Resident Evil: Apocalypse
A genetically enhanced survivor leads a desperate team through a quarantined city overrun by zombies, mutants, and Umbrella Corporation’s engineered killer.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Easy to follow
- Violence
- Graphic
- frantic
- visceral
- foreboding
- late night horror marathon
- action movie night
What critics said
Critics broadly found the sequel generic, poorly written, and padded, though some acknowledged its brisk visceral action and Milla Jovovich’s screen presence.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Alice discovers that Umbrella Corporation used her as an experiment while deploying increasingly modified biological weapons.
Umbrella seeks to erase Raccoon City and its infected population rather than accept responsibility for the outbreak.
Alice and Jill Valentine drive the action through gun battles, hand-to-hand combat, and tactical survival sequences.
The survivors move through ravaged Raccoon City while Umbrella seals the area and prepares to destroy it.
Films like Resident Evil: Apocalypse, and why
Resident Evil: Extinction
Shares zombie horror, militarized survival action, bioengineering conspiracies, and a female action protagonist.
Dawn of the Dead
Combines urban zombie outbreak horror, tactical gunplay, mutant enemies, and frantic survival escape.
28 Weeks Later
Features corporate biopunk conspiracy, engineered monsters, outbreak containment, and high-energy science fiction horror.
Underworld
Shares girls-with-guns action, dystopian epidemic imagery, and stylized combat against infected enemies.
Movie Details
- Director
- Alexander Witt
- Release Date
- 2004-09-10
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Rating
- 6.4 / 10 (4963)
Cast
- Milla Jovovich
- Sienna Guillory
- Oded Fehr
- Thomas Kretschmann
- Sophie Vavasseur
- Razaaq Adoti
- Jared Harris
- Mike Epps
- Sandrine Holt
- Matthew G. Taylor
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- Philo, AMC Plus Apple TV channel, AMC+ Amazon Channel, AMC+ Roku Premium Channel, AMC+
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home, Plex
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is Resident Evil: Apocalypse about?
- A genetically enhanced survivor leads a desperate team through a quarantined city overrun by zombies, mutants, and Umbrella Corporation’s engineered killer.
- What is Resident Evil: Apocalypse like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Resident Evil: Apocalypse as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as easy to follow.
- Is Resident Evil: Apocalypse violent?
- Yes. Ember rates the violence in Resident Evil: Apocalypse as graphic.
- What did critics think of Resident Evil: Apocalypse?
- Critics broadly found the sequel generic, poorly written, and padded, though some acknowledged its brisk visceral action and Milla Jovovich’s screen presence.
- Which films are like Resident Evil: Apocalypse?
- Films with a similar feel include Resident Evil: Extinction, Dawn of the Dead, 28 Weeks Later, and Underworld.
- How long is Resident Evil: Apocalypse?
- Resident Evil: Apocalypse runs 94 minutes.
- Where can I watch Resident Evil: Apocalypse?
- In United States, Resident Evil: Apocalypse streams on Philo, AMC Plus Apple TV channel, AMC+ Amazon Channel, AMC+ Roku Premium Channel, AMC+.
