Resident Evil: Apocalypse Year: 2004 Director: Alexander Witt Written by: Paul W.S. Anderson Threat: Zombies Weapon of Choice: Guns Based upon: video game IMDb page:

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Resident Evil

The tyranist's thoughts
Rish hates movies based on video games. Hates. But he also complains that they don't make many zombie movies anymore. As far as I can tell, most of the zombie movies being made are based on video games. But honestly, can you think of another type of horror themed game that would convert to the big screen better?
This one picks up pretty much where the first on left off. Alice wakes up and walks out into the ruins of Raccoon City. The T-Virus has broken containment and infected the whole city. As big corporations are wont to do, the survivors have a limited amount of time to find a way out of the city before a tactical nuclear strike cleans up the mess.
The movie felt like a video game. But it also felt like they might have tried a little harder with this one to get a little more story in. Of course, all of the story seems to be references to video games, none of which I got. It's really kind of frustrating.
It did occur to me while watching this, that these movies are not dissimilar to the Alien movies in their basic plot. They are vastly dissimilar in quality, but some of the story elements are very similar.
Milla Jovovich is back as Alice and does well. Everyone else seemed a little wooden most of the time, but I don't imagine they were given much to work with. It didn't help that there was a blending of plotlines from what had to be several different games.
I suppose that if you liked the first one or liked the games you might like this one. I enjoyed it for what it was, but there are far better zombie movies out there. Posted: January 4, 2005

Total Skulls: 10

Sequel
Sequel setup
Rips off earlier film
Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie
Future celebrity appears
Former celebrity appears
Bad title
Bad premise
Bad acting
Bad dialogue
Bad execution
MTV Editing
OTS
Girl unnecessarily gets naked
Wanton sex
Death associated with sex
Unfulfilled promise of nudity
Characters forget about threat
Secluded location
Power is cut
Phone lines are cut
Someone investigates a strange noise
Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door
Camera is the killer
Victims cower in front of a window/door
Victim locks self in with killer
Victim running from killer inexplicably falls
Toilet stall scene
Shower/bath scene
Car stalls or won't start
Cat jumps out
Fake scare
Laughable scare
Stupid discovery of corpse
Dream sequence
Hallucination/Vision
No one believes only witness
Crazy, drunk, old man knows the truth
Warning goes unheeded
Music detracts from scene
Death in first five minutes
x years before/later
Flashback sequence
Dark and stormy night
Killer doesn't stay dead
Killer wears a mask
Killer is in closet
Killer is in car with victim
Villain is more sympathetic than heroes
Unscary villain/monster
Beheading
Blood fountain
Blood spatters - camera, wall, etc.
Poor death effect
Excessive gore
No one dies at all
Virgin survives
Geek/Nerd survives
Little kid lamely survives
Dog/Pet miraculously survives
Unresolved subplots
"It was all a dream" ending
Unbelievably happy ending
Unbelievably crappy ending
What the hell?