Milla Jovovich is back and kicking zombie butt as Alice in Resident Evil – Apocalypse (Special Edition)
After Alice finds some weapons, new clothes, and a motorcycle, she joins up with a group of officers and Terri Morales (Sandrine Holt) , a newswoman, to fight these zombies as well as more of those alien-faced creatures. She makes it look so easy now, but what a waste of a motorcycle. Soon the group walks through a cemetery, which is ironic for a city full of zombies. However, it is neat how the zombies come out of the ground and attack.
There are plenty of other officers out throughout the city fighting the zombies also, including Carlos Olivera (Oded Fehr, who I remember best from the Mummy films). The shooter perched on top of the movie theater has the right idea with a cool setup. Kill a zombie, have a beer. “Plenty to go around. Whoo-hoo!”
Time starts to run out when it’s announced that by sunrise, Raccoon City will be sanitized with a nuclear bomb. It’s bad enough that there’s also a computer-controlled zombie called Nemesis (Matthew G. Taylor) killing officers with machine guns and rocket launchers. Nemesis is one scary bad dude, but who ever heard of a zombie with a bazooka. Worse yet, Nemesis is bulletproof, which makes him more persistent. Seems like nothing can stop this monster.
Now here’s a new twist. There are also zombie dogs. They are quick, fearsome, and hungry for blood. And I thought the monster with the big guns was creepy.
It was a good sequel. Alice is more hardcore than before. If only those scientists would stop experimenting on her, then she wouldn’t be so cranky. On the other hand, Alice looks good in a bathrobe. It makes you wonder what will happen in the new installment, Resident Evil: Afterlife.
, I looked forward to seeing it, but mostly for the relations to the video game, just like with the Super Mario Bros. cartoons. Knowing about the video game first was helpful. For instance, Flip was a mischievous character. He always tried to talk Nemo into doing bad things like unlocking the forbidden door and relasing the Nightmare King, but I already knew that Flip was one of the good guys.
was based on another classic video game franchise. Twin brothers, Billy Lee (Scott Wolf) and Jimmy Lee (Mark Dacascos) are highly skilled martial artists living in a run down city of street punks. It’s like Dark Angel, only funnier, considering that George Hamilton and Vanna White are news anchors and Andy Dick is the weatherman. I also remember the cartoon series a little bit. Billy was always the more serious brother, but in this film Jimmy is.
