Post by slayrrr666 on Oct 29, 2010 10:39:46 GMT -5
"Resident Evil: Apocalypse" isn't as bad as some have made it out to be.
**SPOILERS**
With the outbreak of the virus spreading through-out Raccoon City and everyone is running around trying to figure out what has gone wrong, everyone tries to leave the city. The only way out is a military-controlled bridge leading out of the city. When a freak zombie accident scares Major Cain, (Thomas Kretschmann) he orders Raccoon City to be sealed off, leaving many people trapped with the zombies and causing general panic among the citizens. Alice (Milla Jovovich) wanders around and has found others trapped inside the city as well. Jill Valentine (Sienna Guillory) and Terri (Sandrine Holt) are also involved in trying to escape, but Major Cain wants to leave no trace of the infection behind and orders the Nemesis program into effect. Carlos Olivera (Oded Fehr) meets up with Alice and her crew to make it out of the city alive before the sanitation occurs.
The Good News: This isn't all that bad a film, and I don't get the criticisms of this film. It does what the other one never thought of doing-being a balls-out action flick. We get a lot more action sequences in here than in the first one, and the spectacle of the scenes allows for some nifty moments. The last twenty minutes are all action spectacle, and leave no one afraid that the movie will end on a sour note as the first one did. With loads of high impact stunts and creative angles, it really never does become boring. The test scenes of the Nemesis are just as action-packed as the other scenes, featuring a trigger-happy creature that was made for blowing things up and smashing into buildings, and it's a lot more action-packed because of it. It's more of an action film with zombies than a horror film anyway, so for me this one never really disappointed. Besides the stunts, there's tons of gun-play also involved, so that also ups the action count in this one. There's also some great horror elements as well, as the church and school scenes easily show. Both use the location involved and other elements to give us some great tension building scenes. The off-screen sounds, the barely audible growling sounds, and other such techniques are used to really great effect, and several jumps are achieved from them.
The Bad News: The main thing I want to complain about is the overall lack of on-screen zombies in this movie. We get several scenes with them, but nowhere like in others of the type, and we are even told in the beginning that the zombies are loose, but there's too few scenes. A couple of illogical plot holes aside also show up, but they aren't too distracting if you're not really looking for them.
The Final Verdict: This one confuses me a little more than the first one did, but it's still an okay zombie movie. If people stop looking at it as something that was supposed to advance the genre and instead look at it with the idea that it's a popcorn action-zombie film, this may win over a few more people. Look at it with an open heart, it's not as bad as some say it is.
Rated R: Graphic Violence, Adult Language, Brief Nudity and children in jeopardy