Speaking of game characters appearing, Nemesis makes his film debut as well. Anderson had to put some characters from the games in, but resented another female character being in the same film as his beloved Jovovich, so made sure everyone watching knew how apparently so much cooler she is… But it’s okay, because Alice was coincidentally standing in the next room with a lit cigarette, so SHE throws it in, protects the girl and watches as Jill gets awkwardly tossed into a table because she’s obviously shit compared to cool Alice. Hell, Jill was protecting a little girl from zombie dogs in a kitchen (in a fun scene reminiscent of Jurassic Park), she turns on the gas, and as she leaves with the girl throws a match into the kitchen… only for the match not to go off. Alice now has superhuman powers, so this wasn’t the last case of her protecting everyone else with her “badass-ness”. member and two civilians are trapped in a church with some Lickers, and after a few relatively tense moments of creeping around, Jill and the other guy unloads all their ammo with random fire like a pair of idiots, and then get ready to be killed before Alice arrives, crashing a motorbike through the church window in slow motion and takes care of all the Lickers with no effort and lots of really cringey “looking cool with guns” moments to camera. I remembered the exact point I switched the film off the first time: Jill, a generic made up S.T.A.R.S. The worst part is they actually cast two people from the games, Sienna Guillory as Jill Valentine and Oded Fehr as Carlos Oliveira, and while the later gets a few moments of cheesy slow motion gunplay action, the movie Jill is constantly shown to be incompetent against the holy god that is Jovovich’s Alice. Okay, so here we go: Resident Evil: Apocalypse is an old-fashioned action film, but instead of an Arnold Schwarzenegger or Sylvester Stallone at the centre, it has Milla Jovovich, who may have the same lack of acting the other two do, but can’t pull of the bad-ass-ness needed to suspend your disbelief. Jill was wearing her Resident Evil 3 outfit… that was kind of good, I guess? I mean, I wasn’t really thinking of completely crapping on this film, but here I am the following day looking back, and I can’t really think of anything positive. Hey, it’s Jill! She looks quite a bit like Jill from RE3, that’s… cool?Įrm… You know, I’m honestly struggling here. Together, they search for a scientist who might be able to help. Alice, a survivor from Umbrella’s secret lab, meets former Umbrella security officer Jill Valentine and mercenary Carlos Oliviera. Umbrella seals off the city to contain the virus, creating a ghost town where everyone trapped inside turns into a mutant zombie. Still though, is it any good at all now, with fresh eyes and a need to sit through it no matter what? Let’s find out!Ī deadly virus from a secret Umbrella Corporation laboratory underneath Raccoon City is exposed to the world. While the second game (or even the third that this is clearly more based on) was still more horror than action, this is just action, and action with a super-powered heroine at that. I put this movie on after being pleasantly surprised with the first one, and switched it off half way through. So, we reach film #2 in the Resident Evil movie franchise, and this is where my experience ended.
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