Fan of the game series here

Rating: 6/10 (15 September 2004)

This review is completely edited because as a fan translator I've made myself to produce subtitles to my language for this movie which really changed my view of it.
I would like to stress the prerequisites for this flick very strongly because on them depend how you will or will not like it. Firstly you virtually have to like scifi-horror-zombie flicks as a genre. Secondly you should be the fan of related game series and be decently acquainted with its style and content. Some tolerance towards cheesiness comes in handy too. If you do not meet any on these requirements, please don't bother watching this movie because there's only a slim chance you would like it. Despite the fact the authors of the movie try to speak to the broadest audience I believe only RE fans and people who simply love action flicks for action can be appealed.
Apocalypse connects to previous RE movie very tightly and there are tons of things you would recognize in it if you played the games. Acting is not bad but certainly not brilliant which is very understandable considering the genre. In fact I liked Jill and Carlos, the were both nicely laconic and tough but not overly tough. Action scenes in Apocalypse have their excesses better labeled as stupidities but sometimes they can be explained. If you are capable to ignore corny padding around the scenes, you realize the plot actually makes a sense and pays homage to overall RE storyline.
****SPOILERS**** For those who complained about some things they didn't understand in the movie I offer here some explanations. Through her adaptation of T-virus Alice became superhuman which explains most of stunts she had made. She was also capable to smell infected humans and monsters a mile off. That's why she charged into the church - not to save anyone but to kill those licker bastards. The wall around the city shown at graphical model wasn't the actual real wall. It was just the simplest way to show all the exits were sealed. The zombies crawling out of their graves were just scene borrowed from the game (in this case RE: Code Veronica); I still consider it a weak spot. Same as Alice's new psychic powers, how got Dr. Ashford infected or why the heck was Angie there at the end of the movie...
All in all Apocalypse is very flawed but as a fan of the game series I only took the good parts from it.
6/10