Resident Evil: Apocalypse

RESIDENT EVIL: APOCALYPSE (2004) - Sept. 10, 2004
An awful, awful movie. Where the original was surprisingly decent, and probably the best videogame movie so far (not that that takes much), this was just terrible. It fails on every conceivable level. The direction was horrible -- the movie was constantly unappealing to look at (nothing in this movie even came close to living up to the potential of that cool final shot of the first movie), and the action (of which there was plenty) was stupid and incoherent. Plus the action was way way too over-the-top. And Raccoon City looks suspiciously like Toronto -- the C.N. Tower even made an appearance. Plus there was the very prominent appearance of Toronto's City Hall. The quality of the acting ranged from terrible to barely adequate, with most performances falling into the former category. And the dialogue - what little there was - sucked (in fact, with the poor dialogue and acting, much of the movie actually reminded me of the cutscenes from the Resident Evil games, though I somehow doubt that was the intent). That's actually what this movie seemed like: it was like being forced to sit through a poorly-done one and a half hour cutscene for a Resident Evil game, and then not even being able to play the game. 1/2*