Tagline: The infection is spreading faster than anyone could have anticipated.
She thought they were contained. She thought she was free. She was wrong. Milla Jovovich returns as Alice, who awakens from a terrible sleep to find her worst fears realized — the bloodthirsty Undead, which she and a now-annihilated squad of elite military fought to destroy, have been unleashed on the city that surrounds the secret facility of the Umbrella Corporation. Discovering she was an Umbrella experiment, Alice has been bio-genetically enhanced with new strengths, senses and dexterity… and she will need them.
In the heart of the ravaged Raccoon City, a small group of uninfected people, including Jill Valentine (Sienna Guillory) — a recently demoted member of Umbrella Corp’s elite Special Tactics and Rescue Services (S.T.A.R.S.) team, and S.T.A.R.S. team leader Carlos Olivera (Oded Fehr), fight for their lives against swarms of Undead and the deadlier and faster Lickers.
Running out of luck and resources, the group is rescued by Alice, and they begin to wage an exhilaratingly desperate battle to survive and escape before the Umbrella Corporation erases its experiment from the face of the earth. Their only hope lies somewhere within Raccoon City… Dr. Charles Ashford (Jared Harris), one of the leading scientists for the Umbrella Corporation, will help Alice and the others escape the city safely — if they find his daughter. Angie Ashford (Sophie Vavasseur) became separated from her father and now hides in fear. Alice, Jill and Carlos will have to fight their way through an army of Undead to save her.
All the while, a secret weapon code-named Nemesis has been experimentally altered with greater modifications than Alice and has been programmed to track and destroy them — if the relentless, ravenous Undead don’t get to the group first. Alice, Jill and Carlos will need all of their strengths and skills to fight the battle of their lives against the mindless evil that has infected the city and the powerful forces that unleashed it on mankind.
Resident Evil: Apocalypse is a 2004 science fiction action horror film directed by Alexander Witt and written by Paul W. S. Anderson. It is the second installment in the Resident Evil film series, which is based on the Capcom survival horror video game series Resident Evil.
Borrowing elements from the video games Resident Evil 2, 3: Nemesis, and Code: Veronica, Resident Evil: Apocalypse follows heroine Alice, who has escaped the underground Umbrella facility and must band with other survivors including Jill Valentine and escape Raccoon City alive.
The film opened to theaters on September 10, 2004. On a budget of $40 million, the film grossed $51 million domestically and $129 million worldwide, surpassing the box office gross of the previous installment. Resident Evil: Apocalypse received mostly negative reviews from critics, who praised the action sequences but criticized the plot. The film was released to DVD on December 28, 2004.
Actors portraying zombies were trained at a zombie “boot camp” where they were coached to act as “zen” zombies and “liquid” zombies. Anderson and other crew members intended to make the zombies move faster but decided that it would be breaking a fundamental element of the games. The design for Nemesis was to include an actor in a suit (Matthew G. Taylor) with only special effects applied to certain parts of the character’s body, such as the eye.
The Lickers were fully computer-generated, though the use of physical puppets was originally considered. To avert issues faced during production, the CGI work of the Lickers began early. The film was filmed on location in Canada, with the film entering pre-production stages in mid-2003. Principal photography was slated to originally begin in July 2003, before being bumped up to August 6, 2003.
The film was shot in Ontario, Canada, with Toronto and its surrounding suburbs being a stand-in for Raccoon City. It was originally feared that production would be shut down due to the 2003 SARS outbreak in Toronto.
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Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
Directed by: Alexander Witt
Starring: Milla Jovovich, Eric Mabius, Oded Fehr, Sienna Guillory, Jared Harris, Sandrine Holt, Mike Epps, Thomas Kretschmann, Sophie Vavasseur, Razaaq Adoti, Dave Nichols
Screenplay: Paul W.S. Anderson
Production Design by: Paul D. Austerberry
Cinematography by: Derek Rogers, Christian Sebaldt
Film Editing by: Eddie Hamilton
Costume Design by: Mary E. McLeod
Set Decoration by: Steven Essam
Art Direction by: Nigel Churcher
Music by: Jeff Danna
MPAA Rating: R for non-stop violence, language and some nudity.
Distributed by: Sony ScreenGems
Release Date: September 10, 2004
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