Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Pretty damn cool. Options

[Vitamin D]

Anyone see it? If you're a fan of the series I'm sure you'll like it. It was a LOT more like the game than the first was. Lots of guns, zombies, dark areas...and Jill was kickin some serious ass. Nemesis was damn cool too he even has a "S.T.A.R.S." line! It drags down at LOT at the ending though, but they make it way cool by adding something from one of the RE games. (spoiler if at the bottom) Now I think it could have been even better with a more involved story, but overall it was pretty cool. And now for that spoiler...


























Remember that really tight FMV with Claire in Code: Veronica where she outruns the helicopter? Yeah, they do that in the movie. Right after that, they do the part where she drops her gun and catches it while falling too. It was a nice touch. And if it's not common knowledge, Carlos is in the movie. And so is a character named "Nicholai" who I think may be the same dude from RE 3's Mercenaries mini game.

[Crushinator]

I thought his movie was absolutely horrible. I actually LIKED the first Resident Evil movie, too.

To me it felt like "Apocalypse" was just a clusterfuck of cheesy action scenes thrown together. Even disregarding the way it TOTALLY fucks over the way to game story plays out in RE3, the movie was just dumb as hell.

SPOILER ROAD AHEAD: USE CAUTION!










The first moment the movie turned bad was when Alice (Milla Jovovich) comes flying thru the church's stained glass and makes her bike magically fly into the air after colliding with the Licker... Other shit I didn't like:

-Jill Valentine's "bad ass cop who makes her own rules" attitude.
-Nemesis with a heart of gold. I was just waiting for him to cry a tear when they zoomed in on his eye.
-Nemesis is a remote controlled ROBOT? WTFm8?
-Black comic relief guy... Writer: "Hmm how about if I put a black guy from "tha hood" in the movie, and make him say "muthafucka" a lot? Yeah that is comedy gold~!"
-Why the fuck were they KARATE CHOPPING zombies and punching them and shit? SHOOT THEM!
-The shitty fast-cut style of the fights (especially the "mortal kombat" between Alice and Nemesis) where a lot of nothing is happening, but you CAN'T FUCKING TELL BECAUSE THE CAMERAWORK IS SO SHITTY.
-How come the Nemesis never wen't all tentacle-monster and shit? That was when he was at his coolest.
-A lot of movies are guilty of this... but when the umbrella scientist guy is locked out of his Login access... he types "HACK COMPUTER" and it FUCKING HACKS AND LOGS HIM IN? WTF WTF WTF.
-The ending... WTF so they amplify Alice's powers to be PSYCHIC? And she can control computers and cameras? And Jill, Carlos, Huggy Bear, AND that damn little kid survive the goddamn helicopter crash? And then Alice is a robot/cyborg controlled by umbrella? WHAT THE FUCK?


Some stuff I did like:
+Nemesis looked like the "real deal"... too bad he moved so stupidly. At least he wasn't CG though.
+Jill Valentine was fuckin' SMOKIN'.
+Zombie Titties.
+Alice looked cool kicking ass and taking names.
+The black guy was ALIVE at the end of the movie. I think this must have been a script error.
+Replaying the whole RE:CV opening thing was pretty cool.

Vitamin D: It had Carlos, Nikolai, and Yuri from RE3 but played them out as generic badguy-turned hero types, instead of the cooler way they were in the game.


In conclusion: I want my $7.50 back!