Standing in their way is another nod to the videogame, the gigantic secret weapon, Nemesis, who looks exactly like a reject from the Toxic Avenger movies. He offers the group a way out of the city if they can find his daughter.

Charles Ashford (Jared Harris), has lost his daughter in the chaos. Alice soon teams with the group to kill zombies and attempt to escape Raccoon City before the town is wiped out by Umbrella Corp.

And let's not forget the painfully unfunny Mike Epps, who plays L.J. Carlos (Oded Fehr) is a bad-assed square-faced hunk to replace that bad-assed square-faced hunk that teamed up with Alice in the first film. Meanwhile, we meet up with a second group of surviving zombie hunters, members of the evil Umbrella Corp.'s elite Special tactics and rescue, or S.T.A.R.S., led by one of the actual characters from the videogame, good ol' Jill Valentine (Sienna Guillory) who sports a leftover wardrobe from the Tomb Raider films. She doesn't know this at first, but she's been further altered and is apparently now just a few steps below indestructible. She heads out into a nearly abandoned city. Alice (Milla Jovovich) wakes up wearing those two pieces of paper she wore at the end of the first film. RE:A picks up directly after the first film, with the 'virus' now leaking into Raccoon City and threatening a quarantine on the entire city. Maybe they were just finishing effects, I tell myself. Nevertheless, I tried to go into yesterday's Resident Evil: Apocalypse screening on the Sony lot with an open mind. Chances are, they are trying to hide something, such as a crappy film. It's never a good sign when a studio pushes the press day and screening until two days before release.

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