Not bad, worth seeing, could be better with polishing

Rating: 7/10 (11 September 2004)

Resident Evil: Apocalypse
I got back a little bit ago from seeing Resident Evil: Apocalypse, here are my thoughts on it (spoilers ahead):
OK, first off I have to say I like the first one better. This RE:A is a bigger film than the original, but the first RE seemed better thought out. I think it's worth seeing if you liked the first one, but you have to suspend you disbelief a lot more (I know, I'm talking about a film with zombies, bear with me). Things I did not like:
1. Ebert pointed this out, why the f**k did the STARS guys not try to shoot Nemesis in the head when all the body shots failed? 2. Jill Valentine: OK, the actress who played her is hot as hell, but some of her acting seemed very much the cliché 'tough chick' role. Maybe that was the director's decision. Also, why does a suspended cop have to dress like a hooker? I mean, it's hot but just does not seem right to fight the undead with so much easy to bite skin exposed. 3. Sometimes the Umbrella execs are mean just to be mean, why have Alice and Nemesis duke it out to see who is better? Keep both projects going, one for all out war and one for stealth projects. 4. The zombies coming out of the graves at the grave yard. First, I doubt the brain would be intact on many of them since they had been in the ground so long. Second, something with the strength of a human most likely could not claw through a casket, a vault liner and six feet of earth to get to the surface.
Things I liked:
1. Two cute female leads. 2. Alice having some superpowers was cool at times. 3. You see the little girl the Red Queen from the first film was based on. 4. Some of Mike Epps lines were great, even though he was typecast as the stereotypical 'wise ass black guy'.
All in all, not a bad film but the script could have used some more polishing.