The Resident Evil Collection (Movies 1-4: Resident Evil / Resident Evil: Apocalypse / Resident Evil

They're ridiculous, they know it, and they don't give a damn what you think. In point of fact, they prefer if you don't think.

Let's get one thing straight, I am a huge fan of the game series. I own Resident Evil 1-5, and I'm probably going to buy 6 soon. I am fully aware that these movies deviate from the games in every way, but for some reason I still love them. They're dumb, stupid fun.

Resident Evil is actually a great movie in and of itself. It's suspenseful, and well made. I appreciate the fact that zombies and other monsters aren't introduced till late in the movie.

Resident Evil: Apocalypse is actually my favorite of the bunch. It's a good action movie, and I think they really captured Nemesis. Great movie, and awesome action.

Resident Evil: Extinction is a little slow, but is ultimately a good movie. The story of this series has never been cohesive, but the plot of this one in particular is just ridiculous. At this point the movies have become self aware and every subsequent sequel is even more bombastic and ridiculous. Awesome...

Resident Evil: Afterlife is a little weird. Kind of strangely paced, but still a solid action movie. I love how they don't even try to explain how the zombies got Las Plagas virus. Just go with it.

Resident Evil: Retribution. Holy hell. What a strange ride. It's a top notch comedy, I'll say that much. I, personally really liked this movie. It's just so... ridiculous. Like I said, these movies have become self aware, and are now just trying to one up each other. This one does a hell of a job.

Milla Jovovich is hamming it up with every single movie. It's really funny. She's always this hardcore action star with a little bit of an emotional side. I also think she's just gorgeous, so that's alright.

These movies aren't oscar winning classics. They're like every cheesy 80's action flick that you love. Keep that in mind if you are looking to buy these films. As for this collection, they are all the individual releases with no added special features other than the ones that are included with the individual release. Good for the price.

This review is going to focus more on the quality of the blu ray transfer rather than evaluating if the movies are quality works of art. For zombie action movies, I think they're pretty good. Anyway, the audio quality on all of the movies seemed pretty outstanding to me; got to love the lossless audio you get with most blu rays. There was a lot depth to the audio track, especially during action scenes (which there are a lot of), that really engrossed me into the film. The overall video quality I would describe as average for blu ray for the first 3 movies, while I would describe Afterlife as above average. There were some scenes that really looked good in that last movie. There was one big issue with the video quality though, black levels.

Black levels were not consistently black during the movies. I didn't notice it during the first movie, but during Apocalypse it was almost unwatchable without adjusting my television. Almost that whole movie takes place at night, so when black is showing up as moderately dark gray, there is an issue. I had to turn the brightness way down on my television to compensate, at which point the movie was watchable. The problem with doing that is black crush, now everything that is supposed to simply be dark gray is black as well. But that's better than everything that is supposed to be black or dark gray being shown as dark gray. The black levels weren't as messed up for Extinction or Afterlife, but they were off a little as well. Especially since more of the movie takes place in light environments, I didn't bother to adjust my television for those.

Overall, I would recommend these if you are a fan of the series and don't have any of the blu rays. I gave the package 4 stars with great audio tracks, good video for the first 3 and great video quality for Afterlife, and the entertainment value of the movies helping and only the black level issues bringing it down. I could have gone down to 3 stars because of the brightness issue, but since you should be able to adjust your television to compensate, it shouldn't be a deal breaker.

EDIT: I stumbled upon Resident Evil: Apocalypse on tv and noticed that the black level was totally off there as well. I decided to dust off my old DVD for that film and yet again black was gray. So it seems that, at least for that movie, the black level issue didn't arise from the Blu Ray transfer, but probably resides in the studio master. I never acquired DVDs for the other RE films, so I can't check those out.

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Blue ray is the only way u should watch these movie.i have only one word for this collection.....have to have it

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the 5 movie boxed set has all the resident movies but there is supposed to be an ultraviolet code in the box, didn't come with one. I am waiting for a prepaid return label to send it back I can get the same boxed set w/the ultraviolet code and could then watch on my tablet any time any where

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I rated this 5 stars, because it is a really good franchise that is worth watching. Non stop action in all of these movies! If you like Sci-Fi with action, then buy this set.

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