it’s interesting that there are so many ways to make a bad movie.
this is a movie that you expect to be bad, even terrible, and you leave the theater feeling disappointed that it exceeded, somehow, impossibly low expectations.
RE2 is actually bad because it expects nothing of its audience, and we don’t exceed it’s impossibly low expectations.
that said, I would be lying if I didn’t say I enjoyed it.
it occurs to me now that there wasn’t a lot of pure CG. Most of it was real, and that makes it more convincing than CG epics like Van Helsing.
The structure is simple but effective. Careful plot rationing means that the audience has something to chew on as they leave the theater.
September 19, 2004.
Coronet Theater, 945pm.