Resident Evil: Apocalypse [SPOILERS]

Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Sebastian Peill-M
10/5/15

     Resident Evil: Apocalypse is the second Resident Evil movie by Paul W.S. Anderson, and stars Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Oded Fehr, and Thomas Kretsmann. The film was released September 10th, 2004 and made $45,000,000 (I need to find a better way to start these, they are way too repetitive).

    Alice (Jovovich) has survived the horror of the Hive and the zombie T-Virus, only, when she escapes she is taken captive by the very company she used to work for, Umbrella. While she is being experimented on, Umbrella decides to open the Hive, unleashing the zombie virus onto the people of Racoon City. Chaos pursues as the city is slowly being infected, Jill Valentine (Guillory) has teamed up with several people and do their best to survive, eventually boarding themselves in a church.

    Alice, who at this point has escaped from the abandon Umbrella facility, is looking for other survivors and just happens (weird, I know, a giant city and she happens to find the main characters) to arrive at the church just in time to kill three mutated zombie lickers (see below) and save the day.

Talk about a face for radio (Licker)

     At this point you are introduced to Olivera (Fehr), an Umbrella soldier helping contain the infection. Olivera gets marooned with some of his colleagues and have to fight there way to safety, all the while, their numbers decreasing.

     Now, someone who I should probably have mentioned before is Umbrella scientist, Ashford. Ashford has been taken to safety, but his daughter is still trapped in city, he hacks into the city systems ans calls Olivera's team and Alice's team, and notify them that they can escape in a helicopter before Umbrella blows up a nuke to destroy the zombies. To do this they must rescue his daughter and he'll tell them where the helicopter is. Alice and Olivera make there way towards the school, unbeknownst to each other.

     While Alice and her survivors are making their way to the school Umbrella decides test out one of their zombie mutations, Nemesis. Alice distracts Nemesis away from Valentine, so that they can continue onto the school. While fighting and mainly running from Nemesis, Alice discovers that she has powers, from being experimented on by Umbrella and uses them to escape to the school where they find Ashford's daughter and meet up with Olivera.

     The rest of the film is like the ending of most action movies, and epic fight, the defeating of the antagonist and escape with a twist. This movie is a great action/thriller movie, full of action, gore, and zombie, what more can a 17 yr old boy want? The movie was not considered a big success and is one of the least liked out of all the current RE films. The movie has a R rating (duh) and is extremely violent. The hard part about writing about a Resident Evil movie is that you either have to do them in order (which I didn't), or explain a lot of the plot (that's me). Many consider this a horror movie, I disagree because I do not watch horror movies. Personally, I enjoyed the film and would recommend it to anybody who enjoys zombie films.

Interesting Fact: The trailer for this film was one of the most watched on the Internet, with 8.5 million downloads from November 2003 to May 2004.