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Resident Evil: Umbrella Corporation
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Resident Evil is a 2002 science fiction horror film loosely based on the Resident Evil series of survival horror games developed by Capcom. Borrowing elements from the Resident Evil and Resident Evil 2 video games, the film follows the amnesiac heroine Alice, along with a group of Umbrella Corporation commandos, as they attempt to escape a secret underground facility full of zombies. The film was directed by Paul W. S. Anderson, and was released in the United States on March 15, 2002, and in Japan on August 31, 2002. The film was commercially successful, grossing $102,441,078 worldwide,[1] ... it received many negative reviews from critics such as Roger Ebert.[2]
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[T]he gender politics of both of the Resident Evil films are complex but ultimately troubling. The films depict patriarchal attitudes unflatteringly and frequently undermine such attitudes, while they embody an approved model of masculinity in Resident Evil’s gentle anti-corporate activist Matt — notwithstanding his typically liberal naiveté in worrying primarily about whether Umbrella’s activities are legal or illegal. The films' women, meanwhile, are active, violent agents. Alice even reverses the male gaze in spectacularly literal fashion at the end of Apocalypse. Undoubtedly, such images destabilize gender representations such that, as Yvonne Tasker argued some time ago,
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Though Umbrella Chronicles doesn't look anywhere near as nice as, say, Resident Evil 4, it manages to capture the dirty, undersaturated, run-down feel of the series. Despite some ugly-looking textures, the environments pack in a good amount of detail, and the various zombified people, dogs, monkeys, sharks, snakes, and plants look appropriately fetid. It's too bad that much of the spooky tension that has been a Resident Evil hallmark gets sucked out of Umbrella Chronicles by an overbearing soundtrack that sounds like it belongs in a different, faster-paced game. The voice acting is a better fit, with the role of Albert Wesker, who serves as the game's narrator, being particularly entertaining.
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