...Sorry to all the Capcom fans out there, but this movie goes into the vault of all the rest of the video-games-turned-movie[s]. ...The story takes a odd jump from a office building that is terminated by a unknown machine that kills all the employees, to a half-naked...er, whole-naked woman waking up in a bathtub in a weird mansion.  Alice (Milla Jovovich) has amnesia from what just happened.  Only seconds later, the mansion is attacked and bombarded by gung-ho S.W.A.T.-like marines with roughneck attitudes...(yawn)!  Alice is taken captive, were there she is revealed to be a member of the squad...but she doesn't remember.  Alice meets a mysterious cop (Eric Mabius) and a charming nobody (James Purefoy) that later turns out to be a charming jerk-off...or is that a jerk-off nobody?  The Marines and the 3 are taken to a an underground lab, where the same inccident took place at the very beginning.  The machine that killed the office employees is already planning to kill the marines...As for the basic plot?  Well, when I mean "basic", I mean it was as if the writer just watched "Aliens" or "Night of the Living Dead", took out his laptop computer and started writing a remake of the movie he had just watched and titled it "Resident Evil"...because he just saw a commercial for some game called "Resident Evil"...