10 Worst Action Movies Since 2000

10. Resident Evil: Apocalypse

Resident Evil - Nemesis Throughout this sequel, characters whose only purpose is to look €œcool€, spin their weapons before holstering them, pull fancy first-person-shooter moves or, if they€™re really slick, leap from a helicopter firing two guns simultaneously. In other words, the kind of over-the-top action that Robert Rodriguez serves up as tongue in cheek is here afforded the kind of respect given to a James Bond or Die Hard picture. Also on hand are some disposable supporting characters who behave in really stupid ways - wandering off alone, sneaking up on armed-to-the-teeth colleagues, hiding from zombies in a graveyard etc. That qualifies the picture for so-bad-it€™s-good status, but it€™s the movie€™s antagonist that makes you wonder if the filmmakers were playing with a full deck. Looking like the bastard child of Jesse Ventura and a Cenobite, the Nemesis€™s arsenal includes machine guns, grenade launchers and a gun like the one Jesse had in Predator, but while he proves adept at causing collateral damage, he€™s never able to acquire his target. During a lengthy chase with Milla Jovovich, doors become toothpicks, walls are demolished and entire buildings collapse, yet Jovovich doesn€™t suffer so much as a scratch. Hope he didn€™t cost six million dollars.
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Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'