Product ReviewsResident Evil - Apocalypse (Special Edit DVD

Pretty Girls, Big Guns, Ugly Monsters...

The sequel to Resident Evil – in which a group of scientists and special forces get trapped in a giant underground facility overrun with zombies and mutants – is pretty much what you'd expect. After being captured by the Umbrella Corporation at the end of the first film, almost-sole-survivor Milla Jovovich (the only supermodel in the world who you can take seriously as an action heroine) wakes up in an abandoned laboratory in Raccoon City to find that the zombie-animating "t-virus" has spread to the surface. Half the city are already zombified and killing the other half, and Umbrella Corporation has sealed off the city limits and is planning to "sanitise" the area. Hooking up with a rag-tag group of survivors, Jovovich makes a deal with a rogue Umbrella scientist who promises to get them out of town as long as they rescue his missing daughter who's hiding somewhere in the ruins. Meanwhile Umbrella has its own plans for the lovely Miss Milla, involving a seven-foot armour-clad mutant called the Nemesis who's using the infested city as a training ground. Much shooting/fighting/exploding ensues, and - just like in the first film - the mysterious cliffhanger ending leaves things wide open for another sequel.

Probably because it's based on a Japanese video game, this movie isn't afraid to embrace the clichés that Hollywood's spent the last decade or so trying to avoid. Lurching zombies, machine gun-toting monsters, smarmy suit-wearing villains, hard-as-nails soldiers and a wisecracking streetwise black dude are all essential ingredients, as well as not one but TWO sexy ass-kicking heroines. While Jovovich rides in to save the day on a motorcycle and carries so many guns it's a wonder she doesn't fall over, Sienna Guillory (as tough bitch cop Jill Valentine) has the dubious honour of performing various athletic action sequences in a miniskirt and boob tube. Am I complaining? Hell no.

To be honest, it's really quite refreshing to see a movie like this in this day and age. Like the timelessly cheesy horror/action flicks of John Carpenter, the Resident Evil franchise throws realism and political correctness to the wind and just has fun pitting Pretty Girls With Big Guns against Ugly Monsters With Big Teeth. Be honest – unless you're a metrosexual poseur or a card-carrying member of the PC Police, you probably love this stuff as much as I do.Read full review...

Say hello to the next Angelina!

I would never give a sequel this much credit, but after picking up so smoothly from the first, Apocalypse gets my vote. And what a change of pace from the first movie! This may be based on a game, but I never saw this story on Playstation. Most of all, Alice (Milla Jovovich) Gets a serious attitude with the T-Viral zombies, and with the few humans left in Raccoon City to help her. The big shocker was her infection, that she was to become the "Super Soldier" with a controlled contamination of the T-Virus.
Where the movie misses, is the ending is very predictable. All the heroes live somehow, Alice escapes Umbrella, and they ride off into the night to pursue evil. But it's a great ride getting there. Laughs, Scares,and heart pulsing action keep this sequel's story from biting the dust.
Milla Jovovich should be able to use this series the same as Angelina Jolie used the "Tomb Raider" movies... To marry and divorce any co-star she wants, adopt third world children, and all the while demanding $20 million+++ for her services on camera.Read full review...

Resident Evil: Apocalypse

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The film begins with Alice (Milla Jovovich) recalling the key events from the back door first film. On September 29, 2002, thirteen hours after the initial T-Virus outbreak in The Hive, the Umbrella Corporation sends in a research team to re-open the complex. As the team enters The Hive through a secret insertion point beneath Raccoon City, the entire team is slaughtered by zombies and Lickers who have been sealed within the complex. Realizing the entrance is now open, and the virus and infectious zombies will make their way to the surface, Umbrella establishes a security perimeter around the city to keep the citizens in a quarantined areaRead full review...

Resident Evil

This was a good movie. Good special effects, decent stunts, new but believable (within the Resident Evil world) angle on the storyline. I am a Resident Evil fan (put together much better than the run of the mill dead crawling about to eat the living for no reason and then just stop come sunrise, there are a lot of em.), I have played several versions of the games to death. I would not let my small kids see this or me playing the games, so maybe it's been awhile, but other than that I would buy this one. I was so excited to see it again I stayed up till nearly 2 Am multiple nights just so I could watch it (without my kids). I would love it if they made more movies like this.Read full review...

Good

It’s good but I completely understand it all but I really need the dent token out of my skull and my body completely fixed and I’m not psychiatric so hey I really would like my body completely fixed and I’m full grown and I got parenting class A PLUS AWARD for me and Yarnell junior for me and Shawn junior Read full review...

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If you love the Resident Evil series, you'll love it.

This was not a story that'll make you reassess the meaning of life. But, it is pretty harmless fun. And who doesn't like Milla Jovavich?

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Resident Evil: Apocalypse

If you are a real fan of Milla Jojovich then that would probably make this worth seeing for that fact. Otherwise, I would consider this pretty much average quality in many respects. Lots of action so if you are an action fan, and most likely are if you are thinking of seeing this, then it is a good choice for that reason too.
What I didn't like was the swearing and in one scene, lack of attire, which I consider negative aspects, rather than positive.Read full review...

Resident Evil: Apocalupse

Awesome movie! I loved the first movie, so was prompted to buy the second just because of the that. I hoped that the second would be as good as the first, but it way out-performed the first and I was not disappointed one bit. I would highly recommend this movie to anyone who has any interest in the horror genre. I would, however, recommend watching the first movie (Resident Evil) prior to watching this, because this movie does have reflections back to the first, and it just has has more meaning in knowing the history, especially at the ending. Now, I am hoping they come up with a Resident Evil 3!
A+++++ MovieRead full review...

kid loves it. me too. thank you so much

Long live Umbrella Corp. Great movie new condition and at a great price. Priceless. R A Jones

Resident Evil fan

Great movie , this is the dvd version of what I already have in bluray ,this has extras that my bluray doesn't.

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