“Resident Evil” may well be a milestone in movies or at least from my experience as never before have I seen a zombie movie I’ve liked (comedies don’t count) and I’ve most certainly never seen a good videogame adaptation. Based upon a series of games I’ve never spent more than five minutes with “Resident Evil” proves to be a fun experience.

The evil Umbrella corporation is the richest company in the world and in their underground facility, a dangerous chemical is released. The hordes of zombies it creates are kept in lockdown until a team go inside to see what happened. They accidentally unearth the monsters and now, it is a race to get back to the surface.

Milla Jovovich (“The Fifth Element”) plays Alice, who is really the main character of the film. Milla Jovovich is great as she’s not just a pretty face as she dishes out some of her signature fighting skills to defeat the undead. There is one memorable scene in which she kicks a zombie dog. The other characters aren’t too interesting but that’s what I generally find with zombie pictures. The main zombies are okay I guess but there is a larger one with a massive tongue that stands out and is actually quite impressive.

“Resident Evil” suckered me in with its cryptic beginning scenes involving Jovovich’s character waking up nude in a bathtub with no memories (much like the movie “Dark City”). Also, the idea of an evil company with an underground lair is great. I’m not too keen on the zombie stuff but I guess it’s reasonably fun and seeing a zombie dog get kicked is pretty darn funny. The film’s ending is really, really good in my books. “Resident Evil” certainly isn’t anything special but I’ve been waiting for a movie based on a videogame and a zombie movie I can recommend because I knew there had to be at least one which was decent.