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You won't be disappointed!

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Resident Evil: Apocalypse didn't quite work for me. It isn't as fun or as frightening as the original. There are some entertaining moments as well as some scary ones, but, for the most part, it's a cliched mess of action sequences.

This is considered to be the worst movie in the "Resident Evil" series and for mostly good reason. I admit that the only reason I was attracted to this movie was how it was on Roger Ebert's most hated movies list. I don't hate it as much as he did, but I still hated it. I have known seen every "Resident Evil" movie. I'll at least give them props for being better than oh, 70% of video game movies, not that that says much. The movie's main fault is that it's just nothing but fight scene after fight scene.There's just absolutely nothing in this film that hasn't been done better in other zombie movies. Heck, there's nothing that the other films in the series hasn't done better. It's completely mindless violence with random shooting, which unfortunately could be interpreted as a faithful video game adaptation. We have in fact gotten better video game movies this year like "Tomb Raider" and "Rampage" which, while not masterpieces, at least treat their stories like actual stories. I'm not that familiar with the games, but I was able to recognize Jill Valentine at least. I do think Ebert went a bit too far when telling people not to let their kids date people who like this movie, considering that he was the only critic on RottenTomatoes that liked "Speed 2: Cruise Control". *1/2

Filling in some details from the events right after the original, the sequel begins on a grander scale. All of Raccoon City falls victim to the infection of the T-Virus. Alice (Milla Jovovich) wakes up from experimentation and starts fighting zombies. The film introduces a new set of characters who struggle to survive the Apocalypse. Jill Valentine (Sienna Guillory) is a tough cop who isn't afraid to shoot a zombie in the head as the virus begins to spread. Carlos Olivera (Oded Fehr) is part of a tactical team that ventures into the city to help extract civilians. L.J. (Mike Epps) is a petty crook with custom pistols who is just trying to survive.As the virus spreads, the military begins to quarantine all the citizens and only evacuate the important members of the Umbrella corporation. Major Cain (Thomas Kretschmann) leads the operation and is tasked with evacuating the scientist Dr. Ashford (Jared Harris) who tasks the remaining survivors with finding his daughter Angie (Sophie Vavasseur). Check out more of this review and others at swilliky.com

Resident Evil: Apocalypse is a zombie/monster action film that is based on a video game. This movie does have a great amount of action. And much the action is entertaining, despite the ineffective shaky-cam technique, poor CGI, and quick cut shots leaving the audience unable to actually see what is happening. After seeing films like "the Raid: Redemption" and "the Raid 2" I have learned not to tolerate for this awful style of film making. Again, the action is entertaining, but it is in no way well-filmed. The story is ludicrous, makes little sense and is riddled with plot-holes, both big and small. For example, the scene in which the zombies come from under the ground in the graveyard, I laughed at. If the zombie infection portrayed in this movie is spread by blood, then how the HECK did zombies IN THE GROUND come out?! And where is the rest of the world? Where is the military? Surely they have been informed about this huge crisis happening. How did the girl survive in the school without getting eaten by zombies? No one else besides Alice decided to raid the gun store in a zombie apocalypse? The special/practical effects are horrible. The monsters in the church literally looked like something out of a old video-game. And the zombies themselves looked like people wearing Halloween costumes and makeup. The dialogue is cheesy, unconvincing, and terrible. This film has one of the worst, most under-developed romance I have ever seen in a movie. The action in no way has any suspense or tension, it is simply just random events happening with no substance or purpose. I don't expect a movie like this to be well-made or have a great-story, but at the very least give action that we can see!