a5c7b9f00b When Major Cain reopens The Hive, there is an outbreak of the T-Virus in Raccoon City. The Umbrella leader closes the gateway to the city and traps the survivals with the contaminated zombies, and releases Nemesis to destroy the STARS members to test how powerful this deadly weapon is. Meanwhile, Alice, Jill Valentine and Carlos Oliviera try to find Angela, the little daughter of Dr. Ashford, who is trapped in Raccoon City, as the means to escape from the siege of the city. Alice, having escaped from the Umbrella facility, finds Raccoon City overrun with the undead. Along with a group of survivors that includes Jill Valentine, she must find the daughter of Dr. Charles Ashford, who will then provide them with a way out of the city before it is nuked by Umbrella in a cover-up attempt. Meanwhile, they are being hunted by the Nemesis, another one of Umbrella's experiments. Resident Evil Apocalypse rocks! Anyone walking out of this film and not saying that had no business watching the movie to begin with. The dynamite sequel features Milla Jovovich in a kick ass performance as Alice. Picking up right where the last one left off. Racoon City has been destroyed by the T virus and it'sa effects as it was mistakenly let loose from the contaminated Hive. The now infamous Umbrella Corporation quarantines the city locking a few survivors and it's deadly inhabitants with them. Amongst the characters are game idols Jill valentine played brilliantly by Sienna Guilroy and The mummy's Oded Fehr as Carlos Olivera. The film also features the Nemesis. if you have no idea of what I'm referring too you have no business seeing this film. It's definitely a high for RE fans to see their fav games done with such justice. Sure maybe the acting and dialogue are a bit cheesy but it's all part of a much bigger picture and I for one can't wait to see this brilliant franchises end result. I was really expecting something big from Resident Evil: Appocalypse and for me it delivered big time. I was once again gripped by the RE franchise and after leaving RE: Appocalypse it made me thinking what will happen in the third installment now?.<br/><br/>The informed you of what had happened after the "incident" in Racoon City and even introduced new but familiar characters to die hard RE fans such as Jill Valentine who looked very suited to Valentines role.<br/><br/>I wasn't sure on how Nemesis would look and it looked pretty sweet. of course if you enjoyed the first one like i did then sequels are always hard to measure up to, but i think they done a good job and gave some new twists and turns to the movie.<br/><br/>The licker's, Zombie Dogs and Zombies them self's looked great like in the first and the visual effects where awesome.<br/><br/>The only reason i had to knock off a point for the second movie was due to it being cut short just when the movie was really kicking into gear. The only other thing i didn't like was there was not enough Zombie footage like there was in the first. It's a frantic piece of filmmaking that invests nothing in the characters and moves much too fast for its own good. But things do pick up a bit for the final third, when a story line finally arrives. After surviving the initial outbreak of the T-virus in the underground Umbrella Corporation facility known as the Hive (in Resident Evil), Alice (<a href="/name/nm0000170/">Milla Jovovich</a>) awakens in the hospital only to find that the T-virus has escaped, Raccoon City has become infested with zombies and lickers, and the city has been sealed at its perimeter. Realizing also that, while she was recuperating, she has been bio-genetically enhanced with super speed, strength, and agility, Alice joins forces with Umbrella's STARS (Special Tactics and Rescue Services) team members Jill Valentine (<a href="/name/nm0347149/">Sienna Guillory</a>), Carlos Olivera (<a href="/name/nm0004912/">Oded Fehr</a>), and Nikolai Ginovaeff (<a href="/name/nm0911933/">Zack Ward</a>) along with weather reporter Terri Morales (<a href="/name/nm0002142/">Sandrine Holt</a>) and street savvy L.J. Wade (<a href="/name/nm0258402/">Mike Epps</a>) to find a way out of Raccoon City before Umbrella nukes it in a coverup attempt. They must first, however, rescue 11-year-old Angela Ashford (<a href="/name/nm1070538/">Sophie Vavasseur</a>), the daughter of Dr Charles Ashford (<a href="/name/nm0364813/">Jared Harris</a>), the scientist who created the T-virus, because he is the only one who can safely evacuate them. Meanwhile, Umbrella has dispatched their secret weapon Nemesis (<a href="/name/nm0007092/">Matthew G. Taylor</a>) to track and destroy all STARS personnel. Resident Evil: Apocalypse is based on a screenplay by English film director, Paul W.S. Anderson, who based his story on a survival horror video game series created by Japanese video game designer Shinji Mikami and released in 1996 as Biohazard in Japan and Resident Evil in English-speaking countries. The movie was subsequently novelized in 2004 by Keith R.A. DeCandido. Resident Evil: Apocalypse is the second in a series of six movies. It was preceded by <a href="/title/tt0120804/">Resident Evil (2002)</a> (2002) and followed by <a href="/title/tt0432021/">Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)</a> (2007), <a href="/title/tt1220634/">Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)</a> (2010), <a href="/title/tt1855325/">Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)</a> (2012) and <a href="/title/tt2592614/">Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016)</a> (2016). Of course, it's always best to watch the first film in a series of sequels, but Apocalypse presents a summation at the beginning that details what happened in the first movie. Alice explains how she was head of security at the Umbrella Corporation, working in a secret high-tech facility called "the Hive", which was involved in developing experimental viral weaponry. Following an incident in which the T-virus escaped, everyone in the Hive was killed and turned into zombies. Only Alice and her colleague Matt Addison (<a href="/name/nm0531095/">Eric Mabius</a>) managed to survive. Alice and Matt carry the case with the T-virus and antivirus out of the Hive and into the mansion just as the doors go into lockdown. As they're sitting on the floor catching their breath, the wounds (caused by the Licker) on Matt's arm begin mutating. Suddenly, a group of Umbrella scientists in protective clothing burst into the mansion. Several of them tie Matt to a gurney and take him away, ordering him to be placed in the Nemesis program. Others subdue Alice and take her to Raccoon City Hospital to be placed in quarantine, while discussing how they're going to re-open the Hive to see what went on down there. Days (perhaps weeks) pass. Alice awakens in a locked room at the hospital, attached to numerous IV lines. She rips them all out and pounds on the window, but no one responds. She picks open the lock with an IV needle and makes her way outside to find the street littered with paper, dead cars, and small fires but no people or bodies. A newspaper headline reads "The Dead Walk", reporting that the T-virus has escaped from the Hive and spread to the city surface. In the final scene, Alice arms herself with a pump action shotgun retrieved from an abandoned police car and stands in the middle of the street, ready for action. Ashford created the T-virus to help his crippled daughter Angie walk again. Unfortunately, this beneficial virus, created to cure dysfunctions and anomalies in the living human body, has disastrous effects on dead ones. There are two methods of transmission: by inhalation of the airborne form and by being bitten (even scratched) by a T-virus-infected creature/zombie. This occurrence is explained in the first film where the Red Queen (<a href="/name/nm0225375/">Michaela Dicker</a>) reveals that the T-virus goes from the transition process of liquid to gas in a matter of hours. The virus was vented out through the ground after Umbrella reopened the Hive (which was located under Raccoon City). Apparently the virus or some form of it has the ability to reanimate dead bodies. Its effects upon vegetation and fungi are unclear, but a clue is given in the third film. Rain (<a href="/name/nm0735442/">Michelle Rodriguez</a>) was bitten more than four times (on the arms, hands, and neck.) so the virus spread much faster through her system. Olivera (<a href="/name/nm0004912/">Oded Fehr</a>) was only bitten once on the arm. Nemesis is a mutation of Matt Addison from the first film. As Nemesis, he is genetically altered and conditioned as part of "Project: Nemesis" to obey the Umbrella Corporation's commands. Partly "robotic" he may be, he is cyborg and mostly biological, as he has living tissue as most of his bodily structure. Yet, he still has some sort of computerized interface, as shown during his attack on the STARS team. The interface is most likely a device similar to a removable mind-control apparatus that appears in one of the sequels and attached to another character. No explanation is given in the films, but there is no reason to believe that they are from the same breed of Licker. In the first film, the Red Queen keeps the identity of the Licker a secret until she explains it as "one of the Hive's early experiments." It's possible that the Lickers in Apocalypse were a later variety or were given a different variant of the T-virus. Just in case you're a big fan of this flick and you can't get enough, take the German DVD release into consideration because it features an extended version of the movie which runs approximately 4 minutes longer than the R-rated theatrical release. Most of the new scenes feature some story extensions or jokes that help to improve the movie a bit because this extended version is more laid-back than the stiff and well-known action-orgy of the theatrical version. The blast from the nuclear detonation over Raccoon City catches the helicopter evacuating Alice, Jill, Angela, Carlos, and J.L., causing it to crash in the Arklay Mountains on the outskirts of the city. Two hours later, Alice is rescued and taken to an Umbrella research station in Detroit, Michigan. No other bodies are recovered in the wreckage. Terri's footage blaming Umbrella for creating the zombies and the T-virus is proclaimed a hoax, and Umbrella releases a coverup story blaming it all on the explosion of a nuclear power plant, noting that Jill Valentine and Carlos Olivera are wanted for questioning. Three weeks later, Alice awakens nude in a water tank. Dr Isaacs (<a href="/name/nm0322513/">Iain Glen</a>) orders the water to be purged from the tank and Alice released. When they attempt to question her in order to find out what she remembers, Alice replies, "My name is Alice, and I remember everything." Clad only in a towel, Alice fights her way out of the hospital only to be confronted by dozens of armed guards. Suddenly, a car drives up and Carlos and Jill, disguised as Top Security Umbrella officers, collect Alice and drive away. Back inside the hospital, Dr Isaacs orders the guard at security gate to "Let them go." In the final scene, Isaacs says, "Program Alice activated," and a close-up of her eye shows a flashing Umbrella logo, while Alice sits silently, unresponsive to her friends' questions. "Program: Alice" is the code name used by Umbrella's scientists to turn Alice into a super bio-weapon at the end of the film. Alice has already been genetically modified with enhanced strength and abilities at the end of Resident Evil, but she now has additional mental powers, i.e. psionics (including telekinesis). No. Alice did not die and that was not a clone. When Alice died, Umbrella injected her with more of the T-virus, bringing her back to life with psionic powers. They say that she was the actual Alice and, in Resident Evil: Extinction, they confirm that Alice is the original Alice and that they did not start the clones until Extinction. There were some newspaper clippings in Jill Valentine's apartment that said "STARS operative Jill Valentine and others are on temporary suspension after a mission in the Arklay Mountains", which implies that the Mansion Incident in the first game did happen in the movie universe but was not shown. This would explain how Jill knew so much about the zombies and the T-virus. No mention is made of Chris Redfield or any of the other survivors. So the events took place, but the way they happened are drastically changed. In the video games, the Lickers are without eyes (their exposed brains hover where the eyes would be), and they rely on their sense of hearing to attack. In the movies, the Lickers are not blind since it shows things through the Lickers' vision, although their "vision" could have been radar sense. The song is titled "Not Listening" by Papa Roach.