GTA, mother****er!

Rating: 3/10 (20 December 2004)

A few hours before we began watching Residen Evil: Apocalypse, I was actually pretty hyped. I saw the first movie 2 years ago and in my opinion it was a good movie for it's genre. About a year ago I saw the trailer for it's sequel: It worked out as a sort of cosmetic commercial which had a very creepy sterile feeling to it. This trailer led me to believe Apocalypse was gonna be a nice horror once again... Man, was I misguided. This movie picks up where the first one has finished. Alice and Matt were taken by Umbrella and both of them got injected with the T-virus. Alice somehow managed to escape and found her way to Raccoon city where citizens are trying to evacuate town because the virus has spread around town. In the first 10 minutes already I was getting irritated by the amateurism of the director Alexander Witt. During action sequences he changes his camera angle so often that most of the time, due to the large cast with everyone having their own name, you'll just don't understand what actually happened. For example, there is a scene in the church where Jill Valentine had to inspect something in the room where the priest lives. She finds a zombie and gets attacked..end of scene. Only seconds later you'll see Jill running away from the tongue creatures I believe, without knowing what happened back there with the zombie. All zombie sequences by the way are worked out poorly and they don't form a threat to anyone except those who are extremely stupid. What made the Resident Evil series a masterful game? I would say the cold stellar atmosphere and the sound of silence. But it is the shortage of ammo and weapons that make the games challenging. Even though the movie slightly stayed true to the game's storyline, the director obviously never played RE before and must've thought it's a brainless zombie shooter. Well, that's pretty much how this movie was. GTA meets Lara Croft meets ANOTHER Lara Croft meets House of the Dead and they happened to come across Nemesis. Never ever have I been so disappointed (okay exaggerating), but I mean what I say and I say what I mean. This is by far one of the worst Hollywood movies ever made and I really hope Alexander Witt would from now on just watch movies instead of making them. 2.5/10