i first saw this movie at the video store and decided to rent it and it was mind blowing. unlike other horror films this one had a plot. the sequences were really inventive and the danger was almost real. any way, the film starts in the hive, a underground reaserch lab beneath racoon city. a women then wakes up with her memory completly earased. then a team of cammandos comes in a briefs her. saying about five hours ago the red queen (the super computer that controls the hive) goes homicidle and locks up the hive, killing everyone down there. they reopen it to shut down the red queen but when they shut her down and she reboots...something happens that isent in the plan. they find out the t-virus, a genetic mutating weapon, was realeased into the air vents and the entire staff was infected. then they became flesh eating zombies. they then find out that umbrella (the company in charge of the hive) was really doing military tactics, genatic reaserch, and viral weaponry. now the team must escape the hive and reach the surface in under 3 hours or they are done for. see this movie, it will leave you flabergasted.