Really Surprised!

All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

This review contains spoilers.Resident Evil: Apocalypse is the sequel to 2002's Resident Evil. The movie is a follow-up to the original with Alice waking up in an abandoned hospital in Racoon City. The T-Virus has been unleashed on the city and Alice along with any survivors must make an attempt to escape the city before its destruction.Resident Evil: Apocalypse has fun action scenes with its larger scope and fun stunts. The movie unleashes the T-Virus on a city, and the scope is much grander in this movie. There are more zombies and bio-weapons across the city. People that enjoy the larger scope and action will enjoy this motion picture. The higher budget in this movie is spent on the action and effects.Resident Evil: Apocalypse like the previous Resident Evil is based on the video game series. This movie is based on parts of the second and third game. The movie uses the Nemesis character from the third game. Nemesis is the result of one of the characters being infected from the first movie. This was not a good adaptation of the Nemesis character as he did not feel as scary as the Nemesis character in the video game. Nemesis is controlled by The Umbrella Corporation and he only kills when he feels like it. This was a bad decision since Nemesis seemed like a joke in this movie.The Umbrella Corporation are a laughable villain in Resident Evil: Apocalypse. Somehow the corporation has full power over a United States city. They are able to control Nemesis and even send their own mercenaries on a suicide mission. The Umbrella Corporation does not have a clear goal in this plot. They are obstructions to the goals of the main characters.The scenes in this movie are fun to watch but are ultimately superfluous. The movie could easily be one hour but the superfluous scenes increase the run-time. One of these scenes is Nemesis engaging S.T.A.R.S members to show the effectiveness of Nemesis. This is not necessary as Nemesis is confronted later by the main characters. Resident Evil: Apocalypse is filled with scenes like these.Alice is also a very favored character in this sequel. She is not expanded upon and the movie suffers from it. The first movie has told the audience everything they need to know about this character.Overall, Resident Evil: Apocalypse is hard to recommended. The movie is not good but it is fun. I would recommend Resident Evil: Apocalypse to fans of the video games that enjoy mindless action. Action junkies that are looking for something with more substance should look elsewhere.

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.

Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) is an excellent sequel that follows the roots to the first film. This one and the first one are the best films in the franchise, it is not so good as the first one but it is close. I love this film to death and it is the last good film that I love. This time Resident Evil is directed by Alexander Witt and this was his first film he directed and his only film he ever directed. He works more on Camera and Electrical Department before he went and directed this movie. I can say Alexander Witt was awesome, he knew what was he doing and he did a really excellent job directing this movie and he directed perfectly. Milla Jovovich did return as fierce Alice and she is fabulous as always and Paul W.S. Anderson also returned as writer and producer. We have now a new cast Sienna Guillory and Oded Fehr and no one returns from the first movie. Apocalypse I love as a guilty pleasure because there were some things I did like about it: The girl who played Jill (Sienna Guillory) was pretty good with what she had to do. Oded Fehr as Carlos was awesome probably the biggest bad ass in the film series. 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. As the city is locked down under quarantine, Alice joins a small band of elite soldiers, led by Valentine (Sienna Guillory, Love, Actually) and Carlos (Oded Fehr, The Mummy Returns), enlisted to rescue the missing daughter of Dr. Ashford, the creator of the mutating T-virus. Its a heart-pounding race against time as the group faces off against hordes of blood- thirsty zombies, stealthy Lickers, mutant canines and the most sinister foe yet. Written and produced by the visionary director of Resident Evil, Paul W. S. Anderson (Alien Vs. Predator) and directed by Alexander Witt, Resident Evil: Apocalypse is a superior sci-fi suspense sequel.All three Resident Evils are wonderful pieces of work. They aren't just like every other zombie movie, they really have plots. And they are really suspenseful and just plain awesome. Rocket launchers, guns, zombies, villains trying to destroy the world. This movie rocks so much its not funny the action is just perfect not to gory not to weak its a perfect movie, this film is a great zombie film with exceptional graphics and fight scenes. There isn't many trilogy's that can say they didn't become over rated and less entertaining as time went on, this trilogy and film is amazing.Resident Evil is a thrill ride with some really intense action. Fans of the game should like the costuming work done with Jill and how the monster makeup made the Nemesis look just like he does in the game. It had some of the best action I've seen in a long time.The most in this film that I love is the dark scenes, the film is filmed at night, which I love that. I love the action in the church when Jill Valentine and a group of survivors are fighting those giant zombie monsters and Alice jumps with a motorcycle trough the window and she drove's right in front of zombie monster, jumps off the motorcycle makes a back flip from off of the motorcycle and landed, posted up and pulled out her guns and blew the zombie and the motorcycle up! If that isn't a bad ass or what. I don't know what to tell you. Alice raises her dual two-tone Heckler & Koch MP5Ks and fires them on a zombie monster.I love that this film is a rescue mission on a little girl Angie Ashford (Sophie Vavasseur) which Alice with Jill and Carols is coming to school to rescue her and escape from Raccoon City before it is destroyed by a nuclear missile.Overall: I love this film to death, It is almost as good as the first one, just the original will always be the best one! 10 out of 10 this excellent action horror sequel gets, I had a lot of fun and a blast watching this film. 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. S. Anderson. It is the second installment in the Resident Evil film series, which is based on the Capcom survival horror video game series Resident Evil.10/10 Score: A Studio: Constantin Film, Davis Films, Impact Pictures Starring: Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Oded Fehr, Thomas Kretschmann, Jared Harris, Mike Epps, Sophie Vavasseur, Iain Glen, Matthew G. Taylor Director: Alexander Witt Producers: Paul W. S. Anderson, Jeremy Bolt, Don Carmody Screenplay by Paul W. S. Anderson Based on Resident Evil by Capcom Rated: R Running Time: 1 Hrs. 34 Mins. Budget: $45.000.000 Box Office: $129,394,835

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.