Resident Evil: Apocalypse
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Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Resident Evil: Apocalypse is the sequel to the 2002 film Resident Evil from Screen Gems, written by Paul W. S. Anderson and directed by Alexander Witt. It was released on September 10, 2004. The last Resident Evil movie, Resident Evil: Afterlife is set to release in 2006.
It stars Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Oded Fehr, Thomas Kretschmann, Jared Harris, Sandrine Holt, Sophie Vavasseur, Mike Epps, Zack Ward, and Matthew G. Taylor.
Tagline: My name is Alice and I remember everything.
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Plot
Umbrella send in a team to reopen the Hive - the research and development lab built by the Umbrella Corporation containing its biological research projects including those for biological weaponry and warfare. The team is quickly overrun by the creatures contained within and the mess spills onto the streets of Raccoon City, forcing Umbrella to quickly evacuate their important personnel and families. During this evacuation Angie Ashford, daughter of prominent Umbrella scientist Dr. Ashford, is involved in a car crash leaving her stranded in the city.
Ex-S.T.A.R.S. agent Jill Valentine heads into the local Racoon City Police Department (RPD) to collect a few of her things and dispatch some advice to her fellow colleagues. Here we meet L.J. who is being chased and about to be eaten. Jill saves him.
Umbrella sets up a containment zone around the city, screening people for contamination before they are allowed to leave. When the infection reaches the screening point Umbrella executive Cain issues the order to shut the gates and orders all remaining inhabitants back into the city at gunpoint including Jill and some of their own staff that were screening inside the gates.
Alice, the amnesiac heroine and former Umbrella Security Operative, wakes up inside an Umbrella controlled experimental lab within the deserted Raccoon City hospital. She quickly proceeds to the streets of Raccoon City to find the place essentially deserted with signs of carnage everywhere.
Jill teams up with her friend and fellow cop Payton Wells and news reporter Terri Morales to try and find another way out, or at least somewhere safe for a while from the hoards of the undead. They take refuge in a church where they find themselves at the mercy of a trio of lickers, large deadly creatures with long tongues and big teeth fresh out of the Hive. Running low on ammo, Alice breaks through a window on a motorcycle and quickly dispatches them with the aid of her motorcycle.
Dr. Ashford realizes his daughter may be trapped and not dead, remains on the camp outside Raccoon City with some of the containment staff where he tracks down his daughter's signal to her school. He then uses the cameras within the city to track down survivors and offers Alice and her team a way out providing they can get his daughter out safely.
Carlos Olivera, a hired-gun for Umbrella, finds himself and his team abandoned by Umbrella deep inside Raccoon City where their numbers are gradually reduced by the hordes of undead advancing upon them. Carlos, Alexi and Yuri spot an Umbrella helicopter and follow it only to see it make a drop. Upon getting to the drop they find the boxes now empty. Offscreen, they also get a call from Ashford with the same deal as Alice's team.
We find L.J., unable to get out in time, and is running over various undead until he is distracted and crashes his car. Now he is out on the streets. He stumbles upon a mall where the remaining members of S.T.A.R.S. are holed up. The sniper kills a zombie that was about to attack him. Inside L.J. shows off his gold plated guns and within a few minutes the S.T.A.R.S. are scrambling to fight off a huge enemy named Nemesis. We cut back to Umbrella who issue Nemesis and freshly kitted out from the helicopter drop, with the order to kill all S.T.A.R.S. members which he promptly does. L.J., who isn't a S.T.A.R.S. member and isn't considered a threat, is subsequently spared.
Alice's team spot Nemesis from a bridge and he fires upon Jill, still carrying out his "kill all S.T.A.R.S." objective. Her colleague Payton is killed, and Alice decides to take him on while Jill and Terri try to escape. Alice finds herself outmatched because of Nemesis' heavy weaponry and makes a hasty retreat joining up with Jill and Terri and then subsequently L.J.
They receive another communication from Ashford who reveals that Umbrella is now preparing to nuke the city to prevent further contamination and that they have until sunrise. Outraged that Umbrella will use the nuke as a cover-up, Alice decides to reveal all to Terri who still has her video camera so that the truth can get out. They head to the school and split up to look for Angie. Terri meets a gruesome death at the hands of zombie children with her camera catching her final moments.
Jill finds Angie and are soon set upon by an undead dog which is quickly dispatched by Alexi. He becomes overconfident and is killed by a second dog forcing them into the kitchen. Jill hatches a plan to blow the kitchen up using the gas stoves but her match goes out at the critical moment with Alice turning up just in time to toss a cigarette in.
Carlos meets up with the team and Angie and Alice sense that each other are infected. Angie explains to them that her father created the T-Virus to allow her to walk, the existence of the antidote, and makes claims that Umbrella took his research and used it for their own biological programs. Ashford gives them directions to where a helicopter is parked and instructs them that they will need to take it by force.
They proceed to the location and take out the guards only to find they have been set-up by Umbrella who have been monitoring Ashford's communications. Surrounded by guards, Cain instructs Alice and Nemesis to fight in another Umbrella experiment to find out who is better. Alice refuses and Cain shoots Dr. Ashford indicating that he was valuable to Umbrella and he will not hesitate to kill the others.
In the unarmed fight that follows they reach a stalemate until Nemesis arms himself with a chunk of steel and Cain gives Alice a stick. Alice gets the upper hand and impales Nemesis only to come to realize it was her friend from the encounter in the Hive (the events of the first Resident Evil movie). She apologizes to him and ignores Cain's orders to finish him.
Alice is then offered a flight out with Cain preparing to leave everyone else behind. There is another battle with Nemesis taking out most of the Umbrella guards before being crushed by a helicopter that he took out with his rocket launcher. The survivors - Alice, Jill, Carlos, Angie, and L.J. board the helicopter, and push Cain out. Cain lands back on the plaza injured and unable to run from the mass of attracted zombies descending upon the plaza. He takes a few of them out with his gun before realizing it is hopeless and decides to take his own life. Unfortunately, he is out of bullets and the zombies eat him alive.
The nuclear missile strikes City Hall and the shockwave knocks the helicopter out the sky. Some time later an Umbrella team happen upon the crashed helicopter and find no survivors and one dead body.
Some undisclosed time later we see Alice submerged in a water tank inside another lab hooked up to various equipment via tubes and needles. The tank is drained and a confused and blank Alice is handled by Umbrella lab staff.
Very quickly she regains her memory and utters the tag line "I'm Alice and I remember everything" and proceeds to fight her way out, quickly discovering her new powers including the ability to kill a distant guard watching her on a security camera just by thinking it. Outside more guards are waiting but they are ushered aside by Jill and Carlos masquerading as Umbrella operatives. Along with L.J. and Angie, they whisk Alice away.
They are confronted once again at the security gate where Dr. Isaacs tells the guards to let her go and informs his assistant to "activate program Alice" and her eyes flash the Umbrella corporate logo in response to his command.
Regenerate
The Regenerate "commercial" was a teaser trailer for the second Resident Evil film, and can be seen in the movie on a TV screen in the female scientist's house. It is reminiscent of the Oil of Olay product Regenerist advertisements.
Regenerate (2003) is a skin care product (and registered trademark) of the Umbrella Corporation (motto: Our business is life itself), utilizing the T-Virus to reanimate dead cells and make you more youthful looking. Some side effects may occur.
The teaser trailer is available from Sony Pictures in both RealMedia (http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/residentevilapocalypse/video/trailer/trailer_low.ram) and Windows Media (http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/residentevilapocalypse/video/trailer/trailer_low.asx) formats.
Trivia
- The story borrows elements from Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, and adapts them into the Resident Evil movie universe.
- The film was shot in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and used various familiar landmarks of that city as filming locations.
- Milla Jovovich has announced that she is willing to make a third Resident Evil film.
- Alice's new abilities are similar to those bestowed by the T-Veronica virus of Alexia Ashford from Resident Evil Code: Veronica.
See also
- Resident Evil (the franchise article)
- Resident Evil (the article about the first movie)
External links
- Official movie web site (http://www.re2.com/)
- trailer from Tribute.ca (http://www.tribute.ca/player/enhancePlayer.asp?isWM=1&isQT=1&filePath=Trailers&fileName=residentevilapocalypse)
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