful videogame adaptation - which got him a shot at adapting the massively popular Japanese console game franchise, seeking to craft something of a prequel film, on a modest budget (half that of his previous films) called Resident Evil: Ground Zero. Anderson enjoyed a modest success with his sophomore effort, 1995's Mortal Kombat, but his next two sci-fi flicks flopped spectacularly (despite Event Horizon being a surprisingly entertaining effort which has since gone on to develop something of a cult following). The Resident Evil franchise is a little like the Fast and Furious series, only we unfortunately never got that magic " Fast Five" moment. Despite being the first in a series of ultimately diminishing returns, 2002's Resident Evil was a pretty decent shot at a modest budget adaptation of the videogame.
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