Upsetting

Rating: 3/10 (15 October 2004)

With Resident Evil 2 being just about the best game ever, and the first resident evil being just about average, i thought that maybe, just maybe, this film might have provided some entertainment. Unfortunately, all it managed to do was shatter all of my wonderful memories of the classic playstation experience. So I'll keep this brief as it is just too painful.
The direction of this film can be explained in no other way than just plain irritating. Aimed at people with an attention span of roughly less than a second, the film never manages to stick with one shot long enough for you to actually take in anything, and the fight scenes are so jerkily shot that you have to simply take an educated guess that its the zombies who are getting beaten up. Awful dialogue is combined cleverly with worse acting to achieve a spectacularly terrible spectacle. To cap things off, Jill Valentine (an absolute legend from the games) is pathetically underwritten almost to the point of obscurity. Seeing her in that famous little blue top partially compensated though.
Maybe not up (or down) to the horrific computer game-to-movie standards set by Mortal Kombat, but Resident Evil:Apocalypse still managed to annoy, bore and upset me in equal measures. 3/10.