Best Sci-Fi

Two words ... James Cameron.

James Cameron is a Genius! "Look Into My Eye!"

Great memorable characters, big guns, kick-ass alien bad guy, and a muddy Schwarzenegger. What more do you want?

A kick-ass movie coming from a kick-ass video game series. One of my favorite endings in a movie of all-time!!
"Thank YOU!!"

A rare direct-to-video flick with all the fixings to be a classic! Stephen Norrington shows his raw talent with what he has to work with.
Easily holds in owns to films like Aliens and Predator.

Not much of a plot, but fast-paced popcorn fun from this third film in the franchise.
...waiting for #4...

Better than you'd think!

Now this is a Robert Rodriquez flick! ... Screw all those Spy Kids movies.

Very stylish way of introducing all the characters, even almost 10 years later you can still find that same style in recent films.

Visceral attack on your senses!!
Some of the best editting, choreography, and CG baby to date.

REVIEW UPDATE: 7/4/08

This second sequel to the 2002 original kind of comes off as trying to hard to be a bunch of other current trendy movies and showcases unnessecary C.G. techniques instead of faithfully portraying it's source material the Resident Evil video games series.
Director Russell Mulcahy seems more interested in making Milla Jovovich and Ali Larter look pretty as most all close-ups of the actresses are obviously "touched-up" to reduce skin imperfections. Which in the context of this movie, set 5 years after R.E: Apocalypse, does not make a whole lot of sense considering that survivors of the virus would not be eating very well plus being exposed to the sun. Yes it is just a movie, but in a "zombie" movie people are not suppose to look glamorous.
In Addition, this film is plagued (pun intended) by the "running zombie". No, zombies are not suppose to sprint at full speed or climb the Eiffle Tower replica - neither are featured in a Resident Evil game (R.E.4 doesn't count, they were not zombies in the traditional sense). This particular scene was quite pointless and boring.
What happened to the game characters? The character Claire Redfield was never in the military or just a natural leader. And I guess Jill Valentine and the little girl Angie Ashford just rode off into the sunset for their own little adventure - their existence is never mentioned.
Even with these odd omissions and style choices, there are some shining geniune flashes of R.E. goodness.
The Tyrant looks convicing and very R.E. game-ish! It's quite clever how Dr. Issacs injects himself with the T-Virus, very similar to what the video game character William Birkin did to become an unstoppable force. Out of the three movies, the look of zombies is best here and not hidden by that horrible strobe effect as in the second film (what the hell was Alexander Witt thinkin'?). Plus the crow gathering scene strengthens the film and is interesting and intense. Hairs stood-up over my body when Alice finally shows up in this sequence. (Probably the best scene in the movie!)
As a viewing experience this film is not as cheesy as R.E: Apocalypse, however is a little TOO Sci-Fi and not enough zombie "brain-eating" horror.
R.E: Extinction adds to overall the most successful video game to movie adaptation franchise, and I'd definitely watch a fourth installment!!
(Bring it on Paul Anderson, maybe you should direct this time though...)

DVD WORTHY:
Sure why not, give it a spin!

BLU-RAY (Hi-Def) WORTHY:
YES! I actually think this film benefits from being experienced in Hi-Def and on a smaller more intimate screen.