My Review

Rating: 6/10 (18 July 2008)

Picking up where "Resident Evil" left off, "Apocalypse" centers around the Umbrella Project and the Hive - the place where the T virus was unleashed, turning humans into the living dead. Umbrella decides to try to re-open the Hive, but the creatures escape and begin to wreak havoc on Raccoon City.
Alice (Milla Jovovich) from the first film is in a containment facility, and awakens to realize that she has been injected with the T-virus, but it had a different effect on her - she's not a zombie, but she has superhuman strength. She escapes and tries to find a way out of the city, along with police officer Jill (Sienna Guillory), Umbrella military man Carlos (Oded Fehr) and civilian L.J. (Mike Epps).
They find out from an Umbrella doctor that they're about to level the city, and the only way out is for them to find his young daughter who is trapped in the school, so they go find her. Meanwhile, Umbrella releases their most deadly agent - Nemesis - a huge hulking bulk who's part man, part monster, and is almost unstoppable.
Sure, there's not a lot of character development or worthy acting, but a movie like this isn't designed for that. It's designed to bring the audience some thrills and action, and it delivers in that aspect, because I was quite entertained.
Milla Jovovich appears to be the new action heroine (like Kate Beckinsale and Angelia Jolie), but she's more underrated. She needs a film that both audiences and critics will hail as superior, and she'll finally receive the recognition she deserves.