Resident Evil

When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from hell, the government sends in an elite military task force to contain the outbreak.

Critics largely dismissed Paul W.S. Anderson's adaptation as a noisy, mechanical action film that substitutes corporate-horror atmosphere for actual storytelling, landing it among Roger Ebert's most hated films. A minority found genuine genre pleasures in its relentless pacing and anti-corporate subtext — and audiences have proven far more forgiving than critics ever were.