Night Time in the City

Rating: 2/10 (30 March 2005)

Milla Jovovich is back as Alice in this pedestrian sequel to a pedestrian original. Alice breaks from her hibernation to walk into Raccoon City amidst all the turmoil going on in a city ravaged by a disease turning the dead into fighting machines. The Umbrella Corporation manages to close the city gates and has plans to test its newest creation/invention/experiment Nemesis. What takes place? You know the drill: lots of killing, outlandish, excessive special effects, lots of high kicks and stand offs between Nemesis and Alice, Diogenes holding a lantern looking for a real actor and coming up short, and the thinnest, most threadbare plot imaginable. I didn't like Resident Evil uno, and I found dos to be void of any of the few merits the first one was able to extol. At least in the first one, director Paul Anderson was able to create some menace and mood - as if a real threat was going on. This director, Alexander Witt, fails to achieve that. This film is loaded with clichés from the opening scene to the very end. I again will say that it has a nice look to it but is void of any, and I mean any, real substance whatsoever. Not letting Anderson off to lightly, he wrote this vacuum of thought.