Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)

Pretty much exactly what I'd feared -- all the idiocy of a Paul W.S. Anderson screenplay without the saving grace of his gifted eye for visuals. Just thinking about the contrivance and stupidity here makes my head hurt. F'rinstance, if the virus has gotten loose, what good does locking down the city do? Since the opening of the first film made it plain that the virus can be transmitted through vents and stuff and not just through human contact, shouldn't it be airborne as well? And how exactly does a company as all-encompassing as the Umbrella Corporation get away with stuff like this? I mean, this is way beyond animal testing. You'd think some activist somewhere would have gotten wind of this. And what the hell is Jill Valentine actually doing in this film anyway? I'm also docking the film an extra half-grade for having the audacity to have its characters kill zombies... by breaking their freakin' necks. That's a new specimen of stupid I'd yet to encounter.

Grade: D+