Product Details

• Actors: Milla Jovovich
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
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• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Sony Pictures
• DVD Release Date: September 4, 2007
• Run Time: 195 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000RXZL04
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #8,801 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Resident Evil: Something rotten is brewing beneath the industrial mecca known as Raccoon City. Unknown to its millions of residents, a huge underground bioengineering facility known as The Hive has accidentally unleashed the deadly and mutating T-virus, killing all of its employees. To contain the leak, the governing supercomputer, Red Queen, has sealed all entrances and exits. Now a team of highly-trained super commandos including Rain (Michelle Rodriguez - The Fast and the Furious, Girlfight), Alice (Milla Jovovich - The Fifth Element) and Matt (Eric Mabius - Cruel Intentions) must race to penetrate The Hive in order to isolate the T-virus before it overwhelms humanity. To do so, they must get past the Red Queen's deadly defenses, face the flesh-eating undead employees, fight killer mutant dogs and battle The Licker, a genetically mutated savage beast whose strength increases with each of its slain victims.

Resident Evil Apocalypse : After narrowly escaping the horrors of the underground Hive facility, Alice (Milla Jovovich) is quickly thrust back into a war raging above ground between the living and the Undead. As the city is locked down under quarantine, Alice joins a small band of elite soldiers, led by Valentine (Sienna Guillory, Love, Actually) and Carlos (Oded Fehr, The Mummy Returns), enlisted to rescue the missing daughter of Dr. Ashford, the creator of the mutating T-virus. It’s a heart-pounding race against time as the group faces off against hordes of blood- thirsty zombies, stealthy Lickers, mutant canines and the most sinister foe yet. Written and produced by the visionary director of Resident Evil, Paul W. S. Anderson (Alien Vs. Predator) and directed by Alexander Witt, Resident Evil Apocalypse is a superior sci-fi suspense sequel.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining, September 21, 2007

By	anonymous - See all my reviews

I've been a fan of Resident Evil since the first one was released on the PlayStation. Most movie adaptations of video games tend to fall a bit flat. I don't think these two Resident Evil movies fall into that category, however. While the movies didn't follow the game as close as I (or fans in general) would like, I think it did a good job with story. Unlike most people I know, I'm kind of glad they didn't involve more characters from the games, as I already had their story in my head. At any rate, for $14 or so, you can't go wrong adding this to your collection.

11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awsome!!!!, September 5, 2007

By	Colleen M. Croteau - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The resident evil movies are awsome! This one comes with a free movie ticket to go see resident evil extinction in theatures! I cant wait to go see that movie! I recomend this movie! It comes with a bridge scene between apacolypse and extinction!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Great Deal On The Modern Day Zombie Franchise Of Resident Evil., September 2, 2008

By	Eric Ericson "RedSabbath" (Venice, Florida USA) - See all my reviews

For those who haven't seen probably the most successful adaptation of a video game to live-action film franchise, you might get a kick out of Resident Evil. Starring Milla Jovovich as Alice, a chief security officer for Raccoon City's Umbrella Corporation. Within Umbrella's secret lab called The Hive, a deadly T-Virus accidently gets released, turning most living things into blood-thirsty zombies. Alice, with strange implanted memories haunting her as well, must find a way to stop the virus with a group of various similarly heroic characters, ending up with one last battle with a very large super mutant in end's way.

Sound like a video game? Well both the first and second chapter here at times plays out like one, even though minus a few established characters, the storyline here veers off the original plot laid out by Capcom's original playable ones. But to the moderate, and even the more dedicated ones like myself, Resident Evil is a decent addition into Zombiedom. Of course it's not going to surpass original works like 80's Italian fare or George Romero's original trilogy (even though he was rumored to direct/write the first installment, only to be turned away), but there has been worse Zombie films and Jovovich does do a good job playing the lead.

As for this new re-release combo of the first two films, I was expecting the cheap way out with maybe the original '02 release one discer of the first movie packaged with the Disc One of the sequel. But surprisingly that's not the case. The discs in this set are a brand new piece, with Disc One having BOTH movies on the same DVD-9 single sided, dual layer disc. This was very cool, with a brand new menu with one movie per layer, with only two audio tracks (5.1 English/French). You'd expect that the bitrate would be very low for these movies, but since this was re-encoded in 2007, both movie's rate seem very high, and picture looking superb for SD. As for the second disc, it's a mixed bag. If you were expecting all the bonus features from the 2 Disc individual releases, forget it. Since this release was made just to promote the theatrical release of the third film, '07's somewhat disapointing Extinction, they mostly deal with sneak peeks of it. However, there are a few extras outside of Number Three, but they all deal with Apocalypse, so no behind-the-scenes of the original, not to mention the films themselves are missing their commentaries from those as well. There is a neat trivia game on Disc Two with some pretty hardcore questions on Apocalypse, but they could have easily given us more than what they did.

Overall, this is a great way to get the first two films at a good price if all you're really looking for is the movies and a morsel of extras. As I write this, it's been a year since this was released and I doubt it will be in print for much longer due to Extinction now old news on DVD. But if you don't own the first two films and have interest in modern-day Zombies I'd suggest picking it up cheap, then if you really, really like the films, spend the extra buck and buy the extensive 2 Disc versions and with Extinction, or wait for a possible complete boxset in the future.
(RedSabbath Rating:8.0/10)