Resident Evil: Apocalypse

Resident Evil: Apocalypse

~A series better left undead~

By Todd Karella
September 10, 2004

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Rated R

While the first Resident Evil film was filled with suspense, a good amount of gore and a story that kept you on the edge of your seat, the second film decided to throw all of that by the wayside.
This time they opted to make it more like a video game with the main character as an indestructible superhero.
The film starts before the first one ended. Since it was never explained why Alice (Milla Jovovich) awoke to a decimated Raccoon City, they revisit it by showing

The second movie based on the popular video game.

Alice (Milla Jovovich) wakes up and finds herself alone in Raccoon city, after being biogenetically engineered by the Umbrella Corporation.

The virus has escaped and the world is in chaos.

Trying to find a way to stop the virus, Alice teams up with the few remaining survivors to do battle with the zombies.

Original Story Synopsis:

Expect this film to be similar to the first. A Sci-Fi movie with zombies.

Lots of blood and gore, but not scary. It's more like playing the video game. Most popular with those who have played the game or like lots of action.

Movie-Pix Best Guess:

Movie-Pix Hit or Miss

Alice-Milla Jovovich

Jill Valentine -Sienna Guillory

Not even half as good as the original. Some of the basic ideas are the same, but with the character of Alice becoming an invincible superhero the film is more like a video game than a comprehensive story.

Also missing is the suspense which made the original a horror movie with a Sci-Fi edge but is now primarily a mindless action flick wihout the witty dialogue.

Best Guess Results:

A bunch of Zombies?? Screw that!

I've got a great idea. Let's split up.

Can we beat the Zombies in a three-legged race?

the Umbrella Corporation sending in agents to examine what happened in the laboratory.
   Unprepared for what is really going on inside, they end up reopening The Hive and letting the T-Virus loose on the city creating more of the walking dead. That explains why Alice woke up in the original film in a virtual ghost town.
   There’s actually a lot more people still left alive then first alluded. They just all happen to be fleeing across the only bridge in town to escape the undead horde.
   Strangely enough the city is surrounded by a huge wall

That's the biggest fetus I've ever seen!

and even the bridge has a giant gate, which has been closed by the Umbrella Corporation. They are letting the uninfected through one at a time, but once one infected person shows up at the gates they seal everyone in the city leaving them to die.
This doesn’t sit well with those still trapped in the city, and particularly with police officer Jill Valentine (Sienna Guillory) who unexplainably knew what was going on from the beginning and decided the best way to fight the zombies was to show up in a miniskirt and high-heeled boots.
Jill teams up with her fellow officer Peyton Wells (Razaaq Adoti) and a scared reporter named

Terri Morales (Sandrine Holt). The three look for shelter in a church and find themselves in the middle of a den of zombies and some of the genetically engineered monsters from the first film.
   Thankfully for them, Alice somehow knows where they are, crashes through a stained-glass window on a motorcycle, flips off of it and proceeds to kill off all of the baddies.
   Alice joins with the three as they try and find a way out of the city. At the same time, the creator of the virus has found out that his daughter is one of those still trapped inside Raccoon City. Using street cameras, he finds several groups of survivors and offers them passage out of the city if they go to his daughter’s school and rescue her.
   Upon arriving at the school they decide that the best course of action is to split up. Since there’s hundreds of zombies running around that can easily take out the entire group at once, it’s obviously a brilliant decision. While the two police officers probably stand a decent chance, the reporter who is having a hard time holding her camera let alone a gun is forced to go off on her own as well. I bet you can guess who dies out of this group.
   From here the movie erupts into total chaos as people start dropping like flies so Jill and the

daughter hook up with a group of Umbrella agents who are also trapped in the city and have been contacted to complete the same mission.
Not only does this new group have the zombies to deal with, but the Umbrella Corporation finds out about their mission and sends out one of their super soldiers who looks more like Sloth from The Goonies to kill them all.
This new creature slaughters everyone in its path as it hunts for its prime target: Alice. This leads to the ultimate confrontation on a rooftop as they try to board a helicopter and Alice and the creature go head to head and we learn how she became so powerful and who the monster really is

Once again the ending is ambiguous as the first film. They manage to escape just before the city is nuked, but Alice is captured once again by the Umbrella Corporation. She escapes with the help of her new friends from Raccoon City, but Umbrella has once again done something to her.
After comparing the first two films in this series, it’s hard to believe that there really will be a third one. The second one is barely worth renting and sequels generally have a downwards trend.