Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
As the city is locked down under quarantine, Alice finds out that the people that died from the previous incident at the Umbrella Corporation have turned into zombies. She then joins a small band of elite soldiers, who are enlisted to rescue the missing daughter of the creator of the mutating T-virus. Once lack of luck and resources happen, they begin to wage an exhilarating battle to survive and escape before the Umbrella Corporation erases its experiment from the face of the earth.
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This is considered to be the worst movie in the "Resident Evil" series and for mostly good reason. I admit that the only reason I was attracted to this movie was how it was on Roger Ebert's most hated movies list. I don't hate it as much as he did, but I still hated it. I have known seen every "Resident Evil" movie. I'll at least give them props for being better than oh, 70% of video game movies, not that that says much. The movie's main fault is that it's just nothing but fight scene after fight scene.There's just absolutely nothing in this film that hasn't been done better in other zombie movies. Heck, there's nothing that the other films in the series hasn't done better. It's completely mindless violence with random shooting, which unfortunately could be interpreted as a faithful video game adaptation. We have in fact gotten better video game movies this year like "Tomb Raider" and "Rampage" which, while not masterpieces, at least treat their stories like actual stories. I'm not that familiar with the games, but I was able to recognize Jill Valentine at least. I do think Ebert went a bit too far when telling people not to let their kids date people who like this movie, considering that he was the only critic on RottenTomatoes that liked "Speed 2: Cruise Control". *1/2
After seeing the first film I definitely wanted to see the sequel, I can honestly say it was at least a little better then the first because there is more. This time there is more action less scares.I seen this one on DVD with a buddy, after I responded well to the first he had the second film and brought it over and we watched it, I loved it even more because it had a lot of action and it left me wanting more, because it ends on a cliffhanger.This film pretty much picks up right were the first leaves off, Umbrella employees re-open the hive and release the zombies, within a few hours the city is over-run by the undead. Alice wakes up as in the first and enters the city and helps a group of survivors as they battle against Umbrella Corporation.There are plot twists that are confusing and some unexpected but it's fun. And the best part a video game favorite, Nemesis is in it, and he is awesome.I give it a 7/10. A fun follow up to the first, and like the first, ends on a cliffhanger and leaves you wanting more. But I'll be honest the series goes down hill from here. This is the second best in the series.
As a huge fan of RE -- after watching the first movie -- though not perfect , it is a great movie , i was looking forward to RE2 , in the hopes of seeing all the unique , original ideas , characters and creepy spooky horror elements that made the game scary ( Nemesis in particular ) hoping they would do the game justice , how wrong i was . RE Apocalypse is in my top 10 of worst movies ever made. First; Paul Anderson's screenplay is ridiculous , it is full of stupid , laughable ,embarassing , ilogical and poorly thought out ideas ever conceived to film , with some of the worst continuity errors i have seen in a movie , in both storytelling and logic , that is totally unforgivable , especially a RE fan. This movie is nothing like RE , i don't care that they tuck it in another direction , but you have to stay within the world of the games or the movie will fail as this one did. Another reason it failed was due to Alexander Witt-less' direction. This is the worst directed movie i have ever seen , due to all elements of directing. Alex should stay in second-unit because he doesn't have the skill , talent and vision to helm and sustain an entire movie to him self. Errors in this movie include; Jill Valentine walks into the police station with only one gun and in the next shot another gun pops out of nowhere. Kain is standing next to a man with a bald head and next shot a man with dark hair.( same man ) sniper shoots undead in their heads but when Nemesis shows the sniper doesn't , when in reality there would be no more nemesis. It takes Umbrella 13 hours to build an entire wall around Raccoon city , when in reality it would take months to build and we're supposed to believe it tuck a few hours. How do you write and direct a movie without noticing these things just gos to show why this movie failed. Alex directs this movie with fast cutting and a 100 shots of one punch thrown an inch forward then another 100 of another inch , and when your about to see the impact he cuts out the shot and 2 minutes of the fight is missing , and also he has the camera rammed right infront of what he is shooting and thats the way the movie is from start to finish , and when the movie is over the viewer is left thinking to them selves 'Did i just not see that?' and that is not how to direct a movie because people go to movies to experience them. But the thing that was most damaging to the movie was the constant ripping off ideas of other superior movie ;Escape from new york , Aliens , John Carpenter movies,The Terminator , so blaintly ,that the essence of RE is totally destroyed.The Nemesis in the game is a terrifying fracked-up Jason Vorheeves type character ,in the movie he was the Terminator , and any true fan of RE would never disrespect the franchise in anyway , so i can understand why people think Paul WS is not a true fan of RE but for me its a case of showing how bad a writer Paul is.This movie is not RE , it doesn't deserve its title.Arter so much thought and effort was put into this movie just for it to bomb , critically ,popularity , financially and for the fans make RE2 an embarrassment in the history of film. I give it 3/10 , 1 star for the audio commentary of Mila vovovich(forgive my spelling) and oded Fehr , 2'nd for the actress of Jill Valentine.
After watching the first DVD in my collection box, I excitedly hopped in for the sequel "Resident Evil" Apocalypse". The outbreak worsens as the T-virus invades Raccoon City. New characters enter. New enemies come in. And a greater battle against Umbrella Corporation ensues.The bioweapon "Nemesis" is probably the main attraction of the film. He doesn't look disgusting but threatening. Action sequence is grander than the first film. The church scene, the rooftop, and the final fight are well-choreographed. However, it fell short on horror, which is one of the three main genres of the video game franchise that serves as the source material.The film shows how more evil Umbrella can get, and this is scary for the real world. The plot twist is unexpected, and confusing. It's obvious that there's a need for a second sequel. I'm giving the film 8 of 10. Again, I'm looking for sci-fi, action, and horror, but it fell short on the horror genre. However, this is an action-packed film.