Fun!

Rating: 8/10 (10 September 2004)

RE: Apocalypse is about what I expected, your garden variety sizzling hot women with guns shooting zombies movie. It won't be one of the top contenders for the Oscars this year. Just get a big bag of popcorn extra butter, turn off the brain for awhile, and enjoy! It was a great movie to cap off the end of the summer season. I had a few minor logical problems with the (simple) plot. And the director/cinematographer chose to use that extremely close/blurry camera, jumpy-cut editing style which seems to be in vogue right now (see Bourne Supremacy), which made some of the hand-to-hand fighting difficult and dizzying to follow. I detected an homage or two to other zombie flicks, but it is hard to tell as this genre is full of classic clichés (by now, everyone knows the "rules" of a zombie movie, just as everyone knows the "rules" of a vampire film).
I liked that the story picked up right where the last one ended i.e. the scene where Milla Jovovich walks out of the hospital half-clothed and grabs a shotgun out of a police car in the chaotic ruins of Racoon City.
Sienna Gullory, the other female lead, is mesmerizing on-screen as she very much looks and acts like a video game character (a super, smokin' hot video game character BTW). Michelle Rodriguez in the last film did the tactical commando/gunplay stuff better, IMO, but I'm not complaining.