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In “Resident Evil: Apocalypse,” Milla Jovovich returns as Alice, who must fight for her life among swarms of bloodthirsty Undead
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Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Starring Milla Jovovich
Screen Gems Films
ROBERT SAUCEDO
Watching “Resi
dent Evil: Apoca
lypse” brings the
same satisfaction as
watching a friend
play Playstation for
an hour and a half.
First you sit in awe as
your friend manages
to kick maximum
butt in an efficient
manner, but by the end you’re screaming for
him not to be such a game hog. The people
responsible for bringing a sequel to the 2002
Paul W.S. Anderson film “Resident Evil,”
which was based loosely on the popular vid
eo game franchise, did a spot-on job of trans
lating the original popular game franchise’s
visuals to the big screen.
They have also successfully reminded au
diences why playing video games is so much
more fun than watching horrible movies
based upon them.
The female leads wear the same imprac
tical outfits from the video game (the ones
that scream “bite me in the 70 percent of my
flesh that’s exposed”). The movie’s creatures
carry the same clumsy, pixilated graphic look
as in the video game, which was released in
1996. For fans who played any of the games,
they are in for a real treat, as producers have
faithfully adapted every bit of horrific dia
logue and acting that are so memorable from
the first few games.
“Resident Evil: Apocalypse” picks up di
rectly where the original movie ended. Al
ice, a genetically-enhanced warrior played
by Milla Jovovich, has just killed a gaggle
of zombies that were created by a chemical
outbreak in an underground laboratory. She
wakes up a short time later in another labora
tory to discover the town has become over
run with zombies and mutants.
What follows is the skirting of a fine line
^s the movie dances between homage and
downright theft of ideas. Fans of the zombie-
movie genre will undergo a series of deja vu
attacks as they watch “Resident Evil: Apoca
lypse;” the movie “borrows” scenes, charac
ters and situations from the library of films
that have come before it. From the shots of
Alice walking down a deserted strea
zombie sniper practice to the walkingife
a graveyard filled with zombies just re»
pop out from the grave, the film has
lutely nothing new to offer. It would
as no surprise if Anderson, the kingd
genre movies, simply cut and pasted s
from other successful zombie films toe
his own script.
In the span of 90 minutes, the filma
from annoying to offensive. There s
stereotypical use of minorities (comic:
from the fresh-from-the-mean-slBi
Raccoon-City-street-smart black mar;
ridiculous giant-foam-headed Nemesis
lure that resembles a castoff from a i:
Rangers episode and the whopper of:
ending that comes out of left fields
insult to injury as it smacks audiences
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