I could never respect a project that so cowardly kneels to dorky fan criticisms of the first movie, but this exceeded my already low expectations.
None of the formal pleasures of the original are here. Don't expect to find any expansive and varied sets, nor any tongue-and-cheek stereotypes that are endearing. Instead, Resident Evil Apocalypse fills its runtime with references and callbacks to the third game in the franchise, as well as bland early-2000s action scenes that are hideous to…