Resident Evil: Apocalypse

Plot synopsis:
After the contamination of The Hive in the previous film, the Umbrella Corporation unwisely sends in a research team to reopen the complex and investigate the incident, since no one survived except Alice and Matt Addison, both of whom were imprisoned and experimented on. When the team reprograms and opens the sealed blast doors, they are slaughtered by the massive crowd of T-virus infected zombies.
With the zombies released, they reach Raccoon City, spreading the infection among the general population. Two days after the infection has spread to the surface, Umbrella, now worried about a possible worldwide contamination, quarantines Raccoon City and establishes a security perimeter around it, also evacuating all important Umbrella personnel. However, a girl named Angela Ashford (Sophie Vavasseur), daughter of the Level 6 Umbrella researcher and T-virus creator Dr. Charles Ashford (Jared Harris), goes missing after an Umbrella security car transporting her out of Raccoon City suffers a traffic accident.
Alice awakens in the deserted Raccoon City hospital attached to wiring, and after unstrapping herself, she manages to exit her room. Finding no one in the hospital, she wanders outside only to find the city a ghost town, overrun by zombies. She arms herself with a shotgun from a police car and wanders the city looking for supplies. She is constantly disturbed by visions of a man, who was revealed to be experimenting on her; she now has superhuman agility and strength.
While Umbrella is evacuating civilians at the Raven's Gate Bridge, the only exit out of the town, disgraced police officer Jill Valentine (Sienna Guillory), confers with Sergeant Payton Wells (Razaaq Adoti), her old ally, after hearing about the infection being true. However, the T-virus infects a man having a heart attack, turning him into a zombie that bites Payton at the city gates. Umbrella's supervisor and the head of the Raccoon City contamination operation, Major Timothy Cain (Thomas Kretschmann), worried that the T-virus has reached the gates, seals the exit and orders his soldiers to fire over the crowd's heads, scaring them back into the city.
Elsewhere, Carlos Olivera (Oded Fehr) and other Umbrella soldiers link up with Special Tactics And Rescue Squad (S.T.A.R.S.) units to defend against an onslaught of zombies. Their positions are overrun, causing Carlos and his team to retreat with a bitten Yuri (Stefen Hayes), who turns into a zombie and infects Carlos before being killed. Jill, Payton, and news reporter Terri Morales (Sandrine Holt) lock themselves in a church, where a panicked man is also hiding. Inspecting the church, Jill finds a priest who has been feeding other people to his zombified sister. They soon find the church is full of Lickers. The priest and the panicked man are killed, but Jill, Payton, and Terri are saved at the last minute by the heavily armed Alice.
In the meantime, Umbrella dispatches their Nemesis Program to fight the zombies in order to test him. When Nemesis encounters a surviving citizen, L.J. (Mike Epps), and members of S.T.A.R.S., the latter open fire on Nemesis. Nemesis guns the team down but spares L.J.'s life when he drops his weapons. Meanwhile, Dr. Ashford has refused extraction, since Angela is missing, and soon discovers she is hiding in her school. He hacks into the city's CCTV system, uses it to contact Alice and the other survivors, and offers to arrange their evacuation in exchange for their rescuing Angela. Alice, seeing no other escape, accepts the offer. Payton, Terri, and Jill initially refuse, intending to hide until backup arrives, but Alice explains her choice - as the contamination cannot be controlled, a nuclear bomb will be dropped on Raccoon City, completely destroying it, with a cover story of a meltdown of the local nuclear power plant.
Seeing no choice, the others join Alice in heading for the school. However, Nemesis appears and shoots Payton dead. Alice separates and assaults him, but she is overwhelmed and forced into retreat. Jill and Terri make it to the school, and they pick up L.J. on the way. Inside the school, they find Carlos and Nicholai (Zack Ward), acting on the same offer. After encounters with zombie dogs and infected children who kill Nicholai and Terri, Alice saves the group again, and they find Angela. Angela reveals she was injected with the T-virus; she was ill with a genetic disease and forced to walk on crutches. Dr. Ashford created the T-virus to allow her to walk, and he created the anti-virus because of the T-virus' potential for mutations, but the virus was then impounded and weaponized by Umbrella. Alice uses Terri's video camera to record her story and injects Carlos with the anti-virus carried by Angela, to keep her infection in check.
Dr. Ashford gives Alice the location of the extraction point at City Hall, where the helicopter waits. The group makes it to the rendezvous but is cornered by Major Cain, who has caught wind of Dr. Ashford's intentions and is holding him prisoner. All but Alice are restrained, and seconds later Nemesis appears; the helicopter is actually Nemesis' extraction before the bomb detonation. Cain commands Alice to fight Nemesis. Alice refuses, but when Cain shoots Dr. Ashford dead in cold-blood and threatens the others, she relents and fights Nemesis, impaling him on a pole. Defeating Nemesis, she realizes he is Matt Addison, her friend and one of the survivors in The Hive. As he was infected by a Licker and started to mutate, he was placed in the program and experimented on.
Her stand and refusing to kill him rekindles a trace of Matt's former humanity; he and Alice join forces and attack the Umbrella forces. Meanwhile, Carlos and Jill cut themselves free from their bonds and join the fight. Nemesis is killed, protecting Alice from an exploding helicopter. Cain, having been knocked out in an attempt to flee during the fight, is thrown out of the helicopter by Alice and is left to be devoured by a horde of encroaching zombies, including Dr. Ashford. As the survivors escape in the remaining chopper, the nuclear missile detonates over the City Hall. The helicopter is caught in the blast wave and crashes. As the helicopter falls, a metal pole comes loose and is flung towards Angela. Alice moves in front of Angela and is impaled, saving her but mortally wounding herself.
Some hours after the explosion, Umbrella employees locate the helicopter's crash site, deep in the Arklay Mountains. There, they find Alice's body, badly burned; the others are nowhere to be found. The media later shows that Terri's footage has been shown to the press, but despite Carlos and Jill's best efforts, Umbrella promotes a fake story about a nuclear power plant explosion near the city with ease. The infection is characterized as a hoax, and the media announces that Jill and Carlos are wanted by the police for questioning.
Three weeks later, in Umbrella's research facility in Detroit, Alice awakens. Led by Umbrella scientist Dr. Alexander Isaacs (Iain Glen), the doctors begin questioning her. Soon, she recalls events from Raccoon City and before. She realizes that the man who appeared in her visions is Dr. Isaacs. She attacks him, fights her way out of the facility, and makes her way outside, only to be surrounded by more Umbrella guards holding her at gunpoint. Suddenly, Jill, Carlos, Angela, and L.J. arrive, disguised as Umbrella employees. Carlos shows the guards an order placing her in his custody. Dr. Isaacs is shown allowing them to leave, and then saying that "Project Alice" is activated. A close-up of Alice's eye shows a flashing Umbrella logo, revealing she is under their control. The scene then pulls away from the car she is in and into orbit, where an Umbrella satellite is seen.

Tags: violence, boring, murder, flashback

Review:
'Apocalypse' suffices much more as an action movie than it does as a horror film, and it struggles to keep interest, even for someone who has faithfully played the video games.
After being captured by the Umbrella Corporation at the end of the first film, almost-sole-survivor Milla Jovovich (the only supermodel in the world who you can take seriously as an action heroine) wakes up in an abandoned laboratory in Raccoon City to find that the zombie-animating "t-virus" has spread to the surface.
Much shooting/fighting/exploding ensues, and - just like in the first film - the mysterious cliffhanger ending leaves things wide open for another sequel.Probably because it's based on a Japanese video game, this movie isn't afraid to embrace the clichés that Hollywood's spent the last decade or so trying to avoid.
Like the timelessly cheesy horror/action flicks of John Carpenter, the Resident Evil franchise throws realism and political correctness to the wind and just has fun pitting Pretty Girls With Big Guns against Ugly Monsters With Big Teeth.
Having seen all these movies numerous times, I now have come to the realization that Resident Evil Apocalypse is my most favorite in the franchise.
They have to confront several Zombies starving of meat and a nasty and evil Corporation chief.The film begins as ¨Omega man¨ movie , as a city without people , totally uninhabited .
The rest of the movie is one long fight scene with zombie dogs, slobbering creatures and a big monster with a rocket launcher all wanting to waste the killer babe squad.While "Resident Evil 2" is light on plot, it is heavy on kills, explosions and various other forms of mayhem.
Resident Evil Apocalypse is a good movie if measured in terms of action, explosions and atmosphere.
Despite what others say, out of all the six movies in the series, Resident Evil Apocalypse is the only film which came close to what the games were.You see a lot more lickers, zombies and of course Nemesis himself.
So I rented the movies yesterday and watched them last night and I have to say that I was a little surprised about the rating on IMDb, I really loved Apocalypse, I think I liked it better than the first Resident Evil.
In Resident Evil: Apocalypse we have more action and in my opinion a very awesome story, one that is even up there I would say with George Romero's zombie stories.We start where we have left off where Alice has been left in the lab with her friend, Matt.
But she is with survivors: Jill Valentine, Carlos Oliviera, Captain Nicholai and they find a little girl, Angie Ashford who's dad Dr. Ashford is the man who created the virus and is being hunted down.Resident Evil: Apocalypse was very awesome to watch and it's a buy for me at least.
However, I thought that the plot and storyline followed the game pretty close (I being an absolute zombie and RE fanatic both of the games and the movies) I would have like to have seen more "zombie action" though I did think that this crew did a very good job with the Nemesis creature.
Resident Evil: Apocalypse has lots of action,Milla Jovovich still deserves much of the credit for the film's short-term success , for what people refer to as "star quality," perhaps nothing more is needed than the alluring oddity of her face, the widely-spaced cat's eyes and innocent animal look, fearless yet poignantly unprotected.
The filmmakers can count themselves lucky to have an actress who can conjure audience empathy out of nothing;this sequel has a pleasing B-movie insouciance, not to say incoherence: it's a film with little on its mind beyond giving the audience their money's worth of horror, action, moody industrial settings and hip Gothic attitude.
If you're into cerebral movies about the human condition, you'll want to find another way to spend a couple hours.Lovers of Zombie films and action flicks should like this fast paced sequel.Followed by Resident Evil: Extinction..
Meanwhile, Alice (Milla Jovovich), Jill Valentine (Sienna Guillory) and Carlos Oliviera (Oded Fehr) try to find Angela, the little daughter of Dr. Ashford (Jared Harris), who is trapped in Raccoon City, as the means to escape from the siege of the city.Although having a kind of prejudice against movies with lots explosions and special effects, I loved "Resident Evil: Apocalypse".
After seeing the first Resident Evil movie and liking it, I was expecting a whole lot more from this film, which I had been anticipating as soon as I found out they were going to make a sequel.
Resident Evil was first and foremost a horror movie, with zombies and other creatures and a bit of a sci-fi touch, a lot of story going on and a great addition to the mythos of the game, with a plot that tied in neatly and nicely provided more fictional background for the RE world.
However, it fell short on horror, which is one of the three main genres of the video game franchise that serves as the source material.The film shows how more evil Umbrella can get, and this is scary for the real world.
After watching the first Resident Evil, I've thought it to be the best zombie virus film I've seen.
Resident Evil is probably the hottest name in the zombie film industry, and by right.The screenplay and story are excellent, although the name is slightly misleading - the only place going through a "zombie apocalypse" is Raccoon City, not the entire world as the name (and the end scene in the first film) imply.
The success of the movie spawned a sequel, and as in the video game world, so often, the sequel is an overly-hyped, rushed-to-production mess like "Resident Evil: Apocalypse."The film begins roughly where the first one left off.
This movie takes off right after the first one and basically whats happened is the virus has gotten out into Raccon city and our favorite ass-kicking heroine Alice is back with a few new faces including Sienna Guillory who plays Jill Valentine another kick-ass girl, Oded Ferh who plays Carlos Olivera,and Mike Epps who plays L.J. Also there's a big bad mutated guy called Nemisis who wants to destroy them.
Don't be put off by the low rating on this page - its been dragged down by very pathetic fans of the games who despite the fact that it has been nearly five years since the release of the first movie still haven't come to terms with the films.This film does exactly what is expected of it - it's got two hot actresses in little clothing, good actions sequences, humor and the acting is good (especially for Milla), people who tell you otherwise are usually Game-Loving/Film-Hating.
As the immediate continuation of the story from the original RESIDENT EVIL, this film shows us the devastation unleashed upon Raccoon City, after a virus gets out and turns everyone into flesh-biting zombies.
Alice, who now seems to have attained superhuman powers, teams up with some soldiers with guns and attempts to fight her way through the living dead and back into normalcy.Resident evil 2 is intense and fast paced,a perfect action thriller.lot's of gun fights,karate sequences,explosions therefore a sweet action flick.the best thing is how the story is explained briefly but in detail then gets straight to the action.finally an action movie that realizes it's an action movie and doesn't try to be more than that.all in all a good movie,neat story,good acting,amazing action sequences,and a whole lot of fun.just two girls kicking some zombie @$$..
Resident Evil: Apocalypse is a great film that has a good cast which includes Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Oded Fehr, Thomas Kretschmann, Sophie Vavasseur, Razaaq Adoti, and Matthew G.
If you Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Oded Fehr, Thomas Kretschmann, the rest of the cast in the film, Resident Evil video games and the first film, Horror, Sci-Fi, Action, and interesting films then I strongly recommend you to see this film today!.
Fortunately enough, Resident Evil: Apocalypse does a great job of following up to the, in my opinion, very good first movie.The basic premise is the same; a lot of zombies that have been infected by the T-virus are out to get our heroes.
The difference is that this time they're out and about in Raccoon city, the city where The Hive from the first movie is located.Milla Jovovich again does a great job as Alice, with her this time is Jill Valentine, known from the video game, played by Sienna Guillory, whom also does a great job by the way.
Not that there's a lot of acting taking place, the better part of the movie the protagonists kill zombies, blow things up or perform death, and gravity, defying stunts.This is what makes this movie so good though; the over-the-top-with-tongue-in-cheek approach to the action.
the stories of classic video games such as Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, the game this movie is based on are butchered in this film.
Although both these ideas are full of potential, they're both streamlined into lame action set pieces and never used to full advantage to creep the audience out.The ending is the worst for the entire film, in which Nemesis joins up with our heroes to fight the evil Umbrella Corporation.
Resident Evil: Apocalypse is the best movie-video game I ever seen.The first Resident Evil is little bit disappointed for me.The SFX is lame and awkward but the character and storyline is OK.However the rental and sales for RE DVD was on top which it make benefit for the studios.finally,They made this RE : Apocalypse with more budget than the first RE.This movie have 100% influenced with the game from action,screenplay,and characters.I'm a fan for resident evil games,I played since the first release RE on PS1 in 1996.Not only the RE fans gonna like this movie.people who is not play the game or don't know RE,they gonna like it.because the movie gonna told to the audience about the first happening.Don't trust any movie critic who said this movie is bad.They just don't know cause the critic rate movie if the movie have emotionally like crying,cheating or soap opera stuff,etc!!I saw many movie-video game like double dragon(the worst),street fighter(the worst),final fantasy(sleepy movie),mortal kombat,etc.This one is very entertaining,if you have a mini home theater or big one.This movie will wake you up all the time from beginning until end..
Great fun for everyone, except the zombies.The director does a wonderful job of making the movie look exactly like the video game it is based on.
I thought Resident Evil: Apocalypse was good because when you watch a movie like Dawn of the Dead (2004) you only see the Massacre of the city and everyone dying without putting up a fight.
The additions to the cast are all welcome changes from the last movie as the person who plays Jill Valentine both looks and acts like the character from the game.
Milla is a goddess playing Alice and the decision to include game-based characters such as Jill, Carlos and Nicholai couldn't have come at a better time.
I really enjoyed the movie, but let me fill you in on where I'm coming from:1) I like the Resident Evil video games.
And ladies, I know I've gone on about the lovely Milla, but if you have the slightest interest in zombie movies or you just like fast-paced action with a serving of gore, then there's plenty for you to enjoy as well.In terms of pure entertainment value this falls between 3.5 and 4 marks.
She also come across a small group of survivors led by officer Jill Valentine that she teams up with after being contacted by doctor who wants them to find his daughter and in exchange he'll get them out before Umbrella nukes their mishap.Now this felt like a video game, but that doesn't mean its actually a good film.
As in the first movie, the universe apparently revolves around Paul W.S. Anderson's wife, Milla "ALICE" Jovovich, who now has mutant abilities.The zombies in this movie, which is why a lot of people like me would come to see a movie like this for, are perhaps the greatest crime in this film.
Excellent action - horror sequel in the Resident Evil franchise almost good as the original Apocalypse kicks ass.
Also the zombies in the city were cool because it reminded me of Resident evil 2.Plot: Alice (Milla Jovovich), who struggles to find out what the Umbrella corporation has done to her as she leads survivors in an escape from a Raccoon City infested with the dead.
Directed by Alexander Witt, the film features several characters from the video game series including Jill Valentine (Sienna Guillory), Nicholai Ginovaeff (Zack Ward), and Carlos Olivera (Oded Fehr).After narrowly escaping the horrors of the underground Hive facility, Alice (Milla Jovovich) is quickly thrust back into a war raging above ground between the living and the Undead.
I love the bad ass song The End of Heartache by Killswitch Engage and Vermillion by Slipknot those two movies kicks ass.Resident Evil: Apocalypse is a 2004 apocalyptic fiction action horror film directed by Alexander Witt, from a screenplay written by producer Paul W.
I don't think it is as good as part 3 or the Original itself, but I do believe that this film is top notch, going for a different style.The plot is basically the same where the same character, Alice teams up with some survivors and fights the same corrupt bimbos who let out the virus in the first place.
By Looking At Boards, Reviews, Hell Even Trailers To Resident Evil Movies You Know What To Expect; Violence, Violence And Lots Of Violence...Plus Zombies And Milla Jovovich.This Is Not As Good As Its Predecessor But So Much Happens In This Movie Its Unskipable.The Simple Plot: Infection Breaks Out In Racoon City & A Group Of People Find A Way To Escape Before A Bomb Can Wipe Out The Infection.I Do Know What The Game Is Like And I Do Know The Hatred Fans Of The Game Have For This Series Yet I Still Ask "Why?" If They Can Name One Other VG Movie That Is Better Or More Importantly One Which Is Descent(Besides This) Then I'll Shut Up Or Even Wipe This Whole Paragraph From The Review.Overall When You Watch This Don't Expect "Persona" Just Sit Back Relax And Let The Movie Do The Rest..
Overall Resident Evil Apocalypse is a decent sci-fi thriller with plenty of action, amazing special effects, some suspense, humor, and good performances by the cast who make this second film in the series worth watching but it could've been better..
In this sequel to 2002's video game adaptation of Resident Evil.The virus has escaped to the city and Alice has escaped with abnormal abilities and is aiding a group of survivors left for dead by the deceitful Umbrella Corporation who plan to nuke it to get rid of and cover up the zombie epidemic by all means necessary.Resident Evil Apocalypse is the perfect popcorn movie one of which you cannot take seriously at all.It's pure entertainment and it knows it is and it delivers what it promises to contain, a rush of non-stop action.The movie strays further away from the games but adds two existing game characters Jill Valentine and Carlos Oliviera.This movie is meant as a big budget action film it's supposed to be over the top and it's supposed to be a special effects extravaganza so of course critics will over-analyze it and label it as garbage but those critics don't know how to have a good time.The elements of cinema here are actually very good aside from one thing.The acting is awesome a big improvement from the first Milla Jovovich is more intense, Oded Fehr is as cool as ever, Sienna Guillory is bad @$$, and Mike Epps is a riot.The visual effects are no longer grainy and cold looking but they're sleek, glossy, with a Tim Burton kind of feel by which i mean a lot of night settings but with lots of various colours in the night settings.The dialogue is just brutal, it's unbelievably cliché and not in a purposeful, campy way it's just plain old bad dialogue and it totally distracts you from the films mood.Aside from that there's more adrenaline pumped action, better gun brawls, amazing martial arts choreography, great explosions, and realistic gore.The plot is really interesting you really want to know the secrets of Umbrella and once again were are left with a giant cliffhanger that gets us looking forward to the third movie in theatres September 2007.Overall I have to say taking the film in a much lighter and humorous tone made it far easier to enjoy the over the top action and entertaining storyline unfold.It's obviously just made for fun, there's no uplifting message just pure brain off entertainment.Paul WS Anderson steps down as director but still contributes as writer which is very evident as everything else seemed to improve but the dialogue got worse lol.See it for the special effects and don't expect a brilliant adaptation of Resident Evil 2 or a terrifying zombie flick like Dawn Of The Dead expect to be entertained and you will be..
ACTION---------------------check ~ cool guns and fighting, perhaps a bit "chop"py (no pun intended).SPECIAL FX-----------------check ~ great-looking creatures and cool explosionsPLOT-----------------------check ~ great events with Alice and nice incorporation of game charactersHUMOR----------------------check ~ OMG, Mike Epps cracks me up.GOOD DIRECTION-------------check ~ Everyone was convincing.HOT CHICKS-----------------check ~ Sienna Guilloroy, Milla Jovovich...
For those of you who have never played Resident Evil I think if you like horror and zombies and action you will also like this movie to some degree..
I love the resident evil games, and I think this movie was great.