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6. Nemesis -- Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)

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Follow-up to Paul WS Anderson's middling-to-good video game adaptation Resident Evil (2002), Resident Evil: Apocalypse takes Alice (Milla Jovovich) out of the Umbrella Corporation's underground facility and into a hellish Raccoon City, where the zombie apocalypse has hit hard. And, this time, Anderson brings in the well-loved and much-feared video game antagonist Nemesis to stalk her through the streets.

A nigh-unstoppable mutant with a sewn-up face and an arsenal of heavy weaponry, Nemesis -- here played by Matthew G Taylor -- is the kind of, well, nemesis that can make a franchise. The creature design is spot on, feeling true to the source material while offering a tangible, non-CG monster for audiences to fear, and it casts a long shadow over the movie before a final act twist that challenges everything we think we know.

Alas, Apocalypse is still a Paul WS Anderson film, and despite a stellar villain and an ass-kicking lead, it manages to flounder in plot and substance. It bets the house on big, dramatic action sequences and comes up short.

How could they get it so right while getting it so wrong?

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