11 Unnecessarily Flamboyant Scenes Wasted In Terrible Movies

6. The Laser Trap - Resident Evil

The Scene: While making their way through the Hive, a team of commandos are sealed inside a hallway as a laser defense grid is activated. Though Kaplan (Martin Crewes) works hard to hack the system and save them, they're slowly picked off one by one. Just One (Colin Salmon) remains, and as he attempts to dodge the laser, it transforms into a box-grid, slicing into him just as Kaplan manages to deactivate the system. Alice (Milla Jovovich) patiently wait to see what happens...and One collapses into a pile of meaty chunks. Why It's Unnecessary: In fairness, this is the best scene in any of the Resident Evil movies and quite possibly of Paul W.S. Anderson's entire career. Still, it's needlessly flamboyant for a number of reasons: firstly, why on Earth would the Red Queen's defense system have a series of "phases" it goes through, firing single laser beams at the team when it could just kill them all in one fell swoop with the box-grid? Sure, it might make for a more entertaining scene this way, but even if you argue that the Red Queen was toying with the commandos, this seems pretty stupid considering the potential time this gives someone (such as Kaplan) to try and hack the system and shut the lasers down. Given how laughably bad the visual effects throughout the movie are, this is the one scene that actually shines on a technical level, even if there was a far more efficient and cost-effective way to have the commandos be killed off. If only someone had filmed George A. Romero's original Resident Evil script but thrown this scene into it for good measure. Now that's something we could get behind...