Resident Evil 2: Apocalypse
Saw Resident Evil 2 tonight, and what a blast it was. Sure, the plot was zero and the believability is nil (like killing a priority 1 employee? I just don’t get it) but no one cares about such things in these game movies.
It’s all about Alice and her super human powers this time round. Taken right from the ending of RV1 she’s busted out of the lab, surrounded by a Racoon city full of zombies and PMT to boot.
You just know she’s gonna whoop some ass. Thrown at her are typical zombies back from the grave or freshly dead, and even some uber bio weapons with big long tongues and sharp teeth. Alice joins up with Jill Valentine from the original RE to take the screen, after all without Jill there wouldn’t be any Resident Evil genre.
I’m not sure what video game RE2 was trying to capture; the first half of the movie I felt like I was being put in a very real Resident Evil Zero universe which was cool with our familiar S.T.A.R. cast back to kick some zombie butt.
Nemesis looks like a dude out of Quake, and even though he’s authentic looking to Resident Evil 3 video-game I just couldn’t help but think I was watching a deathmatch when Alice fights Nemesis. Bam! Nemesis whips out his rocket launcher as Alice is strafing around Nemesis as he’s firing his chain-gun. I was sitting there thinking, where are the zombies dude!? I felt the city was void of zombies, sure there were tons of them when you did see zombies, but it was all or nothing.
The gameplay, I mean movie flowing was fine with not much story line to hold on to. That’s okay because with lots of explosions who needs a story line!
Sound is always a killer in scary films, and the creators of this flick decided they’d go fairly standard horror sounds and pump it up by going LOUD silent LOUD silent LOUD silent through out the flick.
And oh, slow motion!? Every time zombies entered it cut to slow motion and I can’t figure why in god’s name they did it. WTF is with freaking slow motion man, it has to be the worst film effect ever especially when just thrown in for no freaking reason.
There are a few choice scenes in the movie with some adrenaline pumping butt kicking fun. Namely when Alice struts her stuff and kicks the good old ‘bad guys in black bike helmets’ (Where the hell do these guys come from anyway? They seem to be in tons of movies :). The pace is fast enough to keep any A.D.D. freak entertained and give a good pump up in the process.
Ending was good, and enough meat to want to watch RE3 whenever that comes out. Not sure if this has much replay value, pretty much lots of pretty explosions is the only thing that will keep you coming back to watch this.
So all in all, an entertaining night and a fun movie to watch. Not something really for the kids though, and probably not as cool as the recent ‘Dawn of the Dead’. Though RE2 definitely has a great tech feel about it with HUD’s and computers that can hack the gibson by typing in ‘hack system’.
I give it 2.5/5!
I just wish I had seen this movie in America, man it was released September 10th! This country has a little too much lag for my liking sometimes.
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