"Director: Alexander Witt"

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  Given that Resident Evil is a Paul Anderson movie based on a computer game which was itself highly derivative (especially of George A Romero and James Cameron films), it's probably unfair to complain that it hasn't got an original idea or moment in its entire running time. In the early 1980s, Italian schlock films such as Zombie Flesh Eaters and Zombie Creeping Flesh tried to cram in as many moments restaged from American originals as possible, strung together by silly characters wandering between monster attacks. This is a much-improved, edited, photographed and directed version of the same gambit. As amnesiac Milla Jovovich remembers amazing kung fu skills and anti-globalist Eric Mabius mutters about evil corporations, a gang of clichéd soldiers with nary a distinguishing feature between them (except for Michelle Rodriguez as a secondary tough chick) are trapped in an underground scientific compound at the mercy of a tyrannical computer--which manifests as a smug little-girl-o-gram--fending off flesh-eating zombies (though gore fans will be disappointed by the film's need to stay within the limits of the 15 certificate) and CGI mutants, not to mention the ever-popular zombie dogs. It's tolerably action-packed, but zips past its borrowings (Aliens, Cube, Deep Blue Sea) without adding anything that future schlock pictures will want to imitate. On the DVD: Resident Evil on disc has the expected trailers, both teaser and theatrical; a half-hour making-of; zombie make-up tests; featurettes on music (with Marilyn Manson), production design and costume. A lively commentary track features Anderson, Jovovich, Rodriguez and producer/zombie Jeremy Bolt--Jovovich upbraids Anderson for talking about different gradings of film stock over her nude scene and everyone else talks about how much she hurt them by punching them out during action sequences. Anderson mentions an alternate commentary track with visual effects designer Richard Yuricich, but it isn't included. --Kim Newman

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  Titles Comprise: Resident Evil: Something rotten is brewing beneath the industrial mecca known as Raccoon City. Unknown to its millions of residents a huge underground bioengineering facility known as The Hive has accidentally unleashed the deadly and mutating T-virus killing all of its employees. To contain the leak the governing supercomputer Red Queen has sealed all entrances and exits. Now a team of highly-trained super commandos including Rain Alice and Matt must race to penetrate The Hive in order to isolate the T-virus before it overwhelms humanity. To do so they must get past the Red Queen's deadly defenses face the flesh-eating undead employees fight killer mutant dogs and battle The Licker a genetically mutated savage beast whose strength increases with each of its slain victims. Resident Evil Apocalypse: The sequel to the 0 million hit Resident Evil: Apocalypse is again based on the wildly popular video game series and picks up where the first film ended. The zombies are back and so is Alice (Jovovich). Since being captured by the notorious Umbrella Corporation she has been subjected to biogenetic experimentation and has become genetically altered with super-human strengths senses and dexterity. Now she has teamed with other survivors of Earth ready to destroy any zombie in their path. After escaping from the Racoon City Medical Facility Alice searches for answers to the T-Virus and how to contain it. On the other side of town a woman named Jill Valentine plots her own escape while battling the undead and Matt Adison now transformed into a monster called The Nemesis who is bent on destroying all who live. Resident Evil Extinction: Alice (Milla Jovovich) now in hiding in the Nevada desert once again joins forces with Carlos Olivera (Oded Fehr) and L.J. (Mike Epps) along with new survivors Claire (Ali Larter) K-Mart (Spencer Locke) and Nurse Betty (Ashanti) to try to eliminate the deadly virus that threatens to make every human being undead. Since being captured by the Umbrella Corporation Alice has been subjected to biogenic experimentation and becomes genetically altered with super-human strengths senses and dexterity. These skills and more will be needed if anyone is to remain alive... Resident Evil Afterlife: Latest in the game to film franchise. In a world ravaged by a virus infection turning its victims into the Undead Alice (Milla Jovovich) continues on her journey to find survivors and lead them to safety. Her deadly battle with the Umbrella Corporation reaches new heights but Alice gets some unexpected help from an old friend. A new lead that promises a safe haven from the Undead leads them to Los Angeles but when they arrive the city is overrun and Alice and her comrades find themselves about to step into a deadly trap.

• Resident Evil 2: Apocalypse | DVD | (07/02/2005) from £4.74   |  Saving you £15.25 (321.73%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Milla Jovovich's video game action girl Alice has escaped the hive of the first flick and must now find a way through the hordes of zombies to escape Racoon City.

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  Given that Resident Evil is a Paul Anderson movie based on a computer game which was itself highly derivative (especially of George A Romero and James Cameron films), it's probably unfair to complain that it hasn't got an original idea or moment in its entire running time. In the early 1980s, Italian schlock films such as Zombie Flesh Eaters and Zombie Creeping Flesh tried to cram in as many moments restaged from American originals as possible, strung together by silly characters wandering between monster attacks. This is a much-improved, edited, photographed and directed version of the same gambit. As amnesiac Milla Jovovich remembers amazing kung fu skills and anti-globalist Eric Mabius mutters about evil corporations, a gang of clichéd soldiers with nary a distinguishing feature between them (except for Michelle Rodriguez as a secondary tough chick) are trapped in an underground scientific compound at the mercy of a tyrannical computer--which manifests as a smug little-girl-o-gram--fending off flesh-eating zombies (though gore fans will be disappointed by the film's need to stay within the limits of the 15 certificate) and CGI mutants, not to mention the ever-popular zombie dogs. It's tolerably action-packed, but zips past its borrowings (Aliens, Cube, Deep Blue Sea) without adding anything that future schlock pictures will want to imitate. On the DVD: Resident Evil on disc has the expected trailers, both teaser and theatrical; a half-hour making-of; zombie make-up tests; featurettes on music (with Marilyn Manson), production design and costume. A lively commentary track features Anderson, Jovovich, Rodriguez and producer/zombie Jeremy Bolt--Jovovich upbraids Anderson for talking about different gradings of film stock over her nude scene and everyone else talks about how much she hurt them by punching them out during action sequences. Anderson mentions an alternate commentary track with visual effects designer Richard Yuricich, but it isn't included. --Kim Newman

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  Experience the exhilarating epic journey of Resident Evil from beginning to end, with all six films on 4K Ultra-HD.

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  After narrowly escaping the horrors of the underground Hive facility, Alice (Milla Jovovich) is quickly thrust back into a war raging above ground between the living and the Undead. As the city is located down under quarantine, Alice joins a small band of elite soldiers, led by Valentine (Sienna Guillory, Love Actually) and Carlos (Oded Fehr, The Mummy Returns), enlisted to rescue the missing daughter of Dr. Ashford, the creator of the mutating T-virus. It's a heart-pounding race against time as the group faces off against hordes of blood-thirsty zombies, stealthy Lickers, mutant canines and the most sinister foe yet. Written and produced by the visionary director of Resident Evil, Paul W.S. Anderson (AVP: Alien vs. Predator) and directed by Alexander Witt, RESIDENT EVIL: Apocalypse is a superior sci-fi suspense sequel.

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  Resident EvilA team of paramilitary commandos must battle flesh-eating undead, killer mutant dogs and a supercomputer's deadly defences before an unleashed virus consumes humanity in this adaptation of the hit video game series! Resident Evil: ApocalypseAfter narrowly escaping the horrors of the underground Hive facility, Alice is quickly thrust back into a war raging above ground between the living and the undead. It's a race against time as the group faces off against hordes of blood thirsty zombies, stealthy Lickers and mutant canines. Resident Evil: ExtinctionIn the third chapter of Resident Evil, Alice joins the survivors of the Raccoon City catastrophe to travel across the Nevada desert and fight against the evil Umbrella Corporation in hopes of making it to Alaska. Resident Evil: AfterlifeAlice (Milla Jovovich) is back in the fourth installment of the Resident Evil saga. Now, without super human powers, she'll team up with fellow survivors Claire and Chris (Ali Larter and Wentworth Miller) to take on the armies of the undead and take down the Umbrella Corporation whose virus has created them.

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  Milla Jovovich's video game action girl Alice has escaped the hive of the first flick and must now find a way through the hordes of zombies to escape Racoon City.

• Resident Evil 2 - Apocalypse | Blu Ray | (07/05/2007) from £7.00   |  Saving you £12.99 (65.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The sequel to the 0 million hit Resident Evil: Apocalypse is again based on the wildly popular video game series and picks up where the first film ended. The zombies are back and so is Alice (Jovovich). Since being captured by the notorious Umbrella Corporation she has been subjected to biogenetic experimentation and has become genetically altered with super-human strengths senses and dexterity. Now she has teamed with other survivors of Earth ready to destroy any zombie in their path. After escaping from the Racoon City Medical Facility Alice searches for answers to the T-Virus and how to contain it. On the other side of town a woman named Jill Valentine plots her own escape while battling the undead and Matt Adison now transformed into a monster called The Nemesis who is bent on destroying all who live.

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  Milla Jovovich's video game action girl Alice has escaped the hive of the first flick and must now find a way through the hordes of zombies to escape Racoon City.

• Resident Evil/Resident Evil 2 - Apocalypse/Resident Evil - Extinction | DVD | (18/02/2008) from £20.23   |  Saving you £9.76 (32.50%)   |  RRP £29.99

  This box set contains the following films: Resident Evil (Dir. Paul Anderson) (2002): Something rotten is brewing beneath the industrial mecca known as Raccoon City. Unknown to its millions of residents a huge underground bioengineering facility known as The Hive has accidentally unleashed the deadly and mutating T-virus killing all of its employees. To contain the leak the governing supercomputer Red Queen has sealed all entrances and exits. Now a team of highly-trained super commandos including Rain Alice and Matt must race to penetrate The Hive in order to isolate the T-virus before it overwhelms humanity. To do so they must get past the Red Queen's deadly defenses face the flesh-eating undead employees fight killer mutant dogs and battle The Licker a genetically mutated savage beast whose strength increases with each of its slain victims. Resident Evil 2: Apocalypse (Dir. Alexander Witt) (2004): Milla Jovovich returns as Alice one of only two survivors of the contained biochemical disaster in the first Resident Evil. This film begins where the first film left off with Alice in the heart of the ravaged and deadly Raccoon City. She has been subjected to biogenetic experimentation by the vast Umbrella Corporation and become genetically altered with super-human strengths senses and dexterity. These skills and more will be needed if anyone is to remain alive. Resident Evil: Extinction (Dir. ) (2007): Alice now in hiding in the Nevada desert once again joins forces with Carlos Olivera (Oded Fehr) and L.J. (Mike Epps) along with new survivors Claire (Ali Larter) K-Mart (Spencer Locke) and Nurse Betty (Ashanti) to try to eliminate the deadly virus that threatens to make every human being undead. Since being captured by the Umbrella Corporation Alice has been subjected to biogenic experimentation and becomes genetically altered with super-human strengths senses and dexterity. These skills and more will be needed if anyone is to remain alive...

• Resident Evil 2 - Apocalypse/Ultraviolet/DOA - Dead Or Alive | DVD | (01/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ultraviolet: Milla Jovovich (Resident Evil The Fifth Element) Cameron Bright (X-Men 3) Nick Chinlund (The Legend of Zorro) and William Fichtner (The Longest Yard) star in this story of a woman caught in a futuristic civil war between the government and a subculture of disease modified humans in whom speed strength and intelligence are magnified. In the film she must fend off the human government to protect a young boy who has been marked for death. Resident Evil: Apocalypse: Milla Jovovich returns as Alice one of only two survivors of the contained biochemical disaster in the first Resident Evil. This film begins where the first film left off with Alice in the heart of the ravaged and deadly Raccoon City. She has been subjected to biogenetic experimentation by the vast Umbrella Corporation and become genetically altered with super-human strengths senses and dexterity. These skills and more will be needed if anyone is to remain alive. DOA: Dead Or Alive: You're invited... A number of fighters are invited to DOA an invitational martial arts contest where combatants are then pooled against one another in a knock-out style tournament: the conquered is sent home while the conqueror progresses to the subsequent round. Four scantily-clad female fighters begin as rivals but consequently find themselves teaming up against an altogether mightier force..... Check your brains at the door and engage your sense of shameless high-kicking fun: it's the Hollywood interpretation of Tecmo's videogame brawler Dead or Alive!

• Resident Evil 2 - Apocalypse/Resident Evil - Extinction/Doom | DVD | (22/09/2008) from £11.98   |  Saving you £13.01 (108.60%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Titles Comprise: Resident Evil: Extinction: Alice (Milla Jovovich) now in hiding in the Nevada desert once again joins forces with Carlos Olivera (Oded Fehr) and L.J. (Mike Epps) along with new survivors Claire (Ali Larter) K-Mart (Spencer Locke) and Nurse Betty (Ashanti) to try to eliminate the deadly virus that threatens to make every human being undead. Since being captured by the Umbrella Corporation Alice has been subjected to biogenic experimentation and becomes genetically altered with super-human strengths senses and dexterity. These skills and more will be needed if anyone is to remain alive... Resident Evil: Apocalypse: The sequel to the 0 million hit Resident Evil: Apocalypse is again based on the wildly popular video game series and picks up where the first film ended. The zombies are back and so is Alice (Jovovich). Since being captured by the notorious Umbrella Corporation she has been subjected to biogenetic experimentation and has become genetically altered with super-human strengths senses and dexterity. Now she has teamed with other survivors of Earth ready to destroy any zombie in their path. After escaping from the Racoon City Medical Facility Alice searches for answers to the T-Virus and how to contain it. On the other side of town a woman named Jill Valentine plots her own escape while battling the undead and Matt Adison now transformed into a monster called The Nemesis who is bent on destroying all who live. Doom: A frantic call for help from a remote research station on Mars sends a team of mercenary Marines into action. Led by The Rock and Karl Urban they descend into the Olduvai Research Station where they find a legion of nightmarish creatures lurking in the darkness killing at will. Once there the Marines must use an arsenal of firepower to carry out their mission: nothing gets out alive.

• Ultraviolet/Serenity/Resident Evil 2 - Apocalypse | DVD | (01/10/2007) from £3.30   |  Saving you £17.95 (879.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ultraviolet: Milla Jovovich (Resident Evil The Fifth Element) Cameron Bright (X-Men 3) Nick Chinlund (The Legend of Zorro) and William Fichtner (The Longest Yard) star in this story of a woman caught in a futuristic civil war between the government and a subculture of disease modified humans in whom speed strength and intelligence are magnified. In the film she must fend off the human government to protect a young boy who has been marked for death. Serenity: Can't stop the signal... Beloved television cult director Joss Whedon (Buffy The Vampire Slayer Angel) makes a spectacular first foray onto the big screen with Serenity the cinematic adaptation of his wildly popular but short-lived sci-fi series Firefly. A mix of space western comedy and drama Serenity follows captain Malcolm ""Mal"" Reynolds (Nathan Fillion) and his ragtag crew as they trade their way around the edges of civilized society. Of particular interest are two passengers they take on Simon and River Tam (Sean Maher and Summer Glau) a brother and his telepathic sister on the run from the corrupt governing Alliance. As notorious former members of the anti-Alliance opposition Mal and his crew make it difficult for Simon and River to stay hidden. Everything goes completely awry when a government assassin is sent to retrieve River. As Mal is forced to choose between his close-knit crew and the brother and sister newcomers it becomes apparent that River harbors both a dangerous secret and astounding fighting powers and Mal decides that discovering the truth about what she knows might just be worth his time. Many of the film's action sequences revolve around Summer Glau's martial arts skills in her portrayal of River. Glau prepared for her role with Hong Kong stuntwoman Ming Lu as well as stunt coordinators Chad Stahelski and Hiro Koda and as a result performed nearly all the stuntwork herself. In addition to the stellar stunts realistic graphics and an often haunting score the film's actors display a rare chemistry that brings viewers both into their lives and into a possible version of humanity's future. Resident Evil 2: Milla Jovovich returns as Alice one of only two survivors of the contained biochemical disaster in the first Resident Evil. This film begins where the first film left off with Alice in the heart of the ravaged and deadly Raccoon City. She has been subjected to biogenetic experimentation by the vast Umbrella Corporation and become genetically altered with super-human strengths senses and dexterity. These skills and more will be needed if anyone is to remain alive.

• Resident Evil / Resident Evil 2 | DVD | (07/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Resident Evil: Something rotten is brewing beneath the industrial mecca known as Raccoon City. Unknown to its millions of residents a huge underground bioengineering facility known as The Hive has accidentally unleashed the deadly and mutating T-virus killing all of its employees. To contain the leak the governing supercomputer Red Queen has sealed all entrances and exits. Now a team of highly-trained super commandos including Rain Alice and Matt must race to penetrate The Hive in order to isolate the T-virus before it overwhelms humanity. To do so they must get past the Red Queen's deadly defenses face the flesh-eating undead employees fight killer mutant dogs and battle The Licker a genetically mutated savage beast whose strength increases with each of its slain victims. Resident Evil: Apocalypse: After the outbreak in the top-secret facility the sinister Umbrella organisation instigates a coverup by releasing the deadly Nemesis toxin to eliminate the surviving members of STARS in Raccoon City...

• Resident Evil: Apocalypse | Blu Ray | (21/03/2016) from £21.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  2002's popular video-game-derived hit Resident Evil didn't inspire confidence in a sequel, but Resident Evil: Apocalypse defies odds and surpasses expectations. It's a bigger, better, action-packed zombie thriller, and this time Milla Jovovich (as the first film's no-nonsense heroine) is joined by more characters from the popular Capcom video games, including Jill Valentine (played by British hottie Sienna Guillory) and Carlos Olivera (Oded Fehr, from 1999's The Mummy). They're armed and ready for a high-caliber encounter with devil dogs, mutant "Lickers," lurching zombies, and the leather-clad monster known only as Nemesis, unleashed by the nefarious Umbrella Corporation responsible for creating the cannibalistic undead horde. Having gained valuable experience as a respected second-unit director on high-profile films like Gladiator and The Bourne Identity, director Alexander Witt elevates this junky material to the level of slick, schlocky entertainment. --Jeff Shannon