Cleveronix A different way of telling a story

WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

The Movie Diorama The quest for mediocrity continues with this direct sequel. Despite the change of director and a full on charge to the action genre, it still falls short of being a good film. Alice wakes up, Raccoon City is ravaged by abandonment, she walks around until she stumbles across Jill Valentine. They are tasked with extracting a young girl out of the quarantined city before it becomes decimated in order to fight back against the T-Virus. Would I class this as an improvement over its predecessor? Tough to say. Most fans of the series will say this is the best instalment, and I can see why. Jill Valentine, despite Sienna Guillory looking like she is cosplaying, does kick ass and gives Alice a run for her money. Two strong female protagonists is refreshing to see. The stunts were well executed, including Alice running down a building whilst being attached to a cable. Nemesis looked great, although unfortunately incredibly underused and not nearly as threatening as he should be. If you played the game, you would know he is relentless. In this, not so much. The horror aspect obviously did not work in the first instalment, so completely shifting this into action gear was more suited. Milla Jovovich gives an enjoyably daring performance as we watch her grow into an action star. It is unfortunate that the story is somewhat underwhelming...again. Point A to point B to point C. Roll credits. The way the seperate parties unite feels far too coincidental. Although really do we care? They are so one dimensional that if any meet their demise, I feel nothing. The fight choreography has this generic annoying sound effect for every punch and kick. The over reliance of tilted camera angles makes Alexander Witt's directing style feel amateurish. Also, the full five minute expositional introduction was a waste of time that could've been spent developing the characters. Again, the series remains mediocre but somewhat watchable.

xamtaro The first RESIDENT EVIL movie was a scary fun romp. It's key downside was having nothing to do with the original video games outside of a few characters designs and settings. RESIDENT EVIL APOCALYPSE is the sequel and tries to right the ship by introducing us to some of the characters from the actual video games. Video game characters Jill Valentine, Carlos Olivero and A few others are finally adapted into live action and the results are amazing. The movie finally feels like an actual adaptation, taking the setting of RE2 and 3, as well as many plot points and faithful recreations of key scenes.The movie starts when the Umbrella corporation opens the underground facility known as the Hive in which the T-Virus outbreak occurs. The virus spreads to nearby Raccoon City (which looks a lot like Toronto Canada) turning the dead into zombies and showing us the chilling societal degeneration into chaos. Amidst this chaos, Umbrella head scientist Doctor Charles Ashford loses his Daughter Angela during a frantic evacuation. As local armed forces attempt to stem the tide of undead, Umbrella corp releases a newly weaponised Alice, having been granted superhuman abilities. In a desperate bid to reunite with his Daughter, dr Ashford manipulates Jill, Carlos and Alice together to rescue his Angela. But a new bioweapon is loose in the city. The hulking, chaingun toting Nemesis. Alexander Witt in his debut role as director eschews Paul WS Anderson's claustrophobic filming style of the previous movie and instead ops to mimic the "camera" placement of the video games. Gone too are the scares of the first movie replaced by a straight forward action movie plot. The cinematography is crisp and clear, showing the action in full. But that also means it shows some poorly crafted special effects in full.The infamous cgi Lickers are back, though now half enshrouded in darkness so they do not look as bad as before. On the other end of the spectrum is the Nemesis bioweapon, a hulking behemoth with a mini gun that looks exactly like a big guy in a suit and rubber mask. His platform heels, obviously meant to make the actor look taller, are laughable and makes this lumbering leather bound lunk move stiffly. He looks exactly like he does in the game though, which I guess is another plus, and he is meant to hunt down our main characters. Not that he exudes much air of menace or as if it the audience would care about the main characters.Protagonist Alice (Milla Jovovich) has developed a hint of personality here which can be summarised as "badass lady". That is it. Still as shallow as a pan with an abrasive snarky attitude, Alice is near invincible with her superhuman agility, strength and cunning, taking the spotlight away from others in what is blatantly becoming Paul Ws Anderson's fan fiction. Which is a pity as Carlos Olivero and Jill Valentine make for much more appealing protagonists. Sienna Guilroy looks exactly like her game counterpart from the outfit to the way she walks and holds a gun. An intriguing backstory is hinted at but never developed on, instead cutting back to Alice since she is the main character.While I do give points to RESIDENT EVIL APOCALYPSE for being an action packed zombie blockbuster with a plot hearkening back to the shallow 80s macho action movies, its underdeveloped but wholly more appealing side characters and insistence on a bland protagonist does hurt the enjoyment. It is a mash up of my 2 Favourite genre of films and more faithful to the games yet it is plagued by Low Budget special effects and horrible antagonists.

adonis98-743-186503 It won't win Best Picture or turn into a classic sequel but Resident Evil: Apocalypse is much better than the original film was. Milla Jovovich has the best scene in the movie where she breaks threw the window with a motorcycle inside the church she's also a much better improved character in this film than the previous one cause she actually does something. Valentine and Carlos are pretty damn good characters we also get Nemesis which isn't cgi and i actually liked his look it's from the videogames anyways so it's good. Also Jared Harris is in this film for some reason and he's pretty nice. I really felt bad for that reporter tho she had the worst death in this movie. Let's talk about the problems tho some people might not like this whole magic powers of Alice and i totally get it but we already understood that something was going on from the ending of the first film, the cgi is still kinda messed up and Mike Epps why every single time there must be a comedian in a film? didn't we already done that back in 1995 with Judge Dredd? No Comedy in movies like this that isn't funny. Other than that Resident Evil 2 is a much better movie than the previous one.

George Roots (GeorgeRoots) In this chapter of the film series, it becomes painfully clear that the franchise isn't going to treat the audience like adults.Sure it has a lot of action scenes to "up the ante", and they give the fans a little more what they want. But it all seems such a waste on what they should've been doing in such a large city. They have a chance to portray the epidemic in such a way, yet they resort to keeping it all contained in buildings. Rarely do you see any large hoards of zombies outside and where the makeup on villain "Nemesis" was fantastic, the "walking tank" is reduced to a former good guy. Pardon my language, but what a "F@%* Y!$" to the fans and one of the series best villain.God bless Milla Jovovich for actually trying, and Sienna Guillory was not bad as Jill Valentine. She looks the part, but every time you see her she drops an F-bomb (I think I'm in love). What better way to cap off all this sadness by adding comic relief Mike Epps (Whose actually pretty funny), and wasting the effort of confident talents Oded Fehr, Thomas Kretschmann, Jared Harris and Iain Glen.To be completely honest, the best thing about this movie was the superb teaser trailer directed by Marcus Nispel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRnp4UPI-Qk). It's one of my favourite marketing trailers ever, and I've made it a personal mission to show as many people as possible.Final Verdict: Just one great big missed opportunity. Has anyone ever watched a George A. Romero Film? 4/10.