10 More Films Hollywood Needs To Apologize For

10. Resident Evil: Apocalypse

After staging action sequences for XXX, Daredevil and Casino Royale, second unit director Alexander Witt made his helming debut with this sequel to 2002’s Resident Evil, and you can see why he never returned for the sequel

Apocalypse is slickly shot, well-staged and loaded with slam-bang set pieces, but Paul WS Anderson’s script is strictly on the level of a Saturday morning cartoon, with “cool” characters who spin their guns before holstering them or jump from a helicopter firing two weapons simultaneously if they’re really slick.

In other words, the kind of over-the-top shenanigans Robert Rodriguez serves up with his tongue firmly in his cheek are presented here without irony. When characters start wandering off alone, sneaking up on armed-to-the-teeth colleagues and hiding from zombies in a graveyard you have to wonder if the filmmakers set out to make a spoof of the first film with all the humour taken out.