Original opens the door for a good sequel

Rating: Null/10 (1 October 2004)

And promptly runs right down the crapper. While the original 'Resident Evil' was average at best, it at least had a thought process and an organized story to tell. 'Resident Evil: Apocalypse' has none of those features. Director Alexander Witt hopefully has a backup career ready to go, because this movie's herky-jerky style and horrific cinematography would embarrass even a 1st grade class.
Clearly, Witt and Paul WS Anderson loved '28 Days Later' as much as the rest of us, because this movie attempts to mimic the visual style of the British masterpiece, and falls flat on it's face.
Plot line concerns the efforts of Alice (Milla Jovovich), Jill Valentine (the lovely and leggy Sienna Guillory), and a team of Umbrella Corporation commandos (led by Oded Fehr's Carlos Olivera) as they attempt to escape the zombie overrun Raccoon City, and rescue the daughter (Angie Ashford) of one of Umbrella's top scientists.
Not too much to say about the acting in this oneother than its very poor at best. Milla Jovovich is game, and looks incredible, but is a pretty dull character. Same goes for Sienna Guillory's Jill Valentine. She's trying way too hard to be a badass, but looks incredible. Fehr's Olivera provides the ladies with some eye candy, but again, couldn't act his way out of a paper bag with a flashlight and a map.
Direction was, again, horrible. The few interesting things that do happen in this movie happen so fast you can't tell or care what's happening. Lots and lots of rip-offs from far superior horror classics further mar this already terrible film.
This is a bad movie that threatens a bad sequel. Fans were expecting 'Apocalypse' to surpass the original in terms of action, gore and story. Well, the action is thereSPOILER ALERT..culminating in a WWF style smackdown between Alice and Nemesis at the end. SPOILERS OVER
There is good cheesy and there is bad cheesy.and even Chester himself would agree, when you're this cheesy, it ain't easy..to watch that is.
1 out of 5