Call me mad but I enjoyed the first “Resident Evil” film. I enjoyed its confusing narrative and its set-up. However, “Resident Evil: Apocalypse” isn’t as pleasing as this goes for the more conventional zombie film feel and joins the ranks with the majority of videogame movies such as “Hitman” and “Doom”.

In “Apocalypse”, the insanely rich corporation of Umbrella re-open their old underground science labs. The virus that caused so much chaos before is once again released and Raccoon City falls. Alice (Milla Jovovich “The Fifth Element”) is back as she tries to find a way to escape the city before it gets nuked so the race is on.

Milla Jovovich is good as usual here and the scene where she comes crashing through into a church on a motorcycle to fight some monsters is kind of funny… I’ll admit that. The other characters are severely bland but that’s no surprise to me as this was the case for the first film and the majority if not all zombie films (no I’m not including comedies such as “Army Of Darkness”). The zombies are a bit dull and the only new type of creature really is dumb as he wears armour to protect him from endless bullets but lacks a helmet.

“Resident Evil: Apocalypse” may entertain some people a lot more than the original as it does take the more common zombie movie route but I think that does it no favours whatsoever. The first film was cryptic so the sequels should provide answers, instead of this it provides us with more questions but we don’t care enough to ask them. The movie feels awfully like “Escape From New York” but where that film impressed, this one wants us to indulge in explosive but lacklustre action. It’s dumb, it’s violent, it feels very lengthy despite the short runtime and it’s not much better than “Alien vs. Predator”.