Romero
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Who saw Mission: Impossible II? I just did. I watched the first movie yesterday, I liked it, but I didn't have so high hopes for the second movie in the series. But the sequel turned out to be a very positive surprise (too bad I missed the first 20 minutes of it).
M:I-2 is a nice piece of action with a very nice, heavy, not too loud soundtrack. Some of the music are by Metallica. Many of the action scenes are unrealistic, but I have seen worse. But it's an entertaining piece of work, I like this movie better than the first one.
But what struck me most was the similarities with Resident Evil! The film is 12 years old (2000), and chances are that most of you know the story, but I just have to sum it up.
The story is about a deadly virus (called Chimera) and the battle to control/destroy it. A Russian bio-chemical expert working for Biocyte Pharmaceuticals (think Umbrella) has made the extremely deadly Chimera virus and also an anti-virus (called Bellerophon) to treat the disease. The idea is to cause a pandemic and profit on the Bellerophon anti-virus medicine.
On the protagonist side are Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and Nyah Nordoff-Hall (Thandie Newton).
Effect of the virus: The incubation period is 20 hours, if anti-virus is not administrated within 20 hours death is inevitable. The Russian bio-chemical expert tested the virus on one of his co-workers who died (no he didn't volunteer). Data, including photos of this first victim shows this: Already before the 20 hours, it seems like the patient is getting confused and falling into a state of haze, but is still able to walk. After 20 hours the victim falls very ill as the virus is starting to cause mass destruction of red blood cells. Visually, the symptoms seems to be fever and a change in skin color, possibly salt crystals from sweat. The patient seems to have little or no consciousness a few hours after the 20th hour. The first victim died 34 hours after infection, at that stage his face looked like a zombie.
Many things in the movie reminded me so much about RE4, the "pistols" used to inject the virus, labs and many other details. Ethan Hunt could be Leon Kennedy and his sidekick Nyah Nordoff-Hall could be Ada Wong. Oh my God is Nyah gorgeous!
She has perhaps the most sexy smile seen on a woman. 
Very nice smile but not quite the same as in the movie.
M:I-2 links: IMDb and Wikipedia.
M:I-2 is a nice piece of action with a very nice, heavy, not too loud soundtrack. Some of the music are by Metallica. Many of the action scenes are unrealistic, but I have seen worse. But it's an entertaining piece of work, I like this movie better than the first one.
But what struck me most was the similarities with Resident Evil! The film is 12 years old (2000), and chances are that most of you know the story, but I just have to sum it up.
The story is about a deadly virus (called Chimera) and the battle to control/destroy it. A Russian bio-chemical expert working for Biocyte Pharmaceuticals (think Umbrella) has made the extremely deadly Chimera virus and also an anti-virus (called Bellerophon) to treat the disease. The idea is to cause a pandemic and profit on the Bellerophon anti-virus medicine.
On the protagonist side are Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and Nyah Nordoff-Hall (Thandie Newton).
Effect of the virus: The incubation period is 20 hours, if anti-virus is not administrated within 20 hours death is inevitable. The Russian bio-chemical expert tested the virus on one of his co-workers who died (no he didn't volunteer). Data, including photos of this first victim shows this: Already before the 20 hours, it seems like the patient is getting confused and falling into a state of haze, but is still able to walk. After 20 hours the victim falls very ill as the virus is starting to cause mass destruction of red blood cells. Visually, the symptoms seems to be fever and a change in skin color, possibly salt crystals from sweat. The patient seems to have little or no consciousness a few hours after the 20th hour. The first victim died 34 hours after infection, at that stage his face looked like a zombie.
Many things in the movie reminded me so much about RE4, the "pistols" used to inject the virus, labs and many other details. Ethan Hunt could be Leon Kennedy and his sidekick Nyah Nordoff-Hall could be Ada Wong. Oh my God is Nyah gorgeous!
Very nice smile but not quite the same as in the movie.
M:I-2 links: IMDb and Wikipedia.
