Mr. Anderson's screenplay provides a steady series of inventive action situations, and the director, Alexander Witt, makes the most of them. His work is fast, funny, smart and highly satisfying in terms of visceral impact.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kevin Crust
Witt injects the film with plenty of razzle-dazzle on the visual side, but the pace deadens whenever the zombies are offscreen or the characters open their mouths long enough to do anything more than grunt.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Ben Kenigsberg
Not without its moments of elemental dread, Apocalypse is also obviously padded, too long on action, and painfully short on irony. The satirical element still packs a minor jolt.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Richard Harrington
Plot and narrative? Minimal. Confrontations? Endless. Surprises? None.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
Should the desire to see a clever zombie movie strike, try the recent remake of "Dawn of the Dead" or last year's "28 Days."Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Carrie Rickey
Those who want something more substantial from a movie than a vid-game script with centerfold appeal will not find it in this noisy, bone-crushing survivalist flick inspired by the Game Cube diversion.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Gregory Kirschling
In Resident Evil: Apocalypse, the undead are back to stumbling in the dark, sometimes even in blurry slo-mo, making the many packs of them about as terrifying as the mobs waiting for Matt and Katie outside the "Today" studio.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Wesley Morris
Like so many movies with a keypad for a brain, Resident Evil: Apocalypse is another exercise in making us feel the irritation associated with having to stand behind some game hack for our turn to play.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
An utterly meaningless waste of time...It is a dead zone, a film without interest, wit, imagination or even entertaining violence and special effects.Read Full Review »