This probably rates as one of my favorites in the franchise, so far. It seems a bit weird, however, to see the "giant zombie" creature from _Silent Hill_ but…I don't know. I'm assuming this is something they did intentionally? But again, I'm watching these as strictly a "film afficionado", and I've never played the video game so I have no idea how this measures up to the actual game…or whether there's a correlation between the _Resident Evil_ and _Silent Hill_ video games. As far as an action/horror/sci-fi movie, though, this was actually not a bad film. Granted, it took on (IMO) far too many similarities of _The Matrix_ franchise (an unmatchable series, IMO) and became pretty ridiculous at some points. The "evolution" of the creatures was pretty wicked and made for a more interesting movie than just your average shuffling undead creatures. I'm not naive: there were a number of things about this particular film that just weren't very good but compared to the "inaction" and plodding storylines of the other films (so far), this was intriguing. To me.

But I've never played the game, so I have no idea how this stacks up against the rest of the franchise when it comes to that particular aspect of the film. As far as a movie goes, however, I would definitely give this a recommendation because it's just a decent action/sci-fi movie with some weird villains tossed in there.