Resident Evil

Unlike last year’s yawn-inducing Tomb Raider, this video-game adaptation has a clammy, nightmarish glaze and tightly coiled sense of tension. A crack commando squad has three hours to invade the Umbrella Corp.’s subterranean laboratory complex and neutralize a super-computer that has apparently run amok. The gruesome action borrows Cube’s slice and dice laser and The Matrix’s combat special effects while bloodied Dobermans from Hell and rotting humans chomp at the gorgeously stone-faced Milla Jovovich (The Fifth Element), the ever-pouting Michelle Rodriguez (Girlfight) and their male entourage.