Resident Evil: Apocalypse

Rating: 1/10 (6 April 2007)

The first film based on the popular survival horror video games series was great, one of the only good films in fact based on a video game, but this sequel, the first of many to follow, is absolute trash. Basically it picks up where the first film left off, well, just before Alice (The Fifth Element's Milla Jovovich) left the hospital after those experiments, and Raccoon City has been closed for risk of the T-Virus infection getting out. Within the city, along with Alice, are other survivors, in Lara Croft get-up Jill Valentine (Sienna Guillory), Carlos Olivera (Oded Fehr), Terri Morales (Sandrine Holt) and L.J. (Mike Epps), but of course they are surrounded by the bloodthirsty undead also. The only person who can help them get out is the creator of the T-Virus, Dr. Ashford (Jared Harris), who makes them a deal to get them out if they find his surviving daughter, Angie Ashford (Sophie Vavasseur), she is the little girl that appeared previously as the artificial intelligence hologram image of The Hive. The villain is a very stupid German or something, and he has his own creature called Nemesis carrying high-tech weaponry, you find out that the creature is in fact the only other survivor from the first film, Matt Addison (eric Mabius) transformed. Jovovich is still cool, and continues in all the films to follow, and you can't complain about the makeup or some of the twists, but the stunts and most character dialogue is ridiculous, and it is not as fast-paced as the original zombie movie, in its entirety it is just a bad science-fiction horror sequel. Very, very poor!