Wonderful character development!

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

This is considered to be the worst movie in the "Resident Evil" series and for mostly good reason. I admit that the only reason I was attracted to this movie was how it was on Roger Ebert's most hated movies list. I don't hate it as much as he did, but I still hated it. I have known seen every "Resident Evil" movie. I'll at least give them props for being better than oh, 70% of video game movies, not that that says much. The movie's main fault is that it's just nothing but fight scene after fight scene.There's just absolutely nothing in this film that hasn't been done better in other zombie movies. Heck, there's nothing that the other films in the series hasn't done better. It's completely mindless violence with random shooting, which unfortunately could be interpreted as a faithful video game adaptation. We have in fact gotten better video game movies this year like "Tomb Raider" and "Rampage" which, while not masterpieces, at least treat their stories like actual stories. I'm not that familiar with the games, but I was able to recognize Jill Valentine at least. I do think Ebert went a bit too far when telling people not to let their kids date people who like this movie, considering that he was the only critic on RottenTomatoes that liked "Speed 2: Cruise Control". *1/2

No matter the genre, a second film in the franchise is always expected to up the ante. Whether that entails expanding the scope and scale or just developing your characters to a new point of awakening is up to each film individually. Resident Evil Apocalypse adds nothing new to what the first film already established. In fact, besides a slight setting change and some new faces, this is the exact same movie.It's unfortunate that Milla Jovovich got so tied up with the Resident Evil films for all those years. She's a talented actress, and quite good in the movies, but she's never given much to do besides wear inappropriate clothing (especially in an apocalypse) and throw some punches. Alice's character arc is the same as the first film. She initially finds herself estranged to her surroundings, she finds companions, punches are thrown, guns are shot, bad people try to take her and shake her world to the core, and then she revolts. It's quite laughable.For whatever weaknesses the first film had, at least it felt original and grounded with reality. 'Apocalypse' has a ton of action and new set pieces, both of which may wow the casual film-goer, but those sequences are constantly tied down by fast and lazy editing. A lot of films in the mid-2000's fell victim to jump cut fight scenes where you don't actually know who's punching who, you just get caught up in the excitement. With 'Apocalypse', not only do you not know who's punching who, you honestly don't care where the punches are landing anyway. It's not that I overtly disliked any of the new characters we were introduced to, such as Jill Valentine, Carlos Olivera, Angie Ashford, L.J., or Terri. But I found nothing unique or interesting about them, especially compared to the original gang in the first film.Sure, Jovovich is always entertaining to watch as Alice, but with nothing new added since the last outing, I can't possibly give the film a positive review.+Jovovich keeps it watchable-Lazy editing-Rehashed plot-Nothing unique about the new team4.4/10

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.

Trapped in Raccoon City, Alice joins a group of survivors to fight their way out of the zombie-infested city to find a young girl at the heart of stopping the plague before the entire city is destroyed.This is an immensely fun and exciting effort. One of the better parts to this is the incredibly frenetic action that utterly overwhelms here based on all sorts of different measures. Paced more like an Action than film than a Horror film, this one has a nearly continuous series of attacks, shootouts, firefights, brawls and chases that all combined together that makes this an unrelenting and non-stop Action film, getting going right from the start and never letting up. From the madness of the barricade to leave the city, the troops' firefight with the creatures along the burning city streets and the church hideout, it really contains a lot of action and shootouts quite early and runs through them into the ecstatic final half. These contain even more impressive action scenes as the first encounter with the hulking humanoid monstrosity wielding rocket launchers, mini-guns and more in a frantic, exciting shootout, a daring battle with mutant dogs in the school and the impressive shootout to allow them to take out the heli-pad which turns into a blazing action scene full of brawling, hand-to-hand combat and a further shoot-out among the security center with a second helicopter gets a lot of exciting moments packed into this. With all this action it really does put a lot more positives in here as this makes for continuous special effects showcasing the ravenous zombies and deformed mutants throughout here, and that also puts in a healthy amount of blood and gore to be had. About the only part here that's not really all that interesting is the finale which tries to go far too overt for its own good rather than just letting the good it's established stay in the forefront. Instead, this one seems as if all the different conspiracies and actions against the main city here are simply to keep the storyline going for future films rather than serving any special point for this one. That's still not enough from making this one a wholly enjoyable and entertaining watch.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Adult Language, Brief Nudity and children-in-jeopardy.