Resident Evil: Apocalypse

Name: Resident Evil: Apocalypse

Genre: Action/Horror/Science Fiction/Thriller

Cast: Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Oded Fehr, Alexander Witt (Director)

Synopsis: After some time when the T-virus broke out in the Raccoon city, Umbrella cooperation sends a team of their researchers to reopen the hive but they killed by the zombies and the lickers present there. Umbrella Corporation being worried that the virus will spread around very quickly, created a security perimeter around the city to quarantine it. Umbrella is secretly evacuating civilians from the city. Officer Jill Valentine meets her officer friend sergeant Peyton but at checkpoint of the citizen seems to affected from T-Virus so the Timothy Cain one of Umbrella’s men ordered his men to seal the gates and fire on the citizens to make them scared to go back to the city as Umbrella can’t afford that virus can get out of the city. Umbrella couldn’t able to take a girl named Angela Ashford out of the city as the car in which she was about to be taken meet with an accident who is daughter of Umbrella researcher Dr. Charles Ashford who is at level 6. Umbrella has taken out the important people from the city as the fear the city will soon be contaminated by the virus. Carlos Olivera (Oded Fehr) and other soldiers teamed up with Special Tactics and Rescue Squad (STARS) to defend themselves against the gruesome group of zombies. Yuri a member of one of the soldiers who were defending against zombies will killed by zombies. He turned into a zombie and bit Carlos due to that Carlos and his team has to retreat from there. Jill, Peyton and a news reporter Terri Morales were hiding in a church which they later on came to know that full of Lickers. But they were saved by Alice at very last minute when they about to be killed by those Lickers. Umbrella on seeing some STARS offers alive their launched Nemesis program to kill those stars officers. He killed the 13 STARS officers as they were in his data feed a moderate threat but spares LJ when he drops his guns. Dr. Charles refused to get out of the city without his daughter Angela. Soon he came to know that she is hiding in school dormitory. By hacking and checking through CCTV’s he also came to know that there are survivors of T-Virus in the city and contacted them offering a deal that he will tell her the way to get out of the city but in return they had to get back his daughter alive to him which Alice accepted.

She tells the deal to Jill and others survivors with her. Firstly they were in agreement that they should wait for the back up to come but after Alice telling that there will not be any back and they try to nuke the whole city so as to quarantine the virus as it has been told by the doctor. They accepted the same went in search of his daughter. Peyton shows signs that he is affected by the virus too but Jill tells Alice that when the time comes she will kill him by herself. Soon Alice sees Nemesis and asks Jill and Terri to run and save their lives as he already killed Peyton. There was a small fight between her and Nemesis but Alice escapes him. Jill and Terri reached the school where Angela was hiding and also picked up LJ with them. Jill finds Angela takes her with him but when infected dogs attacked them they were killed by sergeant Nicholai but soon some infected dogs again came there and killed Nicholai but he hold the dogs till the time Jill and Angela escaped from there. Terri was killed by infected child but Carlos saved LJ from one of the zombies in school who tries to attack him. Again Jill and Angela were attacked by some infected dogs but Alice came to their rescue. LJ and Carlos also meet them there. Angela tells Alice and rest of the group that she had suffered from a genetic disease and due to which she could walk. So her father created T-virus which helps her to walk again but he also made Antivirus of it because he was also aware of the possible mutation of the Virus. Angela also tells them that Alice is also affected by T-virus but Alice tells them that the virus has bonded itself with her perfectly so she had not been converted to Zombie. Alice gives antivirus to Carlos as he is also bitten.    

Seeing Angela alive Dr. Ashford gives Alice the location of the last chopper that will going to take off before the whole city will be nuked. But Cain came to know about the plans of Dr. Ashford and held in as hostage. Alice and the rest of the group came to that rendezvous point but were cornered by Cain and his men. He asked Alice to fight with the Nemesis. She refused at first but seeing Doctor killed by Cain he starts fighting him. When she almost defeated nemesis, Cain ordered Alice to kill the nemesis but she didn’t. Nemesis that was originally Matt remembered that how was attacked by the Licker and how he gets mutated. He too starts killing umbrella’s men. Carlos and Jill freed themselves and too joined the fight. Nemesis saved Alice from a helicopter explosion nearby the fight and got himself killed. Carlos and Jill take Alice back to the last chopper that was going to fly. He Cain out of the helicopter and later on zombies arrived and killed him. Fighters send the bomb to nuke the whole city to contain the virus and soon it explodes. Chopper in which Alice and the rest of the survivors who were leaving the city also came into the contact of the nuke’s blast wave and the chopper got crashed. Soon Umbrella reached at the crash site and retrieved Alice body only as none of the others were found. At first, Terri’s media footage came to news that Umbrella has been responsible for all the death’s in the city and has released the Virus and the Zombies. Later, Umbrella launched a story that there was an explosion in the nuclear power plant near the city and successfully contains the original story of Terri. Meanwhile, both Carlos and Jill are wanted for questioning by the police. After some time, Alice wakes up in the research facility of Umbrella in Detroit. Dr. Isaacs starts asking her questions but Alice didn’t remember anything but soon she remembers everything and starts attacking Dr. Isaacs and rest of the men present there and makes her way out of that facility. Soon Jill, Carlos and Oliver came their and rescues her from the facility. Dr. Isaacs on the checkpoint ordered his men to let Alice and rest of them go and the program Alice is activated. Alice eyes suddenly show Umbrella’s logo.

  

Review: It is the sequel of the Resident Evil, so much was expected from the movie but it did reasonably well. The movie’s main focus was on and only Milla Jovovich and her performance and she did it with absolute brilliance once again as she did it in the previous part. Rest of the crew’s performance wasn’t much effective at all. The movie does contain some good action sequences but the movie was stretched way too long which was needed at all. Also the story which seems perfectly fine but somehow Director Witt was able to get it done perfectly when he brought in on screen from the performances of the cast and from his direction. At some point in the movie, some may lose interest in the story as it may come into the mind what is going on her. But as a whole it is a good movie with a good amount of action and thrill.

Stars given: 2.5 out of 5.