Franchise: Apocalypse.

Rating: 6/10 (30 March 2005)

No. We do not need a third movie in this franchise. The filmmakers are far too obsessed with referencing the games and showing off Milla's very nice nipples to make good movies. This one is about as good as the first, which is not very good at all. The acting, except a few bit players(Jared Harris especially) is mediocre. The scares are recycled, the plot twists are boring, the nemesis looks like the wussy brother of the Chatterer cenobite, and the zombies are not scary, or cool, or fun. I can not finish playing Resident Evil, because zombies are the only thing that scares me. This movie can't even duplicate a fraction of the game's creepiness. It is a poor substitute for the game. It can't even nail the single scariest aspect of zombies, claustrophobia. You can't escape them, because there is nowhere to go. This movie negates that by giving the people a "safe" zone. As Tom Hanks would say, there is no "safe" zone in zombie movies. This is a poor man's Romero movie and should be the end of this series of films.