Product Details

• Actors: Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory
• Directors: Alexander Witt
• Format: NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (376 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 1404950915
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #640,986 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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2002's popular video-game-derived hit Resident Evil didn't inspire confidence in a sequel, but Resident Evil: Apocalypse defies odds and surpasses expectations. It's a bigger, better, action-packed zombie thriller, and this time Milla Jovovich (as the first film's no-nonsense heroine) is joined by more characters from the popular Capcom video games, including Jill Valentine (played by British hottie Sienna Guillory) and Carlos Olivera (Oded Fehr, from 1999's The Mummy). They're armed and ready for a high-caliber encounter with devil dogs, mutant "Lickers," lurching zombies, and the leather-clad monster known only as Nemesis, unleashed by the nefarious Umbrella Corporation responsible for creating the cannibalistic undead horde. Having gained valuable experience as a respected second-unit director on high-profile films like Gladiator and The Bourne Identity, director Alexander Witt elevates this junky material to the level of slick, schlocky entertainment. --Jeff Shannon

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33 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Boxset Contains SPECIAL Edition...NOT DELUXE (New One), August 29, 2005

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KiWiSouP "kiwisoup" (Minneapolis, MN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Resident Evil (Special Edition) / Resident Evil - Apocalypse (Collector's DVD Box Set) (DVD)

this contains the old version of the movie with the red cover, not the newer and better deluxe version with the green cover.

21 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great zombie movies, no more and no less., June 5, 2005

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J. Williams (New York, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Resident Evil (Special Edition) / Resident Evil - Apocalypse (Collector's DVD Box Set) (DVD)

I feel that both of these films are somewhat underrated. They were hurt by critics who sort of missed the point and by video gamers who expected them to be carbon-copies of the games. They are, simply, very good zombie movies - lots of campy fun, great action, and even some genuine scares. They're just fun to watch, and one of the big reasons for that is Milla - who looks great and is just perfect for this role, simultaneously strong and vulnerable. (An earlier review said these were among her first films - in fact, she has been acting since 1991, when she famously appeared nude at age 14 in "Return to the Blue Lagoon". She is a veteran actress with nearly 20 films to her credit.)

It is true that these films don't do much that's new with the genre - if that's what you're looking for, see "28 Days Later" instead. But the Resident Evil films do the traditional zombie genre as well as any film has recently, with great special effects (these were big-budget films), good acting and a lot of action.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK WITH ZOMBIES, January 12, 2005

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E. Day "ENIGMA" (Jacksonville, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Resident Evil - Apocalypse (Special Edition) (DVD)

Let me first take a second just to say that i have never written a movie review in the past, but i am a person that when extremely pleased or highly dissatisfied often feels the need to say something, so here it is: This movie is without a doubt one of the most worst action/horror/scifi/whatever the hell peice of crap kinda movie you want to call it. What bothered me most outside of the huge plot holes was that this movie was a horrid rip of of ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (which i will add was a much better movie by far than this piece of tripe). What the producers of this movie relied on was the fact that the audience they were going after (young males 16-25) probably have never seen or heard of the movie ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK thus wouldnt know that there wasnt one single fresh or original idea in the whole movie. Yes it was nice seeing Alice and Valentie (pretty faces and nice bodies to attract the boys) kick some butt, ill admit, but when you actualy go to the lengths of stealing another persons movie idea you'd think they could at least make the plot work (i.e. to reanimate dead bodies they MUST be infected with the T-Virus, yet when the wayward team are running through a grave yard, corpes come up from the ground. Can someone please tell me how they, 1) got out of ther coffins from 6 feet down, and then tell me how they were infected with the T-virus?)I wont bore you with more details of the dreadfulness of this rip off, my only point was to warn any of you Resident Evil 1 fans that were thinking of picking this up (by the way i did like part one)If you really want to see a better version (AND NOT A RIPPED OF PIECE OF GARBAGE) of what was meant in APOCALYSE, rent or buy ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK with Kurt Russell, i think you will be pleasantly surprised.