anselmdaniel This review contains spoilers.Resident Evil: Apocalypse is the sequel to 2002's Resident Evil. The movie is a follow-up to the original with Alice waking up in an abandoned hospital in Racoon City. The T-Virus has been unleashed on the city and Alice along with any survivors must make an attempt to escape the city before its destruction.Resident Evil: Apocalypse has fun action scenes with its larger scope and fun stunts. The movie unleashes the T-Virus on a city, and the scope is much grander in this movie. There are more zombies and bio-weapons across the city. People that enjoy the larger scope and action will enjoy this motion picture. The higher budget in this movie is spent on the action and effects.Resident Evil: Apocalypse like the previous Resident Evil is based on the video game series. This movie is based on parts of the second and third game. The movie uses the Nemesis character from the third game. Nemesis is the result of one of the characters being infected from the first movie. This was not a good adaptation of the Nemesis character as he did not feel as scary as the Nemesis character in the video game. Nemesis is controlled by The Umbrella Corporation and he only kills when he feels like it. This was a bad decision since Nemesis seemed like a joke in this movie.The Umbrella Corporation are a laughable villain in Resident Evil: Apocalypse. Somehow the corporation has full power over a United States city. They are able to control Nemesis and even send their own mercenaries on a suicide mission. The Umbrella Corporation does not have a clear goal in this plot. They are obstructions to the goals of the main characters.The scenes in this movie are fun to watch but are ultimately superfluous. The movie could easily be one hour but the superfluous scenes increase the run-time. One of these scenes is Nemesis engaging S.T.A.R.S to show the effectiveness of Nemesis. This is not necessary as Nemesis is confronted later by the main characters. Resident Evil: Apocalypse is filled with scenes like these.Alice is also a very favored character in this sequel. She is not expanded upon and the movie suffers from it. The first movie has told the audience everything they need to know about this character.Overall, Resident Evil: Apocalypse is hard to recommended. The movie is not good but it is fun. I would recommend Resident Evil: Apocalypse to fans of the video games that enjoy mindless action. Action junkies that are looking for something with more substance should look elsewhere.
Adam Post Resident Evil Apocalypse is a loose adaptation of the video game Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, and/or a cross between Resident Evil 2 & Resident Evil: Nemesis.Alice wakes up in the Raccoon City lab (that was referenced at the end of the first movie) and finds herself in an abandoned, post-apocalyptic city called Raccoon City. She meets several people along the way (some survivors, some spec-ops like the first movie) and they try to find a way out of the city together (the government is going to nuke Raccoon City to contain/kill the infected/the T-Virus). Towards the end of the movie, Alice must face a "boss" (like in the video games) called "The Nemesis". He is virtually indestructible; she finds out it is one of the people from the first movie (Michael) and he ends up sacrificing himself to save the group from a helicopter crash. The final scene reveals that a man named Doctor Isaacs cloned Alice (this will come into play in the next movie).FINAL VERDICT: Unlike the first movie, this one was pretty accurate to the games (in my opinion); so...if you like action movies, zombies, bad-ass girls, or all of the above AND the Resident Evil games, you'll like this movie!
swilliky Filling in some details from the events right after the original, the sequel begins on a grander scale. All of Raccoon City falls victim to the infection of the T-Virus. Alice (Milla Jovovich) wakes up from experimentation and starts fighting zombies. The film introduces a new set of characters who struggle to survive the Apocalypse. Jill Valentine (Sienna Guillory) is a tough cop who isn't afraid to shoot a zombie in the head as the virus begins to spread. Carlos Olivera (Oded Fehr) is part of a tactical team that ventures into the city to help extract civilians. L.J. (Mike Epps) is a petty crook with custom pistols who is just trying to survive.As the virus spreads, the military begins to quarantine all the citizens and only evacuate the important of the Umbrella corporation. Major Cain (Thomas Kretschmann) leads the operation and is tasked with evacuating the scientist Dr. Ashford (Jared Harris) who tasks the remaining survivors with finding his daughter Angie (Sophie Vavasseur). Check out more of this review and others at swilliky.com
ivo-cobra8 Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) is an excellent sequel that follows the roots to the first film. This one and the first one are the best films in the franchise, it is not so good as the first one but it is close. I love this film to death and it is the last good film that I love. This time Resident Evil is directed by Alexander Witt and this was his first film he directed and his only film he ever directed. He works more on Camera and Electrical Department before he went and directed this movie. I can say Alexander Witt was awesome, he knew what was he doing and he did a really excellent job directing this movie and he directed perfectly. Milla Jovovich did return as fierce Alice and she is fabulous as always and Paul W.S. Anderson also returned as writer and producer. We have now a new cast Sienna Guillory and Oded Fehr and no one returns from the first movie. Apocalypse I love as a guilty pleasure because there were some things I did like about it: The girl who played Jill (Sienna Guillory) was pretty good with what she had to do. Oded Fehr as Carlos was awesome probably the biggest bad ass in the film series. Also the zombies in the city were cool because it reminded me of Resident evil 2.Plot: Alice (Milla Jovovich), who struggles to find out what the Umbrella corporation has done to her as she leads survivors in an escape from a Raccoon City infested with the dead. Directed by Alexander Witt, the film features several characters from the video game series including Jill Valentine (Sienna Guillory), Nicholai Ginovaeff (Zack Ward), and Carlos Olivera (Oded Fehr).After narrowly escaping the horrors of the underground Hive facility, Alice (Milla Jovovich) is quickly thrust back into a war raging above ground between the living and the Undead. As the city is locked down under quarantine, Alice s a small band of elite soldiers, led by Valentine (Sienna Guillory, Love, Actually) and Carlos (Oded Fehr, The Mummy Returns), enlisted to rescue the missing daughter of Dr. Ashford, the creator of the mutating T-virus. Its a heart-pounding race against time as the group faces off against hordes of blood- thirsty zombies, stealthy Lickers, mutant canines and the most sinister foe yet. Written and produced by the visionary director of Resident Evil, Paul W. S. Anderson (Alien Vs. Predator) and directed by Alexander Witt, Resident Evil: Apocalypse is a superior sci-fi suspense sequel.All three Resident Evils are wonderful pieces of work. They aren't just like every other zombie movie, they really have plots. And they are really suspenseful and just plain awesome. Rocket launchers, guns, zombies, villains trying to destroy the world. This movie rocks so much its not funny the action is just perfect not to gory not to weak its a perfect movie, this film is a great zombie film with exceptional graphics and fight scenes. There isn't many trilogy's that can say they didn't become over rated and less entertaining as time went on, this trilogy and film is amazing.Resident Evil is a thrill ride with some really intense action. Fans of the game should like the costuming work done with Jill and how the monster makeup made the Nemesis look just like he does in the game. It had some of the best action I've seen in a long time.The most in this film that I love is the dark scenes, the film is filmed at night, which I love that. I love the action in the church when Jill Valentine and a group of survivors are fighting those giant zombie monsters and Alice jumps with a motorcycle trough the window and she drove's right in front of zombie monster, jumps off the motorcycle makes a back flip from off of the motorcycle and landed, posted up and pulled out her guns and blew the zombie and the motorcycle up! If that isn't a bad ass or what. I don't know what to tell you. Alice raises her dual two-tone Heckler & Koch MP5Ks and fires them on a zombie monster.I love that this film is a rescue mission on a little girl Angie Ashford (Sophie Vavasseur) which Alice with Jill and Carols is coming to school to rescue her and escape from Raccoon City before it is destroyed by a nuclear missile.Overall: I love this film to death, It is almost as good as the first one, just the original will always be the best one! 10 out of 10 this excellent action horror sequel gets, I had a lot of fun and a blast watching this film. I love the bad ass song The End of Heartache by Killswitch Engage and Vermillion by Slipknot those two movies kicks ass.Resident Evil: Apocalypse is a 2004 apocalyptic fiction action horror film directed by Alexander Witt, from a screenplay written by producer Paul W. S. Anderson. It is the second installment in the Resident Evil film series, which is based on the Capcom survival horror video game series Resident Evil.10/10 Score: A Studio: Constantin Film, Davis Films, Impact Pictures Starring: Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Oded Fehr, Thomas Kretschmann, Jared Harris, Mike Epps, Sophie Vavasseur, Iain Glen, Matthew G. Taylor Director: Alexander Witt Producers: Paul W. S. Anderson, Jeremy Bolt, Don Carmody Screenplay by Paul W. S. Anderson Based on Resident Evil by Capcom Rated: R Running Time: 1 Hrs. 34 Mins. Budget: $45.000.000 Box Office: $129,394,835
