Resident Evil: Apocalypse is the sequel to the 2002 movie Resident Evil from Screen Gems, written by Paul Anderson and directed by Alexander Witt. It was released on September 10, 2004. The next Resident Evil movie, Resident Evil: Afterlife is set to release in 2007. Tagline: My name is Alice and I remember everything. At the end of the first movie, Umbrella sent in a biohazard team to re-open The Hive a top secret research facility developed by the Umbrella Corporation containing its biological research projects including those for biological weaponry and warfare. The team is quickly overrun by the creatures and zombies contained within, and the carnage reaches the streets of the metropolis of Raccoon City 13 hours later, forcing Umbrella to quickly evacuate their important personnel and families. During this evacuation Angela Ashford, daughter of prominent Umbrella scientist Dr. Ashford, is involved in a car crash, leaving her stranded in the city.
After recieving calls sent out by the Raccoon City Police Department for off duty police members to report to duty. Ex-S.T.A.R.S. agent Jill Valentine heads to the Raccoon City Police Department to collect a few of her things and dispatch some advice to her fellow colleagues. The station is swarming with zombies who have been arrested for attacking people (the police haven't realized that the wretches are already dead). Here we meet L.J., who is handcuffed to a zombie and about to be eaten. Jill saves him.
Umbrella sets up a containment zone around the city, screening people for contamination before they are allowed to leave. When the infection reaches the screening point, Umbrella executive Major Cain issues the order to shut the gates and orders all remaining inhabitants back into the city at gunpoint, including Jill and some of their own staff that were screening inside the gates.
Alice, the amnesiac heroine and former Umbrella Security Operative, wakes up inside an Umbrella controlled experimental lab within the deserted Raccoon City hospital. She quickly proceeds to the streets of Raccoon City to find the place essentially deserted with signs of mayhem everywhere.
Jill teams up with her friend and fellow cop Peyton Wells and news reporter Terri Morales to try and find another way out. They take refuge in a church where they find themselves at the mercy of a trio of Lickers, large deadly creatures with long tongues fresh out of The Hive. With the group running low on ammo, Alice breaks through a window on a motorcycle and quickly dispatches them with the aid of her motorcycle and guns.
Dr. Ashford, who realizes his daughter may be trapped and not dead, remains on the camp outside Raccoon City with some of the containment staff where he tracks down his daughter's signal to her school. He then uses the cameras within the city to track down survivors and offers Alice and her team a way out providing they can get his daughter out safely. Ashford reveals that Umbrella is now preparing to sanitise the city by bombing it with a nuclear device in order to prevent further contamination and that they have time until sunrise.
Carlos Oliveria, a hired-gun for Umbrella, finds himself and his team abandoned by Umbrella deep inside Raccoon City where their numbers are gradually reduced by the hordes of undead advancing upon them. Carlos, Nicholai and Yuri spot an Umbrella helicopter and follow it only to see it make a drop. Upon getting to the drop they find the boxes now empty. Offscreen, they also get a call from Ashford with the same deal as Alice's team.
We find L.J., unable to get out in time and running over various undead, until he is distracted by zombie hookers and crashes his car. Now he is out on the streets. He stumbles upon a mall where the remaining members of Racoon City's S.T.A.R.S. are holed up. A sniper kills a zombie that was just about to attack him. Inside, L.J. shows off his gold plated guns and within a few minutes the S.T.A.R.S. are scrambling to fight off a huge bio-weapon named Nemesis. We cut back to Umbrella who issue Nemesis and freshly kitted out from the helicopter drop, with the order to kill all S.T.A.R.S. members which he promptly does. L.J., who is not a S.T.A.R.S. member and is not considered a threat, is subsequently spared.
Alice's team spot Nemesis from a bridge and he fires upon Jill, still carrying out his "kill all S.T.A.R.S." objective. Her colleague Payton is killed, and Alice decides to take him on while Jill and Terri try to escape. Alice finds herself outmatched because of Nemesis' heavy weaponry and makes a hasty retreat. Jill and Terri pick up L.J. and they make their way to the school. They split up to look for Angie, after which Terri meets a gruesome death at the hands of zombie children with her camera catching her final moments.
Jill finds Angie, but both are soon set upon by an undead dog which is quickly dispatched by Nicholai. He becomes overconfident and is killed by a second dog, forcing them into the kitchen. Jill hatches a plan to blow the kitchen up using the gas stoves, but her match goes out at the critical moment. Alice turns up just in time to toss a cigarette in.
Carlos meets up with the team, and Angie and Alice sense that each other are infected. Angie explains to them that her father created the T-Virus to allow her to walk (she has a spinal nerve condition), since the T-Virus regenerates dead material; the existence of the antidote, and makes claims that Umbrella took his research and used it for their own biological programs. Ashford gives them directions to where a helicopter is parked and instructs them that they will need to take it by force. Jill prompts Alice to reveal all to Terri's video camera so that the truth can get out whilst they head to the school.
They proceed to the location and take out the guards, only to find they have been set-up by Umbrella who have been monitoring Ashford's communications. Surrounded by guards, Cain instructs Alice and Nemesis to fight in another Umbrella experiment to find out who is better. Alice refuses and Cain shoots Dr. Ashford, indicating that he was valuable to Umbrella and he will not hesitate to kill the others.
In the unarmed fight that follows they reach a stalemate, until Nemesis arms himself with a chunk of steel and Cain gives Alice a stick. Alice gets the upper hand and impales Nemesis - only to come to realize it was her friend, Matt Addison (Eric Mabius), from the encounter in the Hive (the events of the first Resident Evil movie). She apologizes to him and ignores Cain's orders to finish him.
Alice is then offered a flight out, with Cain willing to leave everyone else behind. There is another battle with Nemesis taking out most of the Umbrella guards before being crushed by a helicopter that he took out with his rocket launcher. The survivors - Alice, Jill, Carlos, Angie, and L.J. - board the helicopter and push Cain out. Cain lands back on the plaza, injured and unable to run from the mass of attracted zombies descending upon the plaza. He takes a few of them out with his gun before realizing it is hopeless and decides to take his own life. Unfortunately, he is out of bullets and the zombies including Dr. Ashford. They eat him alive.
The nuclear missile strikes City Hall and the shockwave knocks the helicopter out the sky. The helicopter crashes into the heart of The Arklay Mountains where some time later an Umbrella team happens upon the crashed helicopter and find no survivors and one body, Alice.
We see Alice, three weeks later, submerged in a water tank inside another lab hooked up to various equipment via tubes and needles. The tank is drained and a confused and amnesic Alice is handled by Umbrella lab staff.
Very quickly she regains her memory and utters the tag line "My name is Alice, and I remember everything" and proceeds to fight her way out, quickly discovering her new powers, including the ability to kill a distant guard watching her on a security camera just by thinking it. Outside more guards are waiting but they are ushered aside by Jill and Carlos masquerading as Umbrella operatives. Along with L.J. and Angie, they whisk Alice away.
They are confronted once again at the security gate, where Dr. Isaacs tells the guards to let her go and informs his assistant to "activate program Alice". Alice's eyes flash the Umbrella corporate logo in response to his command. The Regenerate "commercial" was a teaser trailer for the second Resident Evil movie, and can be seen in the movie on a TV screen in the female scientist's house. It is reminiscent of the Olay product Regenerist advertisements. Regenerate (2003) is a skin care product (and registered trademark) of the Umbrella Corporation (motto: Our business is life itself), utilizing the T-Virus to reanimate dead cells and make you more youthful looking. Some side effects may occur. The teaser trailer is available from Sony Pictures in both RealMedia and Windows Media formats. Jill wears the same outfit from Resident Evil 3: Nemesis. In the abandoned church and the school, Jill moves and points the gun the exact same way she does in the game. The crash site of the helicopter is located in the Arklay Forrest near the Arklay Mountains, where the Resident Evil series first began. Apocalypse borrows concepts from Resident Evil 2 (The small child in need of rescuing), Resident Evil Code: Veronica X (when Claire runs through the building and the helicopter forces of Umbrella are shooting through the windows while she is running) and Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (the whole Raccoon City overran by the undead and the Zombie's reflection off the Police helmet when everyone in the Street battle is dead and the launching of missile to complete sanitation). When Alice kills the lickers in the church, the bullet time resembles the bullet time in Resident Evil 0. The same way Billy killed the Leech Queen, and in Resident Evil Dead Aim, when Bruce McGivern killed Morpheus D. Duvall. Like his video game counterpart, Nemesis only speaks one word ("S.T.A.R.S."). Angela Ashford is based on Sherry Birkin from Resident Evil 2. A white goddess statue can be seen in the church. Artwork of goddesses has a large role within the puzzles in the Resident Evil series. nicholais death is identical to Joseph's death (RE1 remake) which is also recorded. Alice's visit to the gun shop at the start of Apocalypse is a reference to Resident Evil 2. The same way the characters end up in Kendo's Gunshop. The graveyard scene is a reference to Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, where zombies also pop out of their graves. Various camera angles during The Hive re-opening are references to camera angles seen in Resident Evil, Resident Evil 2, and Resident Evil 3: Nemesis. While only zombies, zombie dogs, and one Licker made appeared in the first movie, three Lickers, Nemesis,a few more zombie dogs, and hundreds of zombies appear in the sequel. The Resident Evil: Apocalypse DVD was released on December 28, 2004. Special Edition features DVD features: Available subtitles: English Available audio tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1) Commentary by director Alexander Witt, producer Jeremy Bolt, and executive producer Robert Kulzer. Commentary by Milla Jovovich, Oded Fehr, and Sienna Guillory. Commentary by writer/producer Paul W. S. Anderson and producer Jeremy Bolt. Widescreen anamorphic and full-screen formats. 20 deleted scenes. Cast outtakes. Game Over: Resident Evil Reanimated. A six-part making-of Corporate Malfeasance: Featurette on the real-world similarities to the Umbrella Corporation. Game Babes: Featurette on the emergence of the female stars in the movie. Symphony of Evil: Featurette on the special effects used in the movie. Poster gallery: A collection of winning submissions created by the finalists of the online poster design contest. Number of discs: 2 This version of Apocalypse is available for the PSP. Although it has no special features the quality of picture is identical to the DVD. Widescreen - 1.78 Dolby Digital 2.0 - English, French, Spanish, Italian Subtitles - English, Portuguese, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian - Optional Movie: Jill was suspended from S.T.A.R.S. after events unknown. They are never explained. Game: Jill resigns from S.T.A.R.S. after all attempts to expose the events at the mansion are ignored or blocked by RCPD chief Brian Irons, on William Birkin's payrole. She resigns to investigate Umbrella's doings in Raccoon City full time. Movie: Raccoon City is nuked by Umbrella in an effort to cover up the outbreak. With Umbrella's marketing and economic muscle, they are able to manipulate the media into reporting that a "nuclear power plant melted down and destroyed the entire city" (despite the impossibility of a meltdown causing a nuclear explosion). Game: The US government orders a nuclear missile strike on Raccoon City after a group of Tyrants defeated elements of the armed forces in a battle near an abandoned factory on the outskirts of the town (the aftermath of this battle can be seen in RE3). Despite the political maneuvering of Umbrella, who wanted to study the effects of the city-wide infection, the strike is initiated. Movie: The T-Virus can be used for medical applications. It helped Angie to walk. Game: The only application of the T-Virus is to create bioweapons. There is no positive effect of the T-Virus and it has only been used for biological weaponry. Movie: Lickers are created by injecting the T-Virus directly into living tissue. When they taste fresh blood, they mutate. Game: Lickers are created when people infected by the T-Virus are exposed to a second dose. These creatures are accidental and were created due to the circumstances of the outbreak. They do not mutate after tasting blood. Movie: Nemesis is killed after defending Alice from gunfire. Game: Nemesis is killed after being dodged by Jill for a majority of the outbreak. After a series of battles, the Nemesis is reduced to a nebulous blob finally put to rest by two shots from the "Paracelsus Sword" weapon, a fixed magnetic coil gun brought in by US armed forces to fight off a squad of Tyrants. Movie: Nemesis does not have tentacles, but does have a Gatling Gun and Rocket Launcher. Game: Nemesis uses his NE-T Virus infected tentacles to attack enemies as well as a Rocket Launcher. Movie: William Birkin is an Umbrella researcher working on the "Nemesis Program." Game: William Birkin perfected the T-Virus and is the creator of the G-Virus (which hasn't made an appearance in the movies). An attempt on his life was the main reason for the outbreak. Movie: The outbreak in Raccoon occurred as a result of Umbrella researchers re-opening the Hive, a research facility packed to the gills with dangerous viral monsters. The city is infected within hours. Game: The outbreak occurs as a combination of monsters left over from the mansion incident and an assassination attempt on William Birkin for his G-Virus sample. As the assassin escaped with his work, he injects himself with the G-Virus and wreaks havoc. In the process, the T-Virus is spilled and the rats of the sewer are infected, slowly spreading the virus to the citizens. The city is infected in less than a week. Movie: The T-Virus is a "mutating" virus capable of supreme good and evil. Game: The G-Virus is the only virus that mutates uncontrollably and it cannot be passed by bites, but according to Anette Birkin (William Birkin's wife) "it is able to revitalize celular functions". It requires direct innoculation or embryos implanted on a genetically compatible host. However in Resident Evil 2 the T-Virus is described as "a mutagenic toxin", and even though most of its victims turn into zombies, other creatures such as the lickers, the Tyrant and (possibly) Nemesis, giant spiders, mutated sharks, and oversized lampreys are products of infection. No positive effects of the T-virus have been observed in the games. Movie: The Umbrella Corporation publicly flaunts their wealth and power. They funded the construction of Raccoon City and have great power worldwide. Game: The Umbrella Corporation is a powerful company, yet they deal mostly in secret. Though their contributions have led to the development of Raccoon City, they do not flaunt their international power openly. To the public, they've known as a simple medical/health corporation, akin to Pfizer. Movie: Nemesis was created as part of the "Nemesis Program", a project to create the ultimate bioweapon. It was created in America in the span of a few hours. It was unleashed by Umbrella within Raccoon City to test its abilities such as wiping out S.T.A.R.S. Game: The Nemesis models were created as an extension of the "Tyrant", an older similar project by the European branch of Umbrella. In the first game it is revealed that the real reason for S.T.A.R.S involvement in the mansion incident was Albert Wesker's intention to test the bioweapons against "realistic targets" (armed, trained paramilitaries/military personnel). Nemesis models take time to train and perfect. Nemesis models are trained to hunt specific targets. In RE3, it's mission was to hunt down and kill the remaining S.T.A.R.S. because they knew the truth about Umbrella thanks to the "Spencer Mansion incident." Movie: Jill, Carlos, Angie, and L.J. flee Alice from Umbrella headquarters after the Raccoon City nuking. Game: Jill and Carlos escape from Raccoon with Barry. Where they head is unknown, but it seems they still intend to meet up with Chris Redfield in Europe. Movie: Nicholai was a heroic, somewhat naive mercenary, eventually killed by two zombie dogs in the movie. Game: Nicholai is a double crossing, secret Umbrella agent, who is either killed by Nemesis, escapes in a helicopter or is shot down in a helicopter by Jill depending on the players choices throughout the game. Although due to a file in Resident Evil: Survivor, it is suggested that he lived (though the spin-offs of RE are not considered to be part of the continually growing RE plotline). The movie version of Nicholai is modeled after Mikhail, another umbrella mercenary from RE3 who died making a last stand against nemesis and allowed Jill, Nicholai and Carlos to escape. Movie: Nemesis is computer-controlled and can be programmed with commands remotely from a laptop. Game: Nemesis is autonomous, and follows his pre-set commands to wipe out S.T.A.R.S |
