cricketbat Resident Evil: Apocalypse didn't quite work for me. It isn't as fun or as frightening as the original. There are some entertaining moments as well as some scary ones, but, for the most part, it's a cliched mess of action sequences.

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 members 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.

willcundallreview Milla Jovovich is back in a style, well a style that is exactly the same as before, in poor style. We now see Zombies roaming the streets of Raccoon City and they're just hell bent on getting some of that human flesh, the zombies consist of a mix of normal or stereotypical zombies, and then some really quick really weird and really stupidly created CGI zombies that we saw in the first movie, but now we see them just a little more. The series I felt could have taken itself into new territory, cast away its first instalment and really gone for it with a promising new plot and a big city to play with. My previous point is not met and we see yet again a poor movie, not one that is near to being hateable, but dislikeable nevertheless.The plot plays out like a video game (oh wait the whole film is based on a video game) and really goes all out on the violence but also rather disappointingly the crazy stunts too. One such stunt that I felt was superbly unneeded was a motorbike crashing through a church window; it was just a pointless bit of thriller filler and had nothing to add to the already dull prospect of an adventure with these characters. And what about those characters? ,well what can be said really other than Jovovich is not bad but far from great, she plays the role in a kind of mediocre way in which she can seem like she is really going to do some OK acting but then scuppers the chance. Sienna Guillory as Jill Valentine is again a failed prospect, one thing I hated about her character was the way she is portrayed as this hard cop who is skillful with a gun and yet we see no evidence really, poor yet again. The rest of the cast don't offer much, and the fleeting glimpses of OK actors like Iain Glen are too short to make any acting alright. A lot of the mistakes of the film also lie in the controls of director Alexander Witt whose hand is one that is well hardly one at all, he never fully takes the reigns and the whole flow of the movie can at times lose its rhythm. The writing from Paul W.S Anderson is nothing to help either here; the director of the first movie fails to create a story that is fun or exciting, only yet again that word, poor. The whole technical aspect side of this is also not the best, I mean the productions look isn't all bad and at least it looks the part but it doesn't help too much. The camera work is shoddy and the strange sort of shaky look they give the zombies is horrible and it only creates a sense of motion sickness not horror.So really in conclusion I can only say this is horror not done so well but to be fair it isn't completely just bad. The movie has it's high leg kicks, seemingly impossible jumps and of course gun shots galore and that is all fine and will probably please those who like that kind of thing. The problem I have is the lazy directing and writing and the basic plot which to me is unforgivable and should have been addressed and not just thrown out onto the screen before properly having a look. So anyway before I go off subject about recommending I think many can enjoy this but many won't, depends if you're won over easily or enjoy zombie horror that much.

David Arnold After surviving the horrors of The Hive and managing to escape, Alice (Mila Jovovich) discovers that the T-Virus has found it's way into Raccoon City resurrecting the dead. On her route to try and get out the city, she comes across other bands of survivors and they join forces to try and escape before the Umbrella Corporation resorts to extreme measures in "cleansing" the city. To do this, though, they first need to rescue the daughter of Dr. Ashford (the creator of the T-Virus) who is still within in the city limits. This will be made all the more harder, however, as the Umbrella Corporation have sent in a formidable opponent to stop them...Nemesis.Resident Evil: Apocalypse is a pretty decent sequel to the enjoyable Resident Evil movie, and is made much more enjoyable with the introduction of Nemesis. Thankfully, Nemesis makes more than just one solitary appearance as he is such a formidable character & presence (just like Pyramid Head in Silent Hill), and I'd maybe go as far as to say that if it wasn't for that character then the movie may have lacked a wee bit even with all the other action.The action in the movie is pretty relentless from start to finish with a good few impressive action scenes, two of which being the church scene involving Alice and three Lickers, and the action following the scene where Alice runs face first down a 200 foot building.The story line continues on from the 1st movie, but never really develops much until the final few scenes which lead onto the 3rd film, so don't expect much from this sequel story-wise.The acting is a wee bit dire in some places, mainly from Sienna Guillory who plays Jill Valentine, but thankfully it's not bad enough to actually throw you off from watching the film.All in all, like I say, this is a decent sequel and even if you're not familiar with the game series, it's still an enjoyable action flick.