DeathofInk or maybe a monster road trip with a tyrant, nemesis, a crimson head, licker, and hunter. It’s stupid but fun stupid. Then again there is some fun stupid in these movies too.
Nemesis can take a shit ton of bullets, and kill 12 S.T.A.R.S members, yet Alice can take him out with a few punches and a kick, and turned him good. Ok
Late to this and it's definitely a case of Mary Sue Alice but in re3 (ps1) Jill can waste several shotgun shells,handgun bullets,grenades and magnum rounds before dropping that behemoth for a moment and other times just shove him from great heights like the strongest person alive. Atleast they didn't have a hand to hand battle to the death though. Alice could never make him see stars like Jill could.
@@jj80808 If they wanted a more "hint" at the games they could have just use 2 rockets against him, since that is how much damage he can take in re3 if you use that weapon, also screw that minigun, nemesis never used that shit.
if Paul Anderson could just go make a movie called "Isn't my wife awesome?" instead of keeping up this pretense of these movies being Resident Evil movies, then that would be nice.
If Paul want his wife to be the main character so much. then why didn't he just cast her as Jill Valentine? instead of making a ridiculas super hero character that doesn't make sense in the Resident Evil world.
Yeah the movie should of had Jill as the main character and had the story about the mansion incident. Yeah Konami does suck i was so looking forward to that new Silent Hill game. I also want HD remakes of SH1,2,3,4 on my PS4 like Capcom is doing with Resident Evil with 1 and Zero
+George Latimer they didn't remake re 1 and zero for ps4. they remastered them >W< also, HD remake of SH 1 is..yes, possible..but 2 an 3 already ha a hd remaster. and failed. and no one would do a 4 now. so the series is dead
man, you weren't kidding about that resident alice shit, I see that church scene, when alice bursts through, and all I can imagine is a reality where alice just crashes into other zombie movies, just like "Nope, Resident Alice"
At least with the first movie they had original characters and ideas and played it serious. With apocalypse onward they just shoehorn characters and ideas from the games but essentially just have Alice overshadow all of them.
I don't watch these movies, because every time I do... I lose count how many times I end up saying "oh for fuck sake" whenever Alice shows up to 'kick ass' *cough* 'scene steal'.
Wow, I kinda felt like Alice was a Mary Sue with that first one and a bit the first time I saw this one, but HOLY HELL! Seeing it again like this, this new character totally upstages the main character at EVERY turn and somehow makes the story all about her. Undeniable; Alice *is* a Mary Sue~
Looking at how Resident Evil: The Final Chapter retconned the origin of the T-Virus to be made by someone else, for the exact same reasons, it could have been a cleaver way to bring Angela Ashford back into the story, revealing that Alice was a clone of her the whole time and tying the previous films together. NAH! Just pretend that the other films didn’t exist and contradict everything you set up.
What these movies need:🤓 1. No Alice😩 2. No Mary Sue😠 3. Less CGI 🤢 4. More Practical Effects 😍 5. Stick to the original plots of the games as best as possible.🤓 6. No non-canon characters.😒 7. Music from the games.😌 MAKE IT HAPPEN! 🧐
I agree on 1, 2, 5 and 6, but 3 and 4 are kinda excessive. You gotta remember these movies have a thing called budget, and that budget has to go through casting, and makeup and practical effects, things like these. And we gotta remember, this is a movie about Raccoon City as much as it is about Jill and Nemesis, so casting a bunch of people to play zombies and Lickers and all of that would be kind of hard to do. Especially when they have to build sets and props and costumes. Also, 7, that could be cut too, since some of the music from the games was reused from classical musicians like Beethoven, with only a few original songs to spice things up. It started having more original songs after RE 4 onwards, but RE 1 through 3 was pretty obvious about it (Moonlight Sonata, anyone?). Plus, if you only used songs from the games, all you'd have is a playlist of the best songs of Resident Evil, like it was with the Silent Hill movie, and we all saw how _that_ turned out.
Jill`s "weapon training" to the reporter girl was awfull, now imagine she would be a surf instructor, it would go like this: "BENT YOUR KNEES USE YOUR ARMS!"
The RE movies with Alice really do seem like some suethor's fanfic coming to life.... I remember years ago when I was playing REmake and my friend glanced at Jill and went: "Isn't she supposed to be blonde?". I can't really blame my friend, obviously; she wasn't familiar with the video games, so my reaction was based on my opinion on the movie series. But goddamn, that poor girl, I must've given her the slowest head-turn and the most disgusted face she's ever seen...
+Annausagi2 I know those comments are old and such, but I'm actually curious about when this whole situation with your friend happened. Because Blonde Jill appears in the games before she ever does in the movie. By at least one year.
Hell stars actually trying to take nemesis on, managing to damage him but not really phasing him while he picks them off one by one would be a better set up for him showing how bloody tough he is
+Manhunter Of Mars Fortunately, next year's film (6th entry) is the final chapter. However, I wouldn't be surprised if they went Friday the 13th on it, since both franchises promised that their respective entries (6 & 4) were their last.
I swear if I saw this garbage in theatres, when I saw Alice stealing Jill's moment the SECOND time with that cigarette explosion shit I would have walked out, that shit happening so many times in the film served no purpose other than to piss off fans of the games.
Fun fact: The guy who plays Nikolai is Zack Ward, who also played the Postal Dude and had a part in...Alone in the Dark II? Oh dear god. Looks like someone owed Uwe Boll some money at some point.
@@cartooncritique6625 That's the bizarre thing! Paul WS Anderson, like, has made REALLY GOOD movies! ...or at least, I really liked them! ...Event Horizon was good, damn it!
@@davidcolby167 I will agree with you about "Event Horizon" (at the very least). It's certainly one of my favorite Scifi/Horror films, but as the old saying goes "Even a broken clock gets it right at least once or twice a day."
Imagine if Alice was an actual RE game character. Whenever you'd play as her, you'd take no damage, get autoaim and never run out of ammo. Imagine how "fun" that'd be
I HATE how these movies are basically Mary Sue fanfiction of the director's wife, basically. Capcom should retaliate for all these times Alice steals the spotlight from the REAL game characters by... adding her as a horribly unlikeable character to the next Resident Evil game, and getting her killed off.
I hate Alice. She's the equivalent of Sam Witwicky, but even worse here. At least in Baeformers, at least the Autobaes can actually do something (horrible things that goes against their characterization, philosophies and manners, but still something). Here, *everything* takes a backseat to Alice. Hell, the Resident Evil live-action movies strays so far away from the source material just to focus on Milla Jovocich's character, you might as well change the name of everyone else and even the title (like "Alice's Unofficial sequel quintogy of Alice's Ultraviolet, starring Alice"). I've never seen a single character completely break a film series like this. It's almost as if Jovocich is married to the direc- -Oh.
More like "Alice in Zombieland" would be fitting name to this series. Having title "Resident Evil" is just an insult. Resident Evil is one of my favourite game franchises.
How do you hide nuking an entire city? Surely, some of the thousands of citizens probably phoned relatives or friends who lived outside Racoon City and told them what was happening. And how do you explain the city suddenly becoming a giant nuclear wasteland? And what about the major economic damage due to all the businesses being destroyed?
Apocaflix Good question given the sheer number of casualties, it seems impossible for the Umbrella Corporation to have the means to conceal such a catastrophic event. In this universe, the population of Raccoon City was 654,763, which is roughly six times larger than its in-game counterpart.
Phelan Porteous That was a really good one! I also love his coalition with Necroscope86 on stream playthroughs of Resident Evil 1 and 2, they're good fun.
I mean it literally, this Mary Sue shit popping in to media we like is the same crap we came up with when we were 9-11. Huh, nine eleven, I wasn't even trying to do that. How fitting.
+UnCreative Deconstuctionism Have you not paid attention? She's a flawless "character" that Paul WS Anderson created that is so perfect that the real characters from the games look inferior and incompetent by comparison.
9:35 Barry Burton has a point. In reality S.T.A.R.S. should be able to flank Nemesis, and learn its weaknesses. I think that's what S.T.A.R.S. did before the events of Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, as some S.T.A.R.S. members still survived their first encounter with Nemesis. In Resident Evil: Apocalypse, however, S.T.A.R.S. are a bunch of morons who do nothing but act as redshirts so the writer (Paul W.S. Anderson) can make HIS character look better by comparison. Hell, Alice is the protagonist of Apocalypse, whilst Jill was the main character in Nemesis, so I think the resulting movie was executive meddling, like the director wanted to do a faithful adaptation of the third game, but the writer and executives screwed with it.
I love how even tho Nemesis was Matt the whole time, I wonder is he fighting Alice when his main objective is to kill Jill (and other S.T.A.R.S. members like Chris & Barry in Afterlife & Retribution).
They're both wrong. Alice isn't even in the games. The reason Alice is an overpowered Mary Sue is because her actress is married to writer and director Paul Anderson.
Phelan, you REALLY should've talked about what was probably one of the stupidest moments in the movie: The scene where Angela's car gets SMASHED TO PIECES by a random truck for no fucking reason other than plot convenience. And the truck doesn't even stop or swerve afterwards, just keeps on going like nothing happened. And it's never even brought up again. Why did that truck destroy Angela's car, and why wasn't there an explanation for what caused it to do so? I'm certain that the T-Virus couldn't have gotten THAT far into the city at that point in the movie, so I doubt that the driver was infected, or why it took Umbrella so damn long to try recovering her until AFTER the infection was widespread. Phelan, if you still reply to your comments, could you share your opinion on the scene since it went unmentioned in the video?
Note how Alice was giving a cocky smile at the security camera. Would have fixed it if Alice became the villain of the series as an immoral, cold monster, but this being Paul W. S. Anderson flaunting his own wife at people like a git, of course that wouldn't happen.
they turned s.t.a.r.s from a handpicked group of a couple people, spilt into two teams, into a billion random men all wearing a outfit that loosely resembles chris’
Great news Phelan: there's gonna another movie. It's to be called The "Final" Chapter, you know, like every other franchise in the world. Also, there was a lady who did stunts for the recent star wars movie, but unfortunately whilst doing a motor cycle stunt for the upcoming RE movie, she crashed, and her arm was amputated. This franchise does nothing but terrible things to mankind. EDIT: It's a shame that Jared Harris had to be in this. He's a good actor.
My favorite part is where Alice stole Claire's moves from RE: Code Veronica. The falling back, dropping the pistol move that Claire does in the opening CGI scene.
It sure is a good thing Alice covered herself and that child in a tarp so that the heat from those flames could melt it, causing the two to be horribly burned and fused together! :D Oh, that didn't happen for some reason. I dunno, I thought plastic was something that melted when exposed to flames. Guess not when used by ALICE, THE MOST MARY SUE RESIDENT EVIL CHARACTER!
I watch Resident Evil movies all the time it's my guilty pleasure. After I watch one sometimes I like to watch your review of that movie cause you catch something and describe it such a funny way makes me laugh out loud , for real,lol, I've seen them all many times! Like Alice on motorcycle in a church, great stuff , really enjoy your reviews look forward to seeing more, there Awesome!
Some say that Phelous will respond to comments sometimes, so I got a question. Whats the tune played at this review's title screen? I can't find it anywhere!
Phelan Porteous Oh god that is going to be a painful one to watch, thought there were only 3 movies in the series till now. There really should have only been that many, if that. It was Kiko that made me fall in love with Barry I played all the games long after they came out.
They f*cking ignored the fact that he was a badass villain. A greedy merc selling his services to the highest bidder, and not caring sh*t about his own men. As I said, Badass
Same here, buddy. Same here... I only watched this one for Nemesis but seeing what they did to Nicholai, I about had a stroke and wrote off the rest of the franchise.
Assimandeli Nope. If you'd like to see RE's take on a character with inhuman powers, kicking the ass of nightmarish creatures done right, look into Devil May Cry.
Assiman Director Paul W.S. Anderson, if you want your hot wife to star in an action movie series, don't let her play a Resident Evil character that never appeared in the games, and make her do all the kills.
i think the "he was a valuable asset. I don't even care about these people" was trying to make a reference to "if i can do this to someone i love, imagine what i could do to someone i hate" and completely 100% botched it up lol
Not gonna lie this is actually my favourite RE movie. Like they actually tried with this one. Jill was bad ass, Nemesis looked amazing, plus we also get to see Raccoon City, Carlos, and friends, and even some S.T.A.R.S team members :)
To prepare for her role, Sienna Guillory actually bought a PlayStation 1 Console and a copy of the game to study the Jill Valentine character. She also based her movements of Jill by watching the way Jill moved in the game Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (1999). The movie uses elements of the plots of Resident Evil 2 (1998) and Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (1999). The dogs were not computer-generated. Just like with the first film make-up was applied to them, though it also proved troublesome to train the dogs to not kick off the makeup and prosthetic The character of Dr. Ashford is named after the Ashford family of the Resident Evil game series. However, unlike the sympathetic film character, the Ashfords of the games were villains. Although the word "zombie" is never used in the film, it is featured in the ending credits. German comedian Tom Gerhardt who portrayed the infected father in the gate closing sequence, is credited as "zombie dad". All other zombies are credited as "undead". at around 1h 10 mins) In the ending fight, the words "Finish him" are used, this is straight from the Mortal Kombat games, Paul W.S. Anderson also directed the Mortal Kombat (1995) movie. Sienna Guillory is a natural blonde. To play the brunette Jill Valentine, she had to dye her hair a dark brown. Michelle Latimer's debut. Nikolai is one of villains in Resident Evil: Nemesis. However he is portrayed as a hero. Mikhail from the games is replaced by original character Yuri. Oded Fehr is of Israeli descent, however, Carlos Oliviera is Brazilian (His ethnicity is ambiguous but rumoured to be Pardo or Native Brazilian. His surname is Portugese.) The cement truck that smashed into the umbrella SUV is like the cement truck in resident evil 3 the video game At the beginning that separated Jill and Leon When the group escapes the building after Alice's showdown with Nemesis, former Evanescence drummer Rocky Gray is one of the undead in the mob that storm the rooftop right before the missile hits. (at around 8 mins) The newspaper with the headline "The Dead Walk!" is an homage to George A. Romero's Day of the Dead (1985), in which exactly the same newspaper headline was displayed. Oded Fehr had little difficulty in playing a character so familiar with handling guns - he was trained in the Israeli army. at around 39 mins) "STARS" is the only word ever spoken by the Nemesis, it's also the only word he ever speaks (repeatedly) in Resident Evil 3: Nemesis (1999). The suit for Nemesis weighed in excess of 60 pounds. Stuntman Matthew G. Taylor could only stay in it for periods of up to 15 minutes before it got too hot. As in the first film, the zombies were mainly all professional dancers. They attended an "undead boot camp" where two of the cardinal rules were no dragging feet and no outstretched arms. The word Biohazard appears many times in the movie. This is a reference to the Japanese versions of the games. In Japan the series of games is called Biohazard.
the "my shit is custom" line is equivalent to the "oh pleeeeeaase" tow truck guy from men in black who was going to tow the cockroach alien's bug van and should have ended the same way: showing someone that you have a gun too does not stop them from shooting you with theirs which is already pointed at you.
Great review as always. After watching the Mike Epps stand up comedy special on Netflix I have to say that he is a poor choice for comedy relief. His special needed comedy relief... That's just my opinion though. I don't get why Hollywood thinks we need comedy in our horror/thriller movies. Like if I don't laugh I will be too scared to watch the rest of the movie. It would be interesting to see them make a true adaptation of the game. When I played the first RE game I was in 6th grade, it scared the crap out of me at that time. It was the first game that got to me like that and I loved it!
If Paul W.S Anderson was smart and thought things through, maybe he would have made Milla Jovovich Jill Valentine instead of Alice who was never in the RE games.
The sound seems to desync around the 5:30 mark (right after Alice crashes through the glass), out of sync with the video by about 5-10 seconds. Continues for the rest of the video. I don't remember this being an issue last time I watched this review. Anyone else have this problem?
Just watching this review before Resident Evil 3 Remake comes out next week. Playable demo promises as good treatment as RE2 got last year, and unlike this film series, the games series is looking to have a renaissance age.
You forgot the stupidity of the fact that they're detonating a 5 kiloton nuke on the metropolis when that would only cover 2.7 sq miles. Not exactly a city leveling bomb.
Even though we lost hope after Apocalypse, I think this was the best sequel we got, mainly because it’s the closest we’ll ever be getting a live action Resident Evil film that is close to the source material. Beyond Apocalypse, just forget it.
It's one of the few things from the game that makes sense, as awful and inconsistent as the live action sequels were. In code veronica, the same thing happened at the start, because the virus was dispersed into the atmosphere and turned the rain into t-virus rain which got into the soil and likely infected the bodies in the graveyard. A little flimsily done in the movie but there ya go
i have a theory that everything after this is just alice's dying fever dream. jill and friends made it out alright and went on to battle umbrella in a much better film series that we never got to see.
