*CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS* Umm...not a good movie.

Rating: 5/10 (10 September 2004)

Saw Resident Evil: Apocalypse tonight. It didn't suck, but it certainly wasn't great. Paul W.S. Anderson needs to stop writing for a while. Just stop. AvP sucked and now this. Everything he writes is glaringly, obviously, PAINFULLY the same.
I liked the first movie. It was atmospheric and chock a block full of zombies. This was...not. There are a few zombies, but you don't see any make-up effects, the actor's direction is horrible, but the action direction is great. Lots and lots of good action...but that's not what I want to see in a Resident Evil movie. I want to see zombies and Lickers (only three?!) and even though the writing in the first movie was lacking, this one lacked any sense of intelligence.
*MAJOR SPOILERS IN THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH*
How in the hell did the corpses in the cemetery get infected? How did the dogs get infected? How did the infection get from the mansion which is supposed to be far away from the (walled) city all the way into the heart of Racoon City without, oh I don't know, being seen? The brain is the key, destroy the brain, you destroy the zombie. If the doctor's brain was already destroyed (when he was shot by the Major Asshole in charge), how did he come back?!?!?! Why did he infect himself with the T-virus? He was still in the wheelchair so if he were actually testing the virus out on himself, and it didn't work, would he not have considered the whole thing a failure?
*END SPOILERS*
Alexander Witt should stick to second unit work...that is where his true talent lies. Or, perhaps he should find a partner and have them direct the actors while he focuses on the action. Milla Jovovich was good...the rest of the cast was not so good.
And Nemesis. Ugh. I'm glad it wasn't CGI, but the bloody thing looks so fake and...well, it needed some shine. And those boots were ridiculous. They looked like moon shoes. And I laughed when Nemesis and Alice fight at the end. *shakes head*
I dunno. I hope it does well so that George A Romero doesn't lose financing for Land of the Dead and we can get some good zombie movies back into the marketplace instead of poorly written tripe like this.
Ugh...the more I think about it, the more I dislike it. If it weren't for the fact that there are quite a few good zombie scenes (zombies are my favourite "movie monster"), then I would most definitely downgrade it to Suck.