I've been waiting about four years for this movie to be made, and for most part it was worth it. It's pretty much exactly what you would expect- Lack of a good plot plus little character development, but hey, I've seen worse. This movie is a lot of fun though, with plenty of scares plus some nice visual effects and set designs, this movie is at the very least worth seeing if you are any kind of horror fan, I think any fan of the games would love it, I sure did. Speaking of the games, it does remain faithful although there aren't any of the characters you've seen in them, except for the monsters of course.  It's the same old plot of the games though, in fact it is set up a lot like them so it will also be very familier to Resident Evil fans. There a few things I would have changed though. For one the characters didn't seem very real, they didn't really have a story to them, so you can't really care about them or if they die or not. Plus the ending was a little disapointing and was kind of a tease, I expected a little more to happen, but I guess I'll have to wait again for the sequal, although the last thirty seconds was very nice indeed! One last thing... the gore factor, there should have been more! Seems a little silly but it is what the games are known for, I mean the movie got an R rating! Not that there isn't enough gore and violence but there were times in the movie where you expected to see it but didn't. Anyway this movie is still worth seeing, don't expect an oscer winning masterpiece, but expect a lot of mindless fun with plenty of good scares, kind of like the game? Almost. It also is the only movie based on a video game that ends up being well worth it in the end! There aren't to many zombie related movies around these days either, so that's an added bonus.