Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) - Movie Review

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To prepare for her role, Sienna Guillory actually bought a PlayStation 1 Console and a copy of the game to study the Jill Valentine character. She also based her movements of Jill by watching the way Jill moved in the game Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (1999). The movie uses elements of the plots of Resident Evil 2 (1998) and Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (1999). The dogs were not computer-generated. Just like with the first film make-up was applied to them, though it also proved troublesome to train the dogs to not kick off the makeup and prosthetic The character of Dr. Ashford is named after the Ashford family of the Resident Evil game series. However, unlike the sympathetic film character, the Ashfords of the games were villains. Although the word "zombie" is never used in the film, it is featured in the ending credits. German comedian Tom Gerhardt who portrayed the infected father in the gate closing sequence, is credited as "zombie dad". All other zombies are credited as "undead". at around 1h 10 mins) In the ending fight, the words "Finish him" are used, this is straight from the Mortal Kombat games, Paul W.S. Anderson also directed the Mortal Kombat (1995) movie. Sienna Guillory is a natural blonde. To play the brunette Jill Valentine, she had to dye her hair a dark brown. Michelle Latimer's debut. Nikolai is one of villains in Resident Evil: Nemesis. However he is portrayed as a hero. Mikhail from the games is replaced by original character Yuri. Oded Fehr is of Israeli descent, however, Carlos Oliviera is Brazilian (His ethnicity is ambiguous but rumoured to be Pardo or Native Brazilian. His surname is Portugese.) The cement truck that smashed into the umbrella SUV is like the cement truck in resident evil 3 the video game At the beginning that separated Jill and Leon When the group escapes the building after Alice's showdown with Nemesis, former Evanescence drummer Rocky Gray is one of the undead in the mob that storm the rooftop right before the missile hits. (at around 8 mins) The newspaper with the headline "The Dead Walk!" is an homage to George A. Romero's Day of the Dead (1985), in which exactly the same newspaper headline was displayed. Oded Fehr had little difficulty in playing a character so familiar with handling guns - he was trained in the Israeli army. at around 39 mins) "STARS" is the only word ever spoken by the Nemesis, it's also the only word he ever speaks (repeatedly) in Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (1999). The suit for Nemesis weighed in excess of 60 pounds. Stuntman Matthew G. Taylor could only stay in it for periods of up to 15 minutes before it got too hot. As in the first film, the zombies were mainly all professional dancers. They attended an "undead boot camp" where two of the cardinal rules were no dragging feet and no outstretched arms. The word Biohazard appears many times in the movie. This is a reference to the Japanese versions of the games. In Japan the series of games is called Biohazard.

[@vitorfernandes651]

You forgot it has a scene from resident evil code Veronica too.

[@hughjass69933]

As much as I don't like the movie franchise, this is the only entry I genuinely enjoyed.

[@tedgruver7618]

I discovered that this movie was originally supposed to be titled, Resident Evil: Nemesis, much like the game it was based on. But because Star Trek beat them to the punch with their 10th movie being subtitled, Nemesis, they changed it to Apocalypse to avoid brand confusion.

[@kaitlinmojica9678]

Apocalypse and the Dawn of the dead remake were my most watched zombie movies back in the day. Had them both on DVD. I miss the early '00s so much.

[@its_a_me_paolo]

Same. Good times

[@Timelord007]

Great movies, especially Dawn Of The Dead.

[@SpeakinThaTruth69]

This franchise is actually my favorite guilty pleasure franchise and I only played the 4th game before seeing the movies (ths first three completely out of order) so I always viewed them kinda like Resident Evil fan fiction with occasional nods to the game and while that definitely didnt help make them any better they're at least fun popcorn flicks to pass time imo

[@SuperMurray2009]

I hate these films. With the exception of the first

[@masterfulwarriorplus5398]

I like Jill personality in this movie compare to her Resident Evil 3: Nemesis counterpart but hate everything Jill does Alice comes in out of nowhere and does it better in a badass way and this suppose to be Jill story with Nemesis not Alice and Carlos and Nicholai are nobodies in this movie but sad this movie suppose to been all Jill we don't know if Claire and Leon was in Raccoon City.

[@SuperMurray2009]

Let it be known one of the biggest problems in Resident Evil is nobody gets time to shine if Alice is there. They all act as cheerleaders.

[@Tyler-gq6pf]

Your intro music with the guitar sounds like it would be heard in a Doom game. This is one of my favorite Resident Evil movies and the other favorite is the original Resident Evil (2002).

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[@dalestrunk1749]

Great review man. My favorite of the franchise! Always loved Nemesis on this one

[@kingsman5121]

Ah yes nemesis and his inability to run

[@Kains_Gaming_Channel]

JESUS H CHRIST! HOW COULD THEY RUIN JILL VALENTINE????!!! SHE NEVER GOT TO FIGHT NEMESIS! THATS NEARLY A SIN!

[@CodyLeachYT]

I think they did her character pretty decent but they screwed it up by making her a background character. Thats the problem with most of these movies...Alice takes everyones spotlight.

[@Kains_Gaming_Channel]

@@CodyLeachYT . Yea. I'm a massive jill valentine fan and love the Nemesis, it hurts me that they just threw jill to the side when they encountered Nemesis.

[@kingsman5121]

@@CodyLeachYT and that she’s useless and acts like a bitchy teenager

[@SuperMurray2009]

@@CodyLeachYT Not only that. No one has a story that needs to be told except for Alice.

[@mr.checkyourself4672]

This the closest Resident Evil movie base on the games plot from RE2-RE3 with some elements of Code Veronica with the exclusion of the new Resident Evil movie coming out but this the only other movie besides the first one that is survival horror like the original Resident Evil games my dislikes of the franchise they bring in characters from the games but they play little roles cause Alice is the main character and Paul W.S. Anderson wife but however I do like the callbacks from RE2-RE3 with the cemetery scene a callback from RE3 Nemesis, Alice stopping in a gun store a callback to RE2 and the part where Alice drops her gun and grab it before it hit the ground a callback to Code Veronica.

[@SuperMurray2009]

I think Paul just started blantantly copying at this point

[@pinkpowercoin3341]

This was the first RE movie I ever saw (and I think my intro to the IP as a whole). Its just a really nice popcorn flick. Nothing too serious, just really entertaining.

[@devinharbert6071]

Honestly I Loved Resident Evil: Apocalypse it’s one of the Better a Sequels in the a Franchise

[@TwistedSMF]

I liked this one better also. I absolutely loved when Nemesis went "Starzzzzz" LMAO.. :p

[@karendover6001]

I haven't played any of the RE games, but this movie is hands down my favorite of the series. Alice gets progressively more and more overpowered and her story gets kind of tedious, but I always though Jill Valentine was the real standout here.

[@shatteredteacup91]

It's so damn funny to me that the lickers have eyes in this, being blind is such a big part of those creatures.

[@williamedmisten9884]

This is my favorite one by far its easily the most entertaining resident evil and i really enjoy mike epps character

[@Tonyoung55]

I remember watching this being disappointed because I preferred the first movie tone way better

[@JenMistress]

I'll say this is the one, Alice kinda started getting on my nerves. The first movie, I was fine with her, mostly because there wasn't that many characters from the game. This one, specially if you're throwing in Jill Valentine, nope, Jill being second fiddle to Alice shouldn't have been the case. And you're right, all throughout RE3, Nemesis, all he says is "Stars!" He's a 1 track killing machine, and him turning face, no, that doesn't work for me either.

[@JSPokemonYT]

This is my favorite entry of the film series. I give this film a 9/10.

[@thectk1000]

This one had the most fun with the source material established at the time. But with this movie a dissappointing trend became apparent that would continue through the rest of the series. In movies you can only adapt so many of the enemies and monsters from the games. The ONLY new thing in Apocalypse was Nemesis. Dogs, lickers and, of course zombies were in the first movie. And each movie only added one or two new things.

[@MoviegeekDutch]

Great video! My fav in the franchise are RE Apocalypse, RE Extinction, RE The Final Chapter….. The best ones are NOT directed by Paul WS Anderson haha

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[@codywirth8190]

What is this madness? Better than the first? Hell no. The first one is an actual solid believeable, atmospheric, bullet counting survival horror with a sick soundtrack and a unique enough story with parallels to Alice in Wonderland. Every line of dialogue in Apocalypse is pure cringe. The martial arts and zombie conbo is a ridiculous pairing. Yes, the first had that, but not to this maddening of a degree. The plot is so aimless the Nemesis is a joke. Even the action sequences suck and aren't unique. Literally 3 times characters shielded themselves from an explosion with an unconventional item the exact same way. It's literally a parody of a film. I'm ashamed we share the same name.

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[@pabloroybal41]

This movie has always been a bit of a fan favorite as far as the Paul Anderson RE movies go, but there's something about it that I've always struggled to connect with. Yes, it has a lot of references to the various games, but quite honestly I don't think that it does as good of a job of nailing that horror tone as the first movie. RE:Apocalypse almost comes across as if it is trying too hard but without ever really hitting the target. As much as it tries to be non stop action, I actually find it to be a bit boring. Nemesis looks great but I distinctly remember watching this in theaters and feeling that it was way too action oriented to be a proper Resident Evil movie. Maybe I'm not the target audience, but when I watch this movie, I get this sense that I am watching a film that was intended for 14 year olds who are perfectly happy to see one dumb action scene after another with a few winks and nods to the game. I watched it on DVD not long ago and my thoughts haven't really changed. It's not my least favorite of this franchise, but it's not a favorite either.

[@Xehanort10]

8:32 Originally the origin of the T-Virus in the films was that Charles Ashford made it to stop his daughter Angela ending up in a wheelchair like he did. But in the Final Chapter they change it to the film version of James Marcus trying to find a cure for the disease killing his daughter Alicia who Alice is retconned into being a clone of.

[@deesmith1144]

Good video Cody

[@Timelord007]

"Alice, Alice who the fuck is Alice" Lol. Great review Cody, yeah this is probably the best film in the Resident Evil franchise but it's not without flaws, I appreciate it doing its own thing but you need to incorporate the characters of the game & do them faithfully instead of just focusing on Alice.

[@Xehanort10]

Nicholai in the film is nothing like Nicholai either. In the games he's a cold hearted Umbrella supervisor trying to collect combat data from the UBCS and Jill's fights with the monsters and kills every other supervisor in the city so he could get more money. But in Apocalypse he's a good guy trying to help Carlos save civilians.

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[@Wilmeiser]

I also saw this one in theaters with my Dad who also knew nothing this franchise; only that my siblings, my cousins, and I used to play those games all the time.

[@Bananeurysm]

I still think the first one is best. It was never meant to be a direct adaptation of the games. Paul W.S. Anderson wanted to tell a story in the universe and, in that, I felt it succeeded. It seemed much more confident than this one. Even in its prime, Apocalypse always looked low-budget, borderline Straight-to-video. Nemesis looks fake as hell, and it has always bothered me that the shots of zombies moving was always 10 FPS and blurry. It’s like they were ashamed of their costume and makeup work. Feels like the general consensus regarding the first movie was, “it’s not like the games, it sucks,” so their response was to shoehorn as much content and characters from the games that it felt phoned in. Jill doesn’t talk or act like Jill, for example, so are they implying that merely dressing someone as, and naming them after, an iconic character is all it takes to satisfy us? It’s like they didn’t give a shit and passive-aggressively threw this hot garbage at us. Now to clarify, I don’t hate Apocalypse. In fact I think it’s the best sequel in the franchise. However, when you start looking at the later sequels, that seems less complimentary.

[@Hicks-g1m]

I enjoyed Resident evil Apocalypse

[@Cyberdine101]

This one felt like a Uwe Boll movie. The editing during the "fist fight" with Nemesis is amateur hour.

[@MJ-ex4nq]

To be honest this one was probably the best one in my opinion that felt like anything of reference to the video games while the rest of the movies really moved from the games alot

[@destoroyahofhope4005]

They also messed up the character of Nicholai too. Like making him a good guy? Should have made that character just somebody original if you're going to completely change the character. All in all, a fun time and the last actual good movie in this series. Most hype for The Final Chapter review cuz my god... even by the Resident Evil movie standards that one is god awful.

[@MovieProdigy25]

Resident Evil 2 is how I started my 31 movies

[@commanderghost5647]

You’ve really inspired me lol seeing as you went full time with your passion. Hopefully I can catch up on mine

[@adamhoward5404]

I think apocalypse is gold

[@gd7022]

This movie is annoying with Mary Sue Alice overshadowing Jill every chance she gets. Did not like it.

[@kingsman5121]

Get used to that because it only gets worse

[@bryandingler213]

This one is my favorite of the entire series but I HATE that every time Jill tried to be a badass fuckin Alice would steal her thunder

[@RichieCapo]

Recently discovered your channel and subscribed. Have you ever thought of doing a review of Hereditary?

[@CodyLeachYT]

I have done one. Reviewed it when it came out.

[@J-DEVTV]

This is by far my favorite one of the franchise so far! Excellent review!

[@TheMattypoo21]

Apocalypse is my favorite of the franchise. I can watch and enjoy the first two movies. I can forget about the rest.

[@xeroxolly]

I enjoyed this movie and not the others.

[@carminear1517]

Was the evil at a residence in it?

[@entertainmentwizard2703]

I really like Apocalypse and I like a few scenes of the extended cut but I mostly prefer the theatrical cut!

[@joshmyers1324]

Never even seen these movies but ur reviews are so enjoyable

[@Your_Favorite_Weapon]

I love that you're reviewing this series! One of my favorite guilty pleasure film series for sure!

[@anthonyhill9211]

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[@Wilmeiser]

While there are parts I like, there are way more that I don't. This is one I can watch, but then I'd have to power through that church scene. This was an adaption of Jill's game, she did not need to job to Alice then basically be put in the background.

[@joshuanelson6795]

The way they handled Nemesis in this movie is unforgivable to me. He gets beaten in a fistfight of all things and is then killed by a freaking helicopter that he himself shot down? For shame, Resident Evil Apocalypse.

[@kingsman5121]

And he can’t run either How the fuck your about to have nemesis not be able to RUN And he only says Stars like once WHAT THE FUCK

[@TheShadowsega75Terryman]

One of my favorite RE Movies. I still have the DVD if I could find it somewhere.

[@renegadehero7393]

I get to watch this review! Lol. 😜 I like this one too, I saw this in theatres with my granddad, good memory. I thought the girl who plays Jill did a good job, Oded Faer was good too, not a great Carlos but still decent. This movie I would say has the most likable side characters. Nemisis looks great, but I really don't like the twist. He's a terminator, don't humanize him. I agree this feels the most like the games, not a great movie but pretty good. Thanks Cody.

[@shenlochbrachass9684]

My favourite in the series although having Nemesis and Jill in it definitely helped I also kinda like Afterlife and the first one, the rest not so much Especially not Extinction the only one that genuinely bored me

[@DerykRonk]

Watching again cause I felt bad for ya haha

[@nostalgianetwork1225]

This was my first exposure to the Resident Evill Movies

[@SarahsKnight0]

*looks at the heart key from RE2 in the introduction* ... Yeah I wish.

[@AnjelCaido69]

The only Great thing about this movie is Jill Valentine

[@jasonpowell7305]

Love your review! This by far the best movie! The rest I could do without

[@Robalexe]

It's funny how out of all the Paul WS Anderson films, the best one isn't even directed by Anderson lol

[@BRIANOCONNOR2003]

But it was written by him

[@kingsman5121]

So we are gonna make an adaptation of re3 and bring Jill valentine in How about we make her a useless and unlikable side character in an adaptation of HER OWN GAME! Sure that won’t insult anyone Paul not a single person

[@CodyLeachYT]

Yep

[@kingsman5121]

@@CodyLeachYT and I’m not even that huge of a fan of Jill, but this still fucks me off. Sadly it only gets worse

[@Dontannoyme34894]

That intro was badass

[@krissymarklewis1793]

You know what Cody, I hated this one even though I am mates with one of the star's brothers that plays the professor. I just found the whole thing empty and souless.

[@ethansiedlecki8981]

Great video cody keep up the great work

[@jamesmoss3424]

Sienna Guillory is excellent as Jill Valentine. 😀👍

[@kingsman5121]

Looks the part but acts nothing like Jill So glass half full?

[@therealmovietalkplus]

Great video as always sir. I just finished this franchise to get ready for my ranking. Excited to see if we have the same thoughts.

[@filmfreak21]

Agree. Its the best in the series.

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[@markpritzlaff7065]

Love that Romero tee!

[@montman1498]

Resist evil 4 on the oculus quest 2 is fantastic man... so much fun.. step right into Leon's shoes.. literally! Lol. I remember talking with my buddies when I was a kid about vr in the future and now it's here man.. insane... you should certainly try it Cody if you haven't already.

[@midianrises1742]

Although do really enjoy this movie. Far more than the ones after. Also i feel the everything whole wrapping the story around also stems from Anderson and Jovavich being married. I feel like Rob Zombie’s movies suffers from the same thing. Too much spotlight on the significant other’s character. That you just get tired of seeing it. Especially when all the characters feel the same.

[@Wilmeiser]

Jill Valentine is my absolute favorite character, I marked out hard in the theater when she showed up; and did the opposite when Alice showed up.

[@bigkmoviesandgames]

I tried with this film because part one was ok. but when she jumped off a motorcycle, it drove up a wall on its own and she then blew it up with her gun I had to shut this stupid shit off.

[@申月営無営月無営有申]

LOL

[@jahdorose8659]

Thought it was a mistake but enjoy your content

[@ImReloading...]

Def the best of the series for me... At least this one feels more like an actual movie than the others do.. I can re watch this one everytime it's on..

[@enygma5236]

Carlos is bit in extinction not apocalypse 😳

[@lukavojinovic7246]

Sienna was just perfect for Jill, too bad she was put aside because of Alice…

[@virgogaming6488]

She was better as RE5 Jill and whooped Alice.

[@Mjuxtapose03]

Man you sold me on that surf shark! Haha

[@mtb5431]

This movie is foreshadowing how badly Jill will get shafted as the series continues on. Im not just talking about the Anderson series.

[@robertgonzales1059]

After a full day of driving, your videos just wash away all the bullshit, thank you!

[@icebergthegamer]

Although not a great movie, this movie was closest to the actual game. I enjoyed it.

[@k-trashradio5163]

sooo they have an umbrella scientist with a daughter?...why the heck would you name him ashford? why didnt they just have him be William Birkin and his daughter be Sheri Birkin from RE2?

[@CodyLeachYT]

Exactly

[@TheJokesterSCR]

I kinda enjoy the first movie. I REALLY liked this one a lot when I was younger but I more understand the gripes nowadays, but I still like it. The third movie I enjoyed about as much as the first, but then it just gets worse and worse from there with every movie.

[@kevindobson3701]

The dogs are my favorite

[@hanzo8972]

I want to see a KZbin video with no dislikes. Always someone not liking something.

[@DefConprime28]

The massacre of the STARS reminds me of ginoe issues 109-111, just pointless deaths to eliminate ancillary characters look it up

[@biohazarduncovered]

Great content, but I don't like any of these sequels, the first was decent, not amazing but not bad, overall I think they got Nemisis wrong here, in the remake and original he's like a Terminator but more feral, he can have moments of rage and run at Jill, here he's a boring generic zombie soldier with to many weapons, and he looks weird in terms of his height and stature... the thing that topped it off for me was the fist fight with Alice, it was like the director and producer wanted a WWE face off lol, it has two moments I liked, the church before Alice shows up, and the destruction of Racoon, that was done well, if I had to choose a sequel over this, I'd probably pick the one in the underground base tbh... but I prefer the original even if it is a 7/10 film.

[@ActionJackson1982]

Funny Cody likes it, and people in the comments. I remember when it came out people didn’t like it

[@xanderfoley6641]

This is the only one I loved. It’s in my top 10 zombie movies

[@kandieharrison4055]

This is my favorite and after this the rest get pretty boring to me, like I like them enough to watch them every once in a while, but this one makes me excited to watch. I even dressed up as Alice and my best friend dressed up as Jill on Halloween one time. I love the games as well and while it would have been nice if it was closer to the games, I still love the story and tend to think of it as kind of an alternate universe type thing. But I don't consider the movies "canon," I only consider the games "canon," the movies are their own thing. As for Nemesis, I LOVED HIM in this, him and Pyramid Head from Silent Hill are by far my favorite monsters and by far my favorite movie adapted monsters too. I actually don't mind that Nemesis turns good, just because it's clear that, like I said, the movies don't follow the same canon, so in this world, there's the theme that the bioweapons can temporarily fight the programming and regain control (Alice does it constantly). So it makes sense that Nemesis/Matt would be able to do it too, but clearly he had no where near as much control as Alice does and it makes sense to me that the thing that could get through to him and give him the strength to temporarily regain control, would be someone he knew and cared about: Alice. So basically, in the games, a bioweapon is simply a weapon, there is no fighting it and you can't "get through" to them, because there's nothing to get through to. But in the movies, the bioweapons retain a bit of their humanity and if they're strong enough to resist the control, they can break out of it, at least temporarily. So yeah, in terms of the movie's rules and "canon," I love that Nemesis turns good again, because to me, it makes logical sense, BUT if they had stuck with all the same rules and followed the canon of the games, then still turned him good, then I'd be mad, if that makes sense. Anyway, yeah, Nemesis is my favorite, in both the games (was a teeny tiny disappointed by him in the remake, simply because to me, he's supposed to be scarier than Mr. X and he was no where near as cool and scary as Mr. X in the RE2 remake, so Mr. X overshadowed him, lol) and the movie. "S.T.A.R.S" (in Nemesis's voice, lol) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@ianmpena]

To be honest the animated films are better than the live action movies because all of the live action resident movies directed by Paul WS Anderson suck because he needs to stop making live action video game movies and I hope the new resident evil reboot is going to be good when it's release next week because I got my hopes on the new resident evil movie

[@mars0395]

Wow. My least favorite of the six! I was going to skip it in my rewatch, but now I need to revisit it with this new perspective you've given me.

[@boomstickcritique902]

I liked this one weaker than the first my big problem is I don't like the super Alice idea the whole making her a superhero doesn't work for me. My problem is I liked the first one as its own thing as a B Horror zombie action film this one is more just a B action film with a superhero not into it as much. I found this one just alright I didn't mind Carlos or Jill and found both actors enjoyable enough. If you like this franchise it's because you like Millia this series is all dedicated to her.

[@necromancer_yoda6704]

Gonna have to disagree. I think this movie is total garbage. I despised the original but this one is way worse. I never watched any of the sequels after this. They made Nemesis a complete joke by having Alice beating him in a fistfight. Humanizing him takes away the whole idea that he is this unrelenting inhuman monster. How anyone can enjoy this movie is beyond me. But I'm glad it entertained someone at least.

[@classyredneckcinema9327]

I actually love this movie mostly nostalgia and I hadn't played the games yet I understand why fans don't like it but I love it

[@classyredneckcinema9327]

I played them now most

[@SuperMurray2009]

I would have loved this movie more if the action scenes weren't so terribly edited.

[@ernestolopez23]

Yes it’s better than the first and maybe out of the first 3 imo

[@michaelcanada6583]

This is my fav RE movie.