This movie is a continuation of the previous movie, almost as if no time has passed. Alice wakes up in the hospital with needles in her arms and head. Whatever they, The Unbrella Corporation, were pumping into her enhanced her abilities.
Apocalypse revolves around the virus escaping The Hive because The Umbrella Corporation just wouldn't leave it alone. Umbrella opened up the Hive because they wanted to know what went wrong. The team that went into The Hive was attacked and left the doors open allowing the zombies out.
The zombies escaping prompts a protocol for Umbrella where some of the top scientists and executives are evacuated before the civilians can be allowed to leave, assuming that they aren't infected. One of the scientists is Dr. Ashford, played by Jared Harris, who is taken away, but anxious to get his daughter out as well. The vehicles that Angie Ashford, played by Sophie Vavasseur, is in is hit by a semi truck. The two agents that were with Angie appear to be dead, while we see Angie move her fingers telling the audience that she is alive.
Using his computer, Dr. Ashford locates his daughter, but there is evidence of zombies in the area. Therefore, Dr. Ashford looks for recruits to help save Angie.
Before we get to this point though, we meet Terri Morrales, Jill Valentine, L.J., Carlos Olivera, and Sgt. Peyton Wells. It is a combination of these characters and Alice that eventually locate Angie and bring her to safety.
My three favorite scenes are pretty cool, two of them have Alice fighting the creature from the Nemesis Program.
The first scene is when Alice and Nemesis fight for the first time. The best part of the scene is when Alice escapes down a trash shoot in a police precinct. While falling down the shoot one of Alice's fingers gets caught on some fencing and either brakes or dislocates. Nemesis fire a rocket down the shoot, but Alice escapes anyway. The end of the scene is when Alice fixes her finger.
The second scene I liked was the scene when the rescuers get to the school that Angie has taken refuge in. As they search the school for Angie, Terri is attacked by several children who have been turned into zombies. L.J. is attacked by a zombie, but Carlos saves him. Jill locates Angie and tries to reconnect with the others from her group. Jill takes Angie through the Cafeteria not knowing that there are zombie dogs loose in the school. They get trapped in the kitchen and Jill eventually turns all the gas burners of every stove on intending to blow up the kitchen with the dogs inside. The book of matches Jill throws into the kitchen fails to set the gas off, but Alice arrives and throws a lit cigarette in... KABOOM!
The third scene I liked was the final fight scene between Alice and Nemesis. Umbrella wants to see who is better. Between the two the fight is pretty evenly matched. Alice, however, impales Nemesis on a piece of steel. Alice eventually realizes that Nemesis is Matt, the only other survivor of the battle in The Hive from the first movie.
I won't give away the ending of the movie. Suffice it to say that Alice "survives" yet again. If that is too much of a spoiler alert, I apologize, but you would have figured that out if you looked at the cast for the next movie in this series. Hint, Alice is the central character for the movies, she survives through the end of the fifth movie... and beyond.
I give this movie 9 Stars out of 10. The fight scenes are better and more elaborate. Milla Yovovich is sexy as hell, even as a zombie killing machine. Sienna Guillory is another sexy zombie killing machine and is perfect as Jill Valentine. Oded Fehr is another great casting choice for Carlos.
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