Resident Evil Apocalypse review

Resident Evil: Apocalypse

Two years after the first resident evil we get its sequel but can more action more game characters and a new director make a better film we will find out. Also after some feedback from a friend I’m going to try a slightly new format the plot summary will be smaller and hopefully the review more beefy.

The second resident evil opens exactly where the first one ended and now the virus has taken over the town. During the course of the movie Alice finds a group of survivors has to rescue an umbrellas scientist’s daughter fight a super zombie named nemesis and escape the city before it is blown to bits. She also finds out that she has been injected with a mutated t-virus which makes her faster and stronger.

This movie definitely has more things linking it to the game then the first but unfortunately like the games, has decided to go the action route instead of the horror route which made the games famous. The atmosphere is creepy up until the point Alice throws a motorcycle at a licker then shoots it making it explode.

As a plus we get more locations and characters from the game including Carlos, Jill, Nicolai, and of course nemesis who has his trade mark weapons. We get a graveyard scene which is like the game. There’s a scene where a group of people are fighting off a group of zombies and one reflects off a fallen police helmet and this is like the intro to resident evil 3.

The scientist that has Alice find his daughter lasts name is Ashford witch are the founders of umbrella in the games. There is one amusing line where Jill says she feels that Ashford is just watching them like it is a sick game. At the beginning of the movie Alice is in a gun shop which is sort of like in resident evil 2.

The acting is ok for the most part but the movie is so over the top with action that it doesn’t have a horror feel to it at all and why on gods earth would you go through a cemetery during a zombie attack then instead of shooting they use hand to hand it just seems silly. As do a lot of the action scenes.

Ultimately the movie fails to capture the spirit of the game and dumped the one thing the first movie had going for it witch was the atmosphere. Angela who is Ashford’s daughter is sort of like Sherry Berkin in the since they both are dressed the same and need to be saved. And of course the end when they blow up raccoon city with a nuke is just like the game.

Nemesis looked ok but they went with a human rubber suit instead of cg and it shows just like the thing in fantastic four. I’m a big fan of practical effects but nemesis I think would have benefited from a bit of cg. The over the top action comes to a close when Alice awakes after the nuke and has psychic powers.

so how would I do it well I would of kept more of a creepy atmosphere and probably would have kept the location to the police station from 2 and maybe then mixed in outside in raccoon city from 3. And I would have used Leon as a character.

Overall I give the movie 5 out of 10 exploding motor cycles the acting was nothing to complain about but the action while entertain at points was over the top and should not have been the focus of the film.

The acting gets a 7 out of 10 Mila was good as Alice again everyone else was ok and nothing to really complain about.

The plot gets 4 out of 10 it had a lot more to do with the game then the first one and the ending was the same as one of the games.

Content gets 6 out of 10 there where actual game characters this time and they had nemesis which was cool.

Ok so another one done next up is the second Uwe boll movie and it stars none other than that great well of acting talent known as Christian Slater.