A Better Resident..

In a case of the sequel outdoing the original, Resident Evil: Apocalypse was actually pretty decent. The first film in the series, Resident Evil, was pretty terrible. I actually have a review of it in the blog somewhere, but to sum up - within five minutes of the start, I saw the boom mike in the shot and a huge continuity error. The amateur start is behind the series as Paul W.S. Anderson moved from writer/director in the first one to just writer in the second. Alexander Witt got a promotion of sorts as he graduated from DP and 2nd unit director to the head honcho in directing this film. He did a really good job in his rookie film.

Milla Jovovich was tough as nails reprising her role as Alice, the lead badass. Sure, it was shlocky sci-fi based on a video game, sure, it was thin on plot and thick on explosions, but - it was fun... and that is all it set out to be.

RATING 6 out of 10


- posted by Chris @ 8:18 PM