She's literally a Mary Sue. She changes the rules of the universe to keep being badass with zero faults. And making other character look like random Skyrim bandits against Dragonborn fully decked in daedric armor and with the best possible gear in game along with mods that make said Dragonborn even more OP than when he was before.
Supposedly from what I heard. Alice allegedly is suppose to be a clone of Alexia Ashford from resident evil: code Veronica. Which is the Supposed explanation for her being so overpowered.
Sienna Gilfoy Jill Valentine had the BEST line in ALL THE FRANCHISE because it perfectly asks what we ALL were thinking from the beginning....in the church after Alice kills everything..."WHO, THE FUCK, ARE YOU?..."
One of those moments where the movie almost becomes self aware enough to realise we don't give a shit about their self insert Mary Sue, but them fumvles the ball at the last moment.
For the most part, he looked great. In some scenes, though, Nemesis looked pretty stiff and rubbery, and I can see what Decker means in that the moisture really added a lot of realism to the suit, when it was used.
@@Laneous14: And they would probably ignore the classic design in favor of the remake one because of Hollywood's current mindset of "Who cares about old things? Modern remakes are always better!" As you can tell, i hate the elongated head and that dislocated nose he was given.
Literally the only time in the entire movie that Alice dosen't absolutly own everyone and thing in the movie without any effort is the one time the director gave Carlos a chance to flirt with her when he throws a knife at a guard she "missed"
@@213chewythe sad thing though is they'd gave us a fantastic Jill, just to have Alice upstage her at every turn. Then in the 2nd to last movie, they killed off Jill, Leon, and Ada, off-screen, and didn't even have the respect to mention it. (and not even in a shitty book like they did between this movie and the next) It was just like Retribution ends: "Alice has her powers back, Jill is back, Leon is here, Ada is here, Wesker is on their side, and shit's about to go down!" The Final chapter starts: "Actually ignore that pov shot we got showing Alice get her powers back, that was just a prank by Albert. Shit went down, and you missed it.....Leon, Jill, Ada? Never heard of them, they important? Naw I don't even respect them enough to confirm or deny their death, Alice isn't even gonna call their names or look for them, she already forgot they existed"
@@Trojianmaru Honestly after the first two I forget which ones are which because I've only watched them when they came on tv and most of the time found something else. I tried watching the Final Chapter and it was nauseating that there were like 800 cuts in 2 minutes.
This is where they started the trend of “none of the actual game characters can accomplish anything of note because Goddess Alice has to do it all herself.” And it just kept getting worse from here.
Ive always thought it was funny how they made Nicholai a good guy who dies a matyr death to save the little girl when in the video games hes likely to shoot you and probably the little girl in the leg to buy more time to get the hell out
Yeah in the games he's a greedy Umbrella supervisor who kills the other supervisors in Raccoon City so he can get all the combat data money for himself.
I loved the Nemesis suit they used. He looked awesome. The makeup and effects team did an amazing job. They missed a massive bag not naming it Resident Evil Nemesis.
Are you sure you really loved it, and you're not just subconsciously comparing it to whys we got years later with the game? Don't get me wrong, I like his look too, but they swap his rocket launcher for a mini gun, he never runs, he never mutates, he never punches, he never even uses a god damn single tentacle, and he's not a Tyrant, just a modified human-zombie-thing. Like when we only had the original video game to compare him to, he's a great cosplayer and nothing more, but when we compare him to what we got in the remake, he's amazing. (though even that guy used tentacles and mutated, even if he did it poorly)
@@venomrulesallright? He looks amazing, but Nemisis was a sprinter who used a rocket launcher, tentacles, and mutated. This Nemi would absolutely take the gold at comic con, but in terms of comparing him to what he's supposed to be, looks are the only thing they got right, even if they did get the looks REALLY right.
@@Trojianmaru Yup. The messed up everything else. At first it did look like he would be the neigh unstoppable force of terror he was in the game, by having him shrug of gunfire and mow down his enemies... only to have him get his ass kicked in one of the worst edited fight scenes in movie history, all to make the movie maker's wife look cool. People can bash the RE3 Remake all they want. But at least it was much better than this.
I just got inspired, Decker. I've watched your life story video and now just seen your physique and noticed how you have survived and disciplined yourself. Proof of concept for me, sir. I know I can do what I need to do with myself. Keep at it, sir. Never stop never stopping.
Just watched it as well, and I sm amazed. It's truly inspiring. Which I need more of, in my situation. Double amputee. Below ankle, 16 years, above knee in 21. Jit the point where progress slows down, and it affects you mentally. Not, opt out bad, but you just don't feel like you anymore, and that progress has a goal, getting as much of your old life back, as you can. I rode motorcycles for 42 years. Have the leg, adapted the foot brake, and did a quick lap of the neighbor's pasture last month. Found, and corrected issues, need to test ride it again. But I hurt my knee, and it's just now gotten back to normal. Think I'll take a ride tomorrow afternoon, when the kids drop in. Get them out az well, as they live in Cleveland. They don't get to do the country thing that often now.
This movie is a guilty pleasure for me and yeah I'm fully aware of the movie's flaws and no I can't defend it other than this movie introducing me to one of my all time favorite metal bands. Killswitch Engaged with one of their best songs End of A Heartache that played on the credits of the movie! Yeah I wished Spotify and TH-cam were a thing back then because...I hated majority of everything on the damn radio as a kid. But even Nemesis having a human side wasn't the first time. Fun fact: the Manuaha (China's comic) version of re3 gave Nemesis a human past and fought G-Virus William Birkin.
I never noticed it but that line at 16:55 where L.J. chastises Carlos for hiding his bite from him is especially hilarious since in the next movie L.J. does the exact same thing leading to Carlos dying.
@@EternalStorm796 Well if it makes you feel any better Carlos was orginally gonna be "that guy" and bite Jill and she woulda sacrificed herself, but the actress decided to do a different movie instead so they changed the order abit. Not sure if LJ woulda even been in the movie otherwise.
The thing with these films that I find most bizarre is that they were all done by one guy...and have recaps that start almost every one...yet they are insanely contradictory, inconsistent and utterly disconnected.
My favorite examples being the ends and beginnings. Most of the movies just throw out the ending of the last film. Three ends with an Alice clone army..... Only for them to all be killed in the opening of the next film. Four ends with Alice traveling with chris and Claire..... Only for Alice to be kidnapped in the opening of the next film and leaving the Redfields behind. Five ends with setting up Alice teaming up with wesker to fight an army..... Only for the next movie start after the war is over without us knowing what happened. The last one is extra funny to me because Alice's clone daughter (don't ask) was there. But she's never seen again. So I guess Alice's daughter is dead and she doesn't care at all.
@@somethingclever4297 I'm convinced Paul Anderson changed his mind about the endings right after they were filmed so rendered them pointless in the next one.
@@Trojianmaruthere's currently a video free to see for all of a detailed tutorial for using nair on your ass. TH-cam only cares if it interferes with profit.
@@mjparks4889 oh believe me I know the kinds of dodgy things TH-cam turns a blind eye to. I can't remember what video it was attached to, but I remember seeing a Honkai ad that was doing the whole "choose your waifu" thing, like "sporty or Nerdy? Tall or short" but then when I can only assume it meant to say "teen or milf" it just straight up said "underage or married?" I reported it to TH-cam, and they didn't give a single solitary shit.
I concur. Right person, doing the review justice. Only wish there were a couple more films, as this, and his review of the first film have been a fun ride. And the perfect distraction for my 2nd night of some pretty bad phantom limb.
The first two resident evil movies are a great summary of entertainment in the early 2000s; nostalgic to everyone growing up in that time but completely flawed, and now that we're older we KNOW it was bad but we still kinda love it lol
It's not even like she deserved it either. It was just a grim reminder that there had been children in this zombie Outbreak, and they probably died terrified and in agony, but then back to the fun as if that fact doesn't loom over us.
That's a performance into itself that you made the movie much more appealing that I ever remembered it to be. You almost made me want to watch it again. I also didn't remember how dirty the journalist was done in the school, they really never were her friends. Anyway that was a wonderfully entertaining review, thank you so much !
And this starts the trend of the resident evil movies either making the villains the worst type of heroes they can possibly be or the dumbest villains that you ever known. Like the thing that always hurt my soul was the fact that they made the Ashford founder a sympathetic dad. Hell even making Jill's hair black so she won't take the focus off of Mila 😫
I think this was my favourite between the first two movies. Zombie action fun and a direct continuation from the previous film. Way more consistent than the following sequels. Nothing felt planned out about them, especially in regards to the cliffhanger endings which didn't have much bearing on the next installments. And I do wish that they didn't make Alice so super-perfect. The first film had her be a competent survivor, which worked, and here is kind of the start of "Alice is the ultimate badass". It takes away from the other characters and I feel does Mila Jovavich a disservice too - she is cool and can be badass, but it means nothing because she's the only one allowed to be badass.
Honestly these two movie are the only ones I can stand, for very different reasons. The first was great as a stand-alone zombie movie, and this one is great for how much it got right (though that because at the time, every other video game movie sucked. Now we've seen the animated movies and the sonic and mario movies, so we know it could of been better) Plus I think most Resi fans agree that the heart of Resident Evil is Racoon City. It's where most of the spinoffs are set, and where my favourite games are set (Resident Evil 2, 3, 2 remake, and Outbreak) so it was nice to see the city in a movie, even if it was kind of a shitty copy of the city.
This was the franchise that taught me about “cherry picking” and deciding to deal with what I thought was feasible for my interests. Because the first two were always my favorite growing up as a kid, now seeing them as lesser character adaptations but solid game to film productions. Understanding the atmosphere of Resident Evil but losing character adaptation in the casting with Milla. Extinction was where I started to draw the line, even back then. Because it started to really lose adaptability with the Earth drying up (???), as the wasteland was never apart of RE’s aesthetic. While Afterlife was where the atmosphere and ambience was completely abandoned to cater to action. The first two films had brilliantly used the settings to ground the characters in the story, while the later just seemed to become literal backdrops. Retribution became unbearable overtime, even though it tried to recapture the old aesthetic and invent newer scenarios with the testing facility. The characters like Ada, Leon, Wesker, and Barry just felt like caricatures of themselves compared to Alice carrying them all along. And Last Chapter? Even with the return to Raccoon City and Umbrella’s juicy presence. The world was so bogged down with nonsense, and awful editing. It’s actually unwatchable beyond TH-cam.
Fun fact: you CAN get a full auto sub machine gun from a gun shop as they are not illegal in this country and never have been. You just need to pay a 200 dollar tax stamp and pass an even more stringent background check
Always a guilty pleasure of mine. I just wish we got a longer sequence of the police and swat teams holding the center of town before they got overrun.
More accurate to the game seeing the police, Swat, and UBCS battling the zombie hordes only to get overrun. Completely cut from the awful 2020 game remake. Lame...
This movie was ok, like the first it was passable, though by bringing in characters and making them in name only characters and having them take s backseat to Andersons OC self insert wife was a tough pill to swallow. But this movie is also the last one to have any kind of subtly or be grounded in reality in anyway. From this point going further Alice is essentially that kid on the playground who gives themselves every power you can think of and says “nu uh that didn’t work” when they got hit by something.
Yup, after this Alice ruins the franchise, I mean I like the homage they pay to certain points but it's all done so bad, except for 3 when Alice does claires drop shot, you see why Alice ruins this franchise even without the bs powers she gets lol
6:47 Which as reviewer Deusdeacon in his review pointed out makes zero sense. Umbrella has all the soldiers, all the resources and the Anti-Virus yet one single bite is all it takes for them to turn tail and run. Pretty pathetic.
11:02 my thought on the zombies coming up from the ground of the graveyard, is that the ACTUAL zombie apocalypse was really happening at the exact same time as the T-virus outbreak perhaps? how else could these corpses who have been dead for years if not centuries break out of the airtight covens, 6 feet under ground to attack? also in these movies- umbrella doesnt follow their own continuity from film to film and doing things that either contradicts OR changes what they WERE tryin to do from the last movie. in the end, Umbrella's own enemy in these films is Umbrella themselves- watched Porteous' review of these, now cant wait for Decker's take! keep up awesome job
man this has been one crazy day. I see comedian Lewis Black reading another one of my rants a day after posting 3 themes of a character from the video game Bio Freaks (a year later after a he read one of my rants shortly after posting 3 other character themes from the same exact game), which was a rant about chicken tenders not being sold by certain fast food chains, to ordering chicken strips from Popeyes via DoorDash, and while wearing my Dr Pepper t-shirt with a long red sleeve shirt underneath due to being inside since it's too hot out, I see Decker Shado also wearing a Dr Pepper t-shirt. talk about coincidenception!
@@wednesdaygeckok.7899 still I remember Phelan porteous spending almost a decade reviewing these and outright hating them elvis the alien at least acknowledged the first 3 as decent films of varying genres. And the rest as off the walls so bad they're good especially since 3 really screwed the continuity and setting up big time
@@wednesdaygeckok.7899 Honestly I get enjoying these two alone. Every movie after this one, retcons the ending of the previous movie to such a point that it becomes infuriating. Like this one kind of excuses it with the book (that nobody has read or heard of) explaining that the lil girl was killed and Alice escaped control, (though that's important shit they shouldn't of skipped in the movie) but it gets ridiculous after this movie. [RE: Extinction Ending] Alice gets a shit ton of clones, and her psychic powers are OP [RE: Afterlife Intro] All Alice's clones are dead, and she lost all her psychic powers within the first 5 minutes. RE: Afterlife Ending] Alice, Chris, Claire, and K-mart have a safe zone, and plan to bring survivors to Arcadia to survive [RE: Retribution Intro] Chris, and K-mart are never seen again, Claire disappears till the end of the next movie. Alice is captured and made to star in the Dawn of the Dead remake. [RE: Retribution Ending] Alice gets her psychic powers back, and teams up with Re5 Jill Valentine, Ada Wong, Albert Wesker, and Leon S. motherfucking Kennedy, to save the world. It's gonna be epic. [RE: The Last Chapter starts] Alice doesn't have her powers now, Leon, Jill and Ada are never mentioned again, (the movie doesn't even care enough to say if they died or not, Alice just forgets they ever existed) the epic fight is over, and the mother of all retcons trigger happy movies is about to begin.
@@EternalStorm796 😅 thanks for pointing that out, clearly I was thinking of the movie I would much rather of seen. Though she did get T-virus powers that made her super strong, super agile, and super blonde.
Yeah, like it was supposed to happen in a few years, but then this outbreak happened first, and the necromancer was like, "Shit, go! Go! Go! They are stealing our thunder!"
This movie solidified that I would not enjoy this franchise The first movie was disappointing to me because it had very little to do with the game, at the time it was my favorite franchise and the remake of the original was my favorite game of all time This one I thought could steer it in the right direction since it was going to start taking elements from the games, but instead of doing them justice I thought it did them a great disservice The actress who plays Jill Valentine was good and that's about the only thing I like about this film, otherwise it's just even more ridiculous over the top action centered around Alice. Nemesis being some kind of Terminator who ends up having a heart and a conscious at the end just made me leave the movie theater mad as hell, I've never seen any of the others past this one
@@Chelaxim Yeah I didn't specify either that I didn't dislike the first film, I just found it disappointing and kind of bizarre. It's actually this video series where I first learned that it's just because the film was not written as a Resident Evil film to begin with lol It's okay for what it is, it just makes sense that the Resident Evil title was tacked onto it I owned it and I watched it a fair few times because I was hungry for anything Resident Evil, but that's why this film really let me down
He decided to feed the dogs... You got me Decker. Had me laughing hard enough that my service dog woke up, and walked over the check on me. Thank you for making a bad night better. Bad phantom limb, pain and itch all day.
Jill's actress doing everything in her power to mimic the animations and tone from the game down to actually playing it and studying it for this Raccoon City fire of a movie is something of a travesty. Always felt bad for her putting that much effort while almost everything else felt phoned in.
Your videos don't come out fast enough Q.Q. Love you always excited to watch one of your videos. The reason Cain could have given to Dr. Ashford was that "I needed to test The Nemesis program and saw that you were leading Alice to a location so they can also send Nemsis there too" it's not much and it would have explaind why he would have let him keep telling alice and the gang where to go. Plot holes man :/
I heard The Meg 2 is coming out soon, Decker and his explanations of sharksploitation movies has me giddy, hopefully he’ll tackle that when it’s out- I mean he was standing on a beach 😂
I still can't figure out how you are below 200k subscribers. Easily one of the top ten reviewers in TH-cam history. Always a pleasure to see an upload from Decker Shado. I can't wait until it's just the norm for movie reviews on TH-cam.
Woooo RE Apocalypse: This was my fav version of Resident Evil film adaptation as it was an interesting interpretation of RE 3 as it was pretty cool how Nemsis was created and portrayed till RE3 remake explained his true creation process. Thanks again Shado Decker for going over my fav film series 😁
this is the last time that these films were even remotely tolerable since it's all downhill from Extinction onwards. plus, Nemesis was actually pretty cool in this film.
19:05 she is Mila Jovovich/Alice. You could bisect her. Drop one half into a volcano. Punt the other half into a black hole. And she would still be able to regrow her body and kill you before you have a chance to turn around
Your videos get better and better, Decker! Your reviews are always spot on, but you know exactly where to put in the "Like & Subscribe" appeal and how to make it seamless. Nice work!
Although this was written as a specific Resident Evil movie CAPCOM wouldn't allow WS Anderson to follow any plot from the games on this or any of his Resident Evil films. They allowed him to use some characters, names, places etc. but anything story wise had to be different from the games. As they wanted nothing to interfere with their sales. CAPCOM have done this twice more with Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021), which made $42m on a $25m budget and needed at least $84/85m to break even and the Netflix Resident Evil series which was cancelled after just a few episodes due to how poorly it was received. Each time CAPCOM put story restrictions on the projects (to varying degrees).
i for one hate that they bothered to insert character from the games just for name recognition while changing the overal game story so much Jill wasn't Jill anymore, just a hardboiled cop fleeing to the city limits, i mean you easily replace the names of Jill, Carlos and the rest of the game character and nothing changes in the overall story if you wanna go your own way with an established franchise you can work in some nods to the games like some shots were literally shot for shot remakes of ingame cgi sequences but dragging in randomly some game characters just for brand recognition while completely retcon their ingame history is imo the wrong way to speak to the fans (not to mention even though i liked that shots recreating the RE code veronica sequence regarding the hellicopter and stuff but replacing Claire in there for Alice still is wrong) also knowing that ingame wesker had superhuman capabilities due to his own injection with the t-stuff it makes some sense in universe that alice gained some powers but as the movie series goes on the overall story of the movies makes less and less sense since the movies rely heavily on some events have to have taken place while others are simply reconned because alice had to be the star int he story ... so yeah i am still pissed of the RE movie franchise and the decision the makers did, cool visuals aside thewhole stuff feels like a bad fever dream fanfic scenario minus the fan, its more a cashgrab off of a game series
And last time Alice's recap will make sense or match up with the movie(s) it is recapping. Unironically it is also the first recap in the series. Things get messy real quick after that.
Not just good hair, but that is a beach body many would envy. Concerning the movie, this was one with at least a string of memorable scenes and effects.
I "love" how Alice is written excaltly like an OP self insert fan fiction protaginist from quizilla.
Yup, she's got the power of Nepotism. It's stronger than any Umbrella made affliction.
It's fun and goofy which is why anyone sat in seats for the sequels lol
Dude literally married his OC
She's literally a Mary Sue. She changes the rules of the universe to keep being badass with zero faults. And making other character look like random Skyrim bandits against Dragonborn fully decked in daedric armor and with the best possible gear in game along with mods that make said Dragonborn even more OP than when he was before.
Supposedly from what I heard. Alice allegedly is suppose to be a clone of Alexia Ashford from resident evil: code Veronica. Which is the Supposed explanation for her being so overpowered.
Sienna Gilfoy Jill Valentine had the BEST line in ALL THE FRANCHISE because it perfectly asks what we ALL were thinking from the beginning....in the church after Alice kills everything..."WHO, THE FUCK, ARE YOU?..."
One of those moments where the movie almost becomes self aware enough to realise we don't give a shit about their self insert Mary Sue, but them fumvles the ball at the last moment.
It's Biohazard/Resident Evil, not the-chronicles-of-how-awesome-Alice-is-so-stay-out-of-her-way.
One thing i will always praise about this movie is the practical makeup used for Nemesis. They made him look so good!
Agree
Agreed
These days it would be a crappy CGI puppet that moves jerkily and isn't matted into the background.
For the most part, he looked great. In some scenes, though, Nemesis looked pretty stiff and rubbery, and I can see what Decker means in that the moisture really added a lot of realism to the suit, when it was used.
@@Laneous14: And they would probably ignore the classic design in favor of the remake one because of Hollywood's current mindset of "Who cares about old things? Modern remakes are always better!"
As you can tell, i hate the elongated head and that dislocated nose he was given.
Jill Valentine was perfectly cast in this film. Its too bad they never let her do much and gave Alice all the big action scenes.
Well duhh.. Havent you realize that theese movies are Andersons look at my hot wife movies..
Literally the only time in the entire movie that Alice dosen't absolutly own everyone and thing in the movie without any effort is the one time the director gave Carlos a chance to flirt with her when he throws a knife at a guard she "missed"
That was something I disliked but I'm glad they didn't give us an opportunity to HATE the Redfields.
@@toidIllorTAmI Well the Redfield's are in 3 of the next 4 movies so don't worry you'll get your chance
@@RogueDragon05 better than boulder punching Chris 🤣
The casting for Jill Valentine was one thing this series got right. She's great.
The thing about the casting is when they got it right they GOT IT RIGHT! And when they got it wrong they got it horribly wrong
@@213chewy yep and the worst casting was behind the camera.
@@213chewythe sad thing though is they'd gave us a fantastic Jill, just to have Alice upstage her at every turn. Then in the 2nd to last movie, they killed off Jill, Leon, and Ada, off-screen, and didn't even have the respect to mention it. (and not even in a shitty book like they did between this movie and the next)
It was just like
Retribution ends: "Alice has her powers back, Jill is back, Leon is here, Ada is here, Wesker is on their side, and shit's about to go down!"
The Final chapter starts: "Actually ignore that pov shot we got showing Alice get her powers back, that was just a prank by Albert. Shit went down, and you missed it.....Leon, Jill, Ada? Never heard of them, they important? Naw I don't even respect them enough to confirm or deny their death, Alice isn't even gonna call their names or look for them, she already forgot they existed"
@@Trojianmaru don't forget about Alice's clone daughter. Who was also their yet disappeared in the next film.
@@Trojianmaru Honestly after the first two I forget which ones are which because I've only watched them when they came on tv and most of the time found something else. I tried watching the Final Chapter and it was nauseating that there were like 800 cuts in 2 minutes.
This is where they started the trend of “none of the actual game characters can accomplish anything of note because Goddess Alice has to do it all herself.” And it just kept getting worse from here.
Ive always thought it was funny how they made Nicholai a good guy who dies a matyr death to save the little girl when in the video games hes likely to shoot you and probably the little girl in the leg to buy more time to get the hell out
Yeah in the games he's a greedy Umbrella supervisor who kills the other supervisors in Raccoon City so he can get all the combat data money for himself.
LJ, "You should told me you were bit..."
Funny considering the next movie's events.
I loved the Nemesis suit they used. He looked awesome. The makeup and effects team did an amazing job. They missed a massive bag not naming it Resident Evil Nemesis.
To bad Nemesis' look is the only thing they got right.
Are you sure you really loved it, and you're not just subconsciously comparing it to whys we got years later with the game?
Don't get me wrong, I like his look too, but they swap his rocket launcher for a mini gun, he never runs, he never mutates, he never punches, he never even uses a god damn single tentacle, and he's not a Tyrant, just a modified human-zombie-thing.
Like when we only had the original video game to compare him to, he's a great cosplayer and nothing more, but when we compare him to what we got in the remake, he's amazing. (though even that guy used tentacles and mutated, even if he did it poorly)
@@venomrulesallright? He looks amazing, but Nemisis was a sprinter who used a rocket launcher, tentacles, and mutated.
This Nemi would absolutely take the gold at comic con, but in terms of comparing him to what he's supposed to be, looks are the only thing they got right, even if they did get the looks REALLY right.
@@Trojianmaru Yup. The messed up everything else. At first it did look like he would be the neigh unstoppable force of terror he was in the game, by having him shrug of gunfire and mow down his enemies... only to have him get his ass kicked in one of the worst edited fight scenes in movie history, all to make the movie maker's wife look cool.
People can bash the RE3 Remake all they want. But at least it was much better than this.
Well here we go again
I just got inspired, Decker. I've watched your life story video and now just seen your physique and noticed how you have survived and disciplined yourself. Proof of concept for me, sir. I know I can do what I need to do with myself. Keep at it, sir. Never stop never stopping.
Just watched it as well, and I sm amazed. It's truly inspiring. Which I need more of, in my situation.
Double amputee. Below ankle, 16 years, above knee in 21. Jit the point where progress slows down, and it affects you mentally. Not, opt out bad, but you just don't feel like you anymore, and that progress has a goal, getting as much of your old life back, as you can.
I rode motorcycles for 42 years. Have the leg, adapted the foot brake, and did a quick lap of the neighbor's pasture last month. Found, and corrected issues, need to test ride it again. But I hurt my knee, and it's just now gotten back to normal.
Think I'll take a ride tomorrow afternoon, when the kids drop in. Get them out az well, as they live in Cleveland. They don't get to do the country thing that often now.
16:55 is so much funnier after watching the 3rd movie and LJ literally keeps a bite concealed while with a group 😂😂
Which gets Carlos killed after LJ turns.
This movie is a guilty pleasure for me and yeah I'm fully aware of the movie's flaws and no I can't defend it other than this movie introducing me to one of my all time favorite metal bands. Killswitch Engaged with one of their best songs End of A Heartache that played on the credits of the movie! Yeah I wished Spotify and TH-cam were a thing back then because...I hated majority of everything on the damn radio as a kid. But even Nemesis having a human side wasn't the first time. Fun fact: the Manuaha (China's comic) version of re3 gave Nemesis a human past and fought G-Virus William Birkin.
I never noticed it but that line at 16:55 where L.J. chastises Carlos for hiding his bite from him is especially hilarious since in the next movie L.J. does the exact same thing leading to Carlos dying.
L.J doing that next movie is revenge for what Carlos did to him this movie
Yeah makes him look like a massive douche bag in retrospect huh lol
I thought the same thing watching this lol
Bit annoying, LJ is the character I liked in these movies.
@@EternalStorm796 Well if it makes you feel any better Carlos was orginally gonna be "that guy" and bite Jill and she woulda sacrificed herself, but the actress decided to do a different movie instead so they changed the order abit. Not sure if LJ woulda even been in the movie otherwise.
The thing with these films that I find most bizarre is that they were all done by one guy...and have recaps that start almost every one...yet they are insanely contradictory, inconsistent and utterly disconnected.
My favorite examples being the ends and beginnings. Most of the movies just throw out the ending of the last film.
Three ends with an Alice clone army..... Only for them to all be killed in the opening of the next film.
Four ends with Alice traveling with chris and Claire..... Only for Alice to be kidnapped in the opening of the next film and leaving the Redfields behind.
Five ends with setting up Alice teaming up with wesker to fight an army..... Only for the next movie start after the war is over without us knowing what happened.
The last one is extra funny to me because Alice's clone daughter (don't ask) was there. But she's never seen again. So I guess Alice's daughter is dead and she doesn't care at all.
@@somethingclever4297 I'm convinced Paul Anderson changed his mind about the endings right after they were filmed so rendered them pointless in the next one.
wow he is actually able to release these in a timely manner and youtube isn't screwing him over
I feel like that says more for how PG the zombies were more than anything else 😂
TH-cam saw this, and decided it was family friendly
@@Trojianmaruthere's currently a video free to see for all of a detailed tutorial for using nair on your ass. TH-cam only cares if it interferes with profit.
@@mjparks4889 oh believe me I know the kinds of dodgy things TH-cam turns a blind eye to. I can't remember what video it was attached to, but I remember seeing a Honkai ad that was doing the whole "choose your waifu" thing, like "sporty or Nerdy? Tall or short" but then when I can only assume it meant to say "teen or milf" it just straight up said "underage or married?"
I reported it to TH-cam, and they didn't give a single solitary shit.
So stoked to see the Deckman apply his style of reviews to the resident evil series. Recipe for pure gold IMO. Keep up the great work D-Shadz!
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I concur.
Right person, doing the review justice. Only wish there were a couple more films, as this, and his review of the first film have been a fun ride. And the perfect distraction for my 2nd night of some pretty bad phantom limb.
Someone on the beach where Decker is recording.
"I wonder why Werid AL is screaming at his camera"
0:21 Nice to see Decker take his dogo to the beach.
Kinda miss you doing these videos sitting on your couch.
Do you work out Decker? Because you looked more bulky in that beach clip. If so, keep it up, man. You're looking great.
2:01 The funniest thing about all the intros is Alice saying she'll take down Umbrella then they end with her still not having done that.
"... In the sequel."
The first two resident evil movies are a great summary of entertainment in the early 2000s; nostalgic to everyone growing up in that time but completely flawed, and now that we're older we KNOW it was bad but we still kinda love it lol
The reporter being eaten alive by the children was probably the most horrifying part of the movie, to me.
It's not even like she deserved it either. It was just a grim reminder that there had been children in this zombie Outbreak, and they probably died terrified and in agony, but then back to the fun as if that fact doesn't loom over us.
That's a performance into itself that you made the movie much more appealing that I ever remembered it to be. You almost made me want to watch it again. I also didn't remember how dirty the journalist was done in the school, they really never were her friends. Anyway that was a wonderfully entertaining review, thank you so much !
And this starts the trend of the resident evil movies either making the villains the worst type of heroes they can possibly be or the dumbest villains that you ever known. Like the thing that always hurt my soul was the fact that they made the Ashford founder a sympathetic dad. Hell even making Jill's hair black so she won't take the focus off of Mila 😫
I think this was my favourite between the first two movies. Zombie action fun and a direct continuation from the previous film.
Way more consistent than the following sequels. Nothing felt planned out about them, especially in regards to the cliffhanger endings which didn't have much bearing on the next installments.
And I do wish that they didn't make Alice so super-perfect. The first film had her be a competent survivor, which worked, and here is kind of the start of "Alice is the ultimate badass". It takes away from the other characters and I feel does Mila Jovavich a disservice too - she is cool and can be badass, but it means nothing because she's the only one allowed to be badass.
Honestly these two movie are the only ones I can stand, for very different reasons.
The first was great as a stand-alone zombie movie, and this one is great for how much it got right (though that because at the time, every other video game movie sucked. Now we've seen the animated movies and the sonic and mario movies, so we know it could of been better)
Plus I think most Resi fans agree that the heart of Resident Evil is Racoon City. It's where most of the spinoffs are set, and where my favourite games are set (Resident Evil 2, 3, 2 remake, and Outbreak) so it was nice to see the city in a movie, even if it was kind of a shitty copy of the city.
This was the franchise that taught me about “cherry picking” and deciding to deal with what I thought was feasible for my interests.
Because the first two were always my favorite growing up as a kid, now seeing them as lesser character adaptations but solid game to film productions. Understanding the atmosphere of Resident Evil but losing character adaptation in the casting with Milla.
Extinction was where I started to draw the line, even back then. Because it started to really lose adaptability with the Earth drying up (???), as the wasteland was never apart of RE’s aesthetic. While Afterlife was where the atmosphere and ambience was completely abandoned to cater to action.
The first two films had brilliantly used the settings to ground the characters in the story, while the later just seemed to become literal backdrops.
Retribution became unbearable overtime, even though it tried to recapture the old aesthetic and invent newer scenarios with the testing facility. The characters like Ada, Leon, Wesker, and Barry just felt like caricatures of themselves compared to Alice carrying them all along.
And Last Chapter? Even with the return to Raccoon City and Umbrella’s juicy presence. The world was so bogged down with nonsense, and awful editing. It’s actually unwatchable beyond TH-cam.
Fun fact: you CAN get a full auto sub machine gun from a gun shop as they are not illegal in this country and never have been. You just need to pay a 200 dollar tax stamp and pass an even more stringent background check
Mila has never before or since looked this gorgeous.
Always a guilty pleasure of mine. I just wish we got a longer sequence of the police and swat teams holding the center of town before they got overrun.
More accurate to the game seeing the police, Swat, and UBCS battling the zombie hordes only to get overrun. Completely cut from the awful 2020 game remake. Lame...
This movie was ok, like the first it was passable, though by bringing in characters and making them in name only characters and having them take s backseat to Andersons OC self insert wife was a tough pill to swallow. But this movie is also the last one to have any kind of subtly or be grounded in reality in anyway. From this point going further Alice is essentially that kid on the playground who gives themselves every power you can think of and says “nu uh that didn’t work” when they got hit by something.
Yup, after this Alice ruins the franchise, I mean I like the homage they pay to certain points but it's all done so bad, except for 3 when Alice does claires drop shot, you see why Alice ruins this franchise even without the bs powers she gets lol
IM SURE YOU KNOW WE ALL NEEDED SOME SHADO THIS EVE. thanks for all you do sir
Literally the closest film to relate to the games out of the series
I get really nostalgic when I look back at my time being an extra in this flick when they filmed everything in T.O.
awwww good doggy. Glad to see she's out and enjoying the beach
Dear Sir Shadow.
Your Wastelands have a funny acoustic 😄
13:03 wow mila is just free nipping it
6:47 Which as reviewer Deusdeacon in his review pointed out makes zero sense. Umbrella has all the soldiers, all the resources and the Anti-Virus yet one single bite is all it takes for them to turn tail and run. Pretty pathetic.
11:02 my thought on the zombies coming up from the ground of the graveyard, is that the ACTUAL zombie apocalypse was really happening at the exact same time as the T-virus outbreak perhaps? how else could these corpses who have been dead for years if not centuries break out of the airtight covens, 6 feet under ground to attack?
also in these movies- umbrella doesnt follow their own continuity from film to film and doing things that either contradicts OR changes what they WERE tryin to do from the last movie. in the end, Umbrella's own enemy in these films is Umbrella themselves- watched Porteous' review of these, now cant wait for Decker's take! keep up awesome job
Since STARS is cribbed from GI Joe, they can use Nemesis from Transformers. Nobody would have thought Star Trek.
Thank god yt actually notified me this time. Good job Decker!
So awesome really you and boots to reboots need more people to see you
man this has been one crazy day. I see comedian Lewis Black reading another one of my rants a day after posting 3 themes of a character from the video game Bio Freaks (a year later after a he read one of my rants shortly after posting 3 other character themes from the same exact game), which was a rant about chicken tenders not being sold by certain fast food chains, to ordering chicken strips from Popeyes via DoorDash, and while wearing my Dr Pepper t-shirt with a long red sleeve shirt underneath due to being inside since it's too hot out, I see Decker Shado also wearing a Dr Pepper t-shirt. talk about coincidenception!
lol the dog running along with Decker is so cute
frankly im glad you're being more fair to this series of films than most people tend to be
Let's wait until he gets to the next one before we think that lol
People either like the first 2, none of them, or all of them from my experience
@@wednesdaygeckok.7899 still I remember Phelan porteous spending almost a decade reviewing these and outright hating them elvis the alien at least acknowledged the first 3 as decent films of varying genres. And the rest as off the walls so bad they're good especially since 3 really screwed the continuity and setting up big time
@@wednesdaygeckok.7899 Honestly I get enjoying these two alone. Every movie after this one, retcons the ending of the previous movie to such a point that it becomes infuriating.
Like this one kind of excuses it with the book (that nobody has read or heard of) explaining that the lil girl was killed and Alice escaped control, (though that's important shit they shouldn't of skipped in the movie) but it gets ridiculous after this movie.
[RE: Extinction Ending]
Alice gets a shit ton of clones, and her psychic powers are OP
[RE: Afterlife Intro]
All Alice's clones are dead, and she lost all her psychic powers within the first 5 minutes.
RE: Afterlife Ending]
Alice, Chris, Claire, and K-mart have a safe zone, and plan to bring survivors to Arcadia to survive
[RE: Retribution Intro]
Chris, and K-mart are never seen again, Claire disappears till the end of the next movie. Alice is captured and made to star in the Dawn of the Dead remake.
[RE: Retribution Ending]
Alice gets her psychic powers back, and teams up with Re5 Jill Valentine, Ada Wong, Albert Wesker, and Leon S. motherfucking Kennedy, to save the world. It's gonna be epic.
[RE: The Last Chapter starts]
Alice doesn't have her powers now, Leon, Jill and Ada are never mentioned again, (the movie doesn't even care enough to say if they died or not, Alice just forgets they ever existed) the epic fight is over, and the mother of all retcons trigger happy movies is about to begin.
@@Trojianmaru Jill gets psychic powers. lmao
I'd rather see that movie.
@@EternalStorm796 😅 thanks for pointing that out, clearly I was thinking of the movie I would much rather of seen. Though she did get T-virus powers that made her super strong, super agile, and super blonde.
I like to think a supernatural zombie apocalypse was just overlapping the T virus zombie outbreak
Yeah, like it was supposed to happen in a few years, but then this outbreak happened first, and the necromancer was like, "Shit, go! Go! Go! They are stealing our thunder!"
these videos are a riot
Can we just address Decker looking in solid shape in that intro. the hair flailing in the wind. God DAYUMMM sir.
This movie solidified that I would not enjoy this franchise
The first movie was disappointing to me because it had very little to do with the game, at the time it was my favorite franchise and the remake of the original was my favorite game of all time
This one I thought could steer it in the right direction since it was going to start taking elements from the games, but instead of doing them justice I thought it did them a great disservice
The actress who plays Jill Valentine was good and that's about the only thing I like about this film, otherwise it's just even more ridiculous over the top action centered around Alice. Nemesis being some kind of Terminator who ends up having a heart and a conscious at the end just made me leave the movie theater mad as hell, I've never seen any of the others past this one
The first movie proved that being faithful doesn't make something less good. It isn't a good movie but it's the best in the series.
@@Chelaxim Yeah I didn't specify either that I didn't dislike the first film, I just found it disappointing and kind of bizarre. It's actually this video series where I first learned that it's just because the film was not written as a Resident Evil film to begin with lol
It's okay for what it is, it just makes sense that the Resident Evil title was tacked onto it
I owned it and I watched it a fair few times because I was hungry for anything Resident Evil, but that's why this film really let me down
He decided to feed the dogs...
You got me Decker. Had me laughing hard enough that my service dog woke up, and walked over the check on me.
Thank you for making a bad night better. Bad phantom limb, pain and itch all day.
Always a good day when you post … fav and only movie reviewer.. keep it up ..
Just gotta say....looking real good brother! Good on you!
Really enjoying the Summer of Mila Jovovich. I was wondering if you were gonna review Monster Hunter and/or Joan of Arc?
Jill's actress doing everything in her power to mimic the animations and tone from the game down to actually playing it and studying it for this Raccoon City fire of a movie is something of a travesty. Always felt bad for her putting that much effort while almost everything else felt phoned in.
Then X Men Apocalypse said, hoid my beer.
Boo Decker your beach bod is putting me to shame. Guess i have no excuses left now.
Great review as always. Thanks for the fun
I was lucky enough to see the nemesis costume on display at the London IMAX theatre
oh heck yes, keep 'em coming!!
Great landscape you got there Decker 😎 hope you have a good summer !
Your videos don't come out fast enough Q.Q.
Love you always excited to watch one of your videos. The reason Cain could have given to Dr. Ashford was that "I needed to test The Nemesis program and saw that you were leading Alice to a location so they can also send Nemsis there too" it's not much and it would have explaind why he would have let him keep telling alice and the gang where to go. Plot holes man :/
Your dedication and editing skills make me so proud to be subscribed to your wonderful, awesome channel
AND THEY MUST RUN one of my favorite Decker quotes
“Hey Payton Couldn’t Help But Notice That Limp.. 🔫” 😂😂😂
I heard The Meg 2 is coming out soon, Decker and his explanations of sharksploitation movies has me giddy, hopefully he’ll tackle that when it’s out- I mean he was standing on a beach 😂
I still can't figure out how you are below 200k subscribers. Easily one of the top ten reviewers in TH-cam history.
Always a pleasure to see an upload from Decker Shado. I can't wait until it's just the norm for movie reviews on TH-cam.
Noticed the CN tower when the car gets hit.
Hey man, haven’t watched your vids for a little and I’m binging to catch up. Just gotta say that you look great man!
Oh, come on! Look at Nemesis, look at that beautiful, heart warming smile. What else could he be than a genuinely good guy. 🙂
Woooo RE Apocalypse: This was my fav version of Resident Evil film adaptation as it was an interesting interpretation of RE 3 as it was pretty cool how Nemsis was created and portrayed till RE3 remake explained his true creation process. Thanks again Shado Decker for going over my fav film series 😁
10:48 hahahahahaa!! That caught me off guard!
You're the only content creator like this that I 100% always enjoy. You just never miss man. Plus that hair......
Love your content. Stay well. Your reviews are always a great binge to distract from depression/anxiety.
Been following you for a while now. Just wanted to say thanks for your quality content.
"GTA MOTHERFUCKER!!" The highlight of the movie to me
My second favorite Resident Evil film. Scared the crap out of me first time I saw this.
this is the last time that these films were even remotely tolerable since it's all downhill from Extinction onwards.
plus, Nemesis was actually pretty cool in this film.
Enjoyed this review Deck! Keep ‘em coming sir!
Decker, your reviews are great. I love the comedy you bring to the reviews. I hope many good things come your way!
This movie had so much potential to be a legit RE movie if only they actually stuck to the game lure
Mika Jokavich really lost it in two years. She looked so good in the first movie and turned into the Mila Jokavich in every single movie since then.
The amount alice undermind jill she should have had her own spinoff .
I’m always surprised they always are able to print out papers about an apocalypse. Wen said apocalypse is legit happening out side the door.
Hey hey now, that’s the power of the press! Never miss a chance to print a good story.
I'm not a huge fan of the movies but i'll watch Decker review anything. Keep it up man!
0:09 - 0:31 🥵💨... 🥵💨... 🥵💨... *It's...*
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*DECKER SHADO'S FLYING CIRCUS!*
*nods* Lookin' pretty jacked there Mamoa!!
19:05 she is Mila Jovovich/Alice. You could bisect her. Drop one half into a volcano. Punt the other half into a black hole. And she would still be able to regrow her body and kill you before you have a chance to turn around
Your videos get better and better, Decker! Your reviews are always spot on, but you know exactly where to put in the "Like & Subscribe" appeal and how to make it seamless. Nice work!
Absolutely loving these series of videos great content for the children 👌👌
Great video as usual, Decker!
Stay weird
Stay awesome.
Much love, bro
Hilarious review Decker, your videos always entertain.
"Mountains of verifiable video evidence." Didn't they have, like, ONE tape? Possibly damaged by radiation, thus making it look possibly edited?
Oh hey cool, Galveston
So deadite like with that whole laboratory mutation thing,
Although this was written as a specific Resident Evil movie CAPCOM wouldn't allow WS Anderson to follow any plot from the games on this or any of his Resident Evil films. They allowed him to use some characters, names, places etc. but anything story wise had to be different from the games. As they wanted nothing to interfere with their sales. CAPCOM have done this twice more with Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021), which made $42m on a $25m budget and needed at least $84/85m to break even and the Netflix Resident Evil series which was cancelled after just a few episodes due to how poorly it was received. Each time CAPCOM put story restrictions on the projects (to varying degrees).
i for one hate that they bothered to insert character from the games just for name recognition while changing the overal game story so much Jill wasn't Jill anymore, just a hardboiled cop fleeing to the city limits, i mean you easily replace the names of Jill, Carlos and the rest of the game character and nothing changes in the overall story
if you wanna go your own way with an established franchise you can work in some nods to the games like some shots were literally shot for shot remakes of ingame cgi sequences but dragging in randomly some game characters just for brand recognition while completely retcon their ingame history is imo the wrong way to speak to the fans (not to mention even though i liked that shots recreating the RE code veronica sequence regarding the hellicopter and stuff but replacing Claire in there for Alice still is wrong)
also knowing that ingame wesker had superhuman capabilities due to his own injection with the t-stuff it makes some sense in universe that alice gained some powers but as the movie series goes on the overall story of the movies makes less and less sense since the movies rely heavily on some events have to have taken place while others are simply reconned because alice had to be the star int he story ... so yeah i am still pissed of the RE movie franchise and the decision the makers did, cool visuals aside thewhole stuff feels like a bad fever dream fanfic scenario minus the fan, its more a cashgrab off of a game series
“Made it look like an incredibly elaborate Halloween costume”… isn’t that basically what a movie monster costume is?
The good thing about this movie was the skincare trailer😂
Good what good times those were😤
I don’t know if it’s a fair trade but not having the end text, at least we have a new way of introducing a call of action in each video. Cheers Decker
And last time Alice's recap will make sense or match up with the movie(s) it is recapping. Unironically it is also the first recap in the series. Things get messy real quick after that.
Sssooo... completely off topic but, who here liked Mila's performance in the 2018 Hellboy?
Not just good hair, but that is a beach body many would envy. Concerning the movie, this was one with at least a string of memorable scenes and effects.