Alice

As discussed in the last episode, a remake was released in 2020 in the RE Engine, set in the same alternate timeline as the Resident Evil 2 remake.

Resident Evil 3 Nemesis also directly inspired the movie Resident Evil Apocalypse, starring Mia Jovovich, which features her character of Alice fighting against Nemesis.

It's a weird movie because it just kind of has elements of Resident Evil 3.

But as I talked about in my Resident Evil movie episode, it's mostly branding.

All the movies are focused on Alice and she does like crazy flips and stuff because she gets psychic powers in that one.

Weird movies.

I love them.

Let's talk about the people in front of the

camera, starting with one Mila Jovovich as Alice.

She's back

as Alice.

Yes.

I know we talked about Mila a little bit back in episode 97 when we talked about Hellboy.

That was more than three times its production cost and ticket sales, giving the producers a financial reason to continue the series.

The ending had also left them with a starting point.

Yeah.

There's one move that Milla's character, Alice, does over and over again, where she, like, rides in on a motorcycle, then backflips off her motorcycle with it still revving, takes out two guns, and shoots the motorcycle as it flies into the air, so the motorcycle acts like a bomb.

Mm-hmm.

And it's great, and she does it in maybe three different movies.

You, you can see when he's on the phone on the way to Raccoon City, he's, he's very hesitant and I think he's about obviously becoming a father, you know, in it, and, uh, you can see he's a bit out of his depth as well in it.

And, uh, you can see he's no Alice.

You know, the, the character that, uh, Milla Jovovich played in, uh, the Po- the Paul W.S. Anderson films, versions of the Res Evils.

I mean, the first one was good.

Maybe later on you could have.

But either way, the end of Extinction leaves us with Alice finding out Jorah Mormont has been cloning her.

Yes.

Yes.

play in your hand a little bit too early.

The world has ended in extinction during the initial voiceover of the movie, because that takes place in that Mad Max wasteland.

But it's just explained through a monologue from Alice being like, well, they thought the thermonuclear bomb on Raccoon City was going to stop the viral spread.

It didn't.

I believe there's six of them.

There are six in the, uh, Alice universe-

In the Milla Jovovich

... and then there's one other one.

All of them star Milla Jovovich, you know-

His, his wife

... his wife, and Anderson is, you know, involved with all of them, the Alice series.

And they have, like, imagery from the games and characters from the games, but they're their own thing.

But you had different characters.

You had Alice.

Yeah, your main character, Alice, in the original, the 2002 version, she isn't even in the game.

Yeah.

So, yeah, they kind of, you know, I kind of feel like, you know, they kind of took a lot of liberties with the original series, you know.

I loved it a lot.

Like I liked how cheesy it was.

I liked the action and I like, you know, it's just a reference to, I see it as a reference to resident evil because, and I liked Alice.

Mila Jovovich's character wasn't from the game.

Alice was invented.

There was not one single character from the game in that first Resident Evil movie.

The OG movie was more like an action movie more than it was like the R. Oh, yeah, yeah.

And, like, I don't know.

It's like following Alice's, like, transformation into some sort of superhero.

Yeah.

And you really forget that from, I don't know, the third movie on.

But for this movie, it kind of gets it back to basics because you really don't know Alice's origin.

And I don't know if that was just a mistake or they just said, yeah, we don't have time.

Like we just here's this woman in a red dress.

If you're just an extra, or just someone who joined in the background, you're instantly a zombie in minutes.