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Genre: Action | Adventure
Resident Evil: Apocalypse released in 2004 is the sequel of the 2002 action horror film Resident Evil. Casts of this movie are Milla Jovovich (as Alice, the lead character of Resident Evil film series) , Sienna Guillory (as Jill Valentine), Oded Fehr (as Carlos Olivera) , Mike Epps (as L.J.),Thomas Kretschmann (as Major Timothy Cain), Jared Harris (as Dr. Charles Ashford), Sandrine Holt (as Terri Morales), Sophie Vavasseur (as Angela Ashford), Iain Glen (as Dr. Sam Isaacs) and Matthew G. Taylor (as The Nemesis).
Resident Evil: Apocalypse mainly borrows elements from Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, and Resident Evil: Code Veronica.
A third movie in the trilogy is currently in production, Resident Evil: Extinction, due to be released on September 2007.
Movie Synopsis:
A small group of uninfected people from the damaged Raccoon City, along with Umbrella Corporation's elite Special Tactics and Rescue Services (S.T.A.R.S.) team member Jill Valentine and leader Carlos Oliveira battle for their lives against swarms of Undead and the deadlier and faster Lickers. With a small amount of resources and luck left, Alice came to rescue the group.
Dr. Charles Ashford, a scientist of the Umbrella Corporation, made a deal with Alice and the rest of her companions that he will help them to escape the city safely if they find and rescue his lost daughter Angie Ashford. Alice, Jill and Carlos will have to fight their way through an army of Undead to save Angie. But Alice was stabbed by a loose pole when protecting Angela Ashford while in the helicopter. Then Dr. Isaacs, retrieve Alice from the helicopter wreckage to examine her.
Until Alice gained her consciousness and finds out that she has been genetically transformed by the exposure from T-virus, not knowing how it happened to her. It is revealed that Dr. Sam Isaacs reanimated Alice with the T-virus, enhance her with keen senses, new strenghts, dexterity and telekinetic abilities. These abilities would match and destroy a secret weapon code-named Nemesis has been experimentally altered with greater modifications.
Movie Trivia:
- Resident Evil: Apocalypse's trailer was one of the most viewed trailers on the internet with 8.5 million downloads from November 2003 to May 2004.
- Natasha Henstridge was asked to play the role of Jill Valentine, but could not accept due to other work commitments.
- Rapper/actor Snoop Dogg was originally chosen to play the role of L.J..
- During the church scene, when Alice fires at the motorcycle to kill one of the Lickers, the slow motion bullets have the Umbrella logo on the rear of the shells.
- The term "Biohazard" appears several times in the movie as a reference to the Japanese versions of the Resident Evil games known as Biohazard.
- The Umbrella headquarter's exterior shot as seen at the end of the movie is actually Toronto's Exhibition Palace.
- Zombies are part of the Resident Evil: Apocalypse as well as the other series but the word "zombie" was never used in this particular film. They used the term "undead" instead.
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