Resident Evil: Apocalypse

The New York Times Dave Kehr

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.

New York Daily News Robert Dominguez

Witt, who cut his teeth as a second unit director on action thrillers "Speed," "XXX" and "The Bourne Identity," instead pours all his energy into stylized, blood-spattered fight scenes that come at a breakneck pace and should please the target audience, who grew up blasting the walking undead on Nintendos.

Film Threat Pete Vonder Haar

Dumb, loud, and ludicrous in the extreme, and I actually enjoyed it.

Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell

The bad news? The movie is monumentally stupid. The good news? It's a fun kind of stupid.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker

Best enjoyed by keeping in mind the latest cinematic proposition that apocalyptic disaster doesn't bring out the worst in people, only the stupidest.

New York Post Lou Lumenick

There is nothing startlingly new in Resident Evil: Apocalpyse, but it is delivered with some panache and humor.

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.

The Hollywood Reporter Richard James Havis

It's a frantic piece of filmmaking that invests nothing in the characters and moves much too fast for its own good. But things do pick up a bit for the final third, when a story line finally arrives.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Stephen Cole

A superior entertainment to both "RE 1" and "Alien vs. Predator."

The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin

Takes too long to get going to qualify unequivocally as a good movie, but when Jovovich finally starts kicking zombified ass, it becomes good enough.

Empire Chris Hewitt

The chief horror here is the cliffhanger promising a third instalment.

Dallas Observer Luke Y. Thompson

Several visual nods to the game are amusing, but it's tough to recommend the movie to anyone who doesn't already own a PlayStation.

LA Weekly Chuck Wilson

This is efficient, soul-numbing moviemaking, diverting enough for blistering September afternoons when what's onscreen is secondary to how high they've cranked the air conditioning.

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.

TV Guide Angel Cohn

Offers up more of everything: more bloody zombie dogs, more crazy corporate evildoers, more Milla Jovovich unclothed and more over-the-top action scenes.

Chicago Tribune Robert K. Elder

Might be justified as "mindless fun" if it weren't for the acute lack of fun in its 93 minutes.

Variety Scott Foundas

Calamitously uninspired and borderline incoherent, new pic lacks even those fleeting pleasures (namely, a sense of humor) that made the first film a passable popcorn attraction.

Washington Post Richard Harrington

Plot and narrative? Minimal. Confrontations? Endless. Surprises? None.

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

Fans of the video game will doubtless love it all but for true fans of the gnashing dead – and we count ourselves among them – this is strictly second-tier terror.

Chicago Reader Cliff Doerksen

Not a fraction as scary as George Romero's low-budget "Night of the Living Dead." Fans of the first installment will probably like this too--it's essentially the same movie, plus helicopters and lots of flying glass.

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."

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.

San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub

It's just too bad that almost nothing in the movie seems original. The "Thriller" video may have featured hokey dancing zombies, but at least someone was making an effort.

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.

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.

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.