My name is Alice and I remember everything.
A deadly virus has been unleashed on the population of Raccoon City. Resident evil: Apocalypse is a terrifying adventure in survival horror.
Milla Jovovich returns as Alice, one of only two survivors of the contained biochemical disaster in the first Resident evil, the $100 million hit that serves as a prologue to the all-out action and horror of Resident evil: Apocalypse.
The film begins where the first film left off, with Alice in the heart of the ravaged and deadly Raccoon City. She has been subjected to bio-genetic experimentation by the vast Umbrella Corporation and become genetically altered, with super-human strengths, senses and dexterity. These skills, and more, will be needed if anyone is to remain alive.
Alice is joined by Jill Valentine (Sienna Guillory), a recently demoted member of Umbrella Corp's elite Special Tactics and Rescue Services (STARS), Terri Morales (Sandrine Holt), Carlos Oliviera (Oded Fehr), LJ (Mike Epps), and Nicholai (Zack Ward) who must survive and escape what is quickly becoming a city of the dead. To reach their goal, they will need to battle their way through the relentless onslaught of the ravenous undead, as well as Umbrella forces and terrifying bio-engineered weapons, the most deadly of which is the colossal, heavily armed assassin, Nemesis.
Special Agent Matti
Resident evil: Apocalypse is actually better than the original. There are only so many ways you can fight your way out of an underground hive while being chased by blood-crazed, flesh-eating zombies. The sequel gives you an entire city in which to run, jump, hit, shoot, die, come back to life as a blood-crazed, flesh-eating zombie. The best part of the story, however, is the rip-off from Alien: resurrection, in which Ellen Ripley is made into the thing she most despises: the baddie. From that point on, Resident evil: Apocalypse (both films even have a colon in their title) becomes a hunt 'em down and shoot 'em up scary horror flick. That is, a good way to waste a couple of hours at the local cinema.
M (Medium level violence, medium level coarse language)
93 minutes (1:43 hours)
Film: 21 October 2004
DVD rental: 16 March 2005
VHS rental: 16 March 2005