How does the Red Queen work on the blu disc?
As a collection, movies based on games are uniform only in just how abysmal they are.
Helming this one is game conversion specialist Paul W.S.
Anderson, after zombie expert George A. Romero exited stage left over creative differences.
In this, they team up when a super-computer intentionally infects an underground complex with a zombifying virus.
There are many gruesome deaths, much screaming, running and uncontrolled mutating.
Okay, so I made up the fashion model bit somewhat, but you get the drift.
But its 97 minutes of pure popcorn, the odd decent special effect and jack-in-a-box scares.
The colours are also rich and vibrant, which makes the Red Queen sequences leap off the screen.
But Ive realised since that this is the aspect it was shot in originally.
It also gives some attractive bass oomph to the heavily metal music which punctuates the soundtrack.
English and Italian justify TrueHD, while French, Spanish and Portuguese audio are in just ordinary Dolby 5.1.
Neither is that informative, but the effects team makes more of an effort to describe their production issues.
There are 12 short featurettes, with the longest being 27 minutes but the majority are 3-4 minutes only.
For your amusement check out the cut-away in this where we see someone put a disc in a PS2.
Given they put it in the tray upside down, I wonder how that played?
Movie:
Rating:
4 out of 5
