Mindless excitement

Rating: 6/10 (16 September 2004)

Listen - Resident Evil: Apocalypse is what it is: a sci-fi adventure made by people more interested in visuals, battle sequences and innovative photography than in plot or character development. But that's okay because we don't always go to movies for that sort of thing; sometimes we go just for mindless fun and that's what Resident Evil offers. (SPOILERS) With the addition of the Nemesis creature and Jill Valentine, the movie draws a better parallel to the video game than the original movie did (the Nemesis was perfect in that regard). While the original appeared to be little more than an extended music video, Apocalypse did pretty well in putting a storyline together. There were huge lapses in continuity and logic (movie logic, that is) and a fair portion of the dialogue was stupid, but I'm not afraid to admit that the movie was pretty exciting - and much better than the original. The director didn't seem to know when to end the movie, but he left it open ended and I for one wouldn't mind seeing it continue.