Resident Evil: Degeneration review
Resident Evil: Degeneration
Clare Redfield (who featured in the Resident Evil 2 game) is at an airport to meet a friend when a passenger plan approaching the airport crash lands following an outbreak of the T-Virus on board. Takes about 20 seconds for the airport to turn into zombie central. Bunkering down in the airports VIP area with a handful of other survivors Clare is rescued by Leon Kennedy, another character from the games.
Meanwhile there's a big conspiracy going on with a dodgy Senator and a pharmaceutical company implicated in the zombie shenanigans.
There's also a terrorist group determined to expose the world to the truth of what happened at Racoon City. Are they behind the airport outbreak? Would they risk a Racoon repeat just to prove a point? Well you'll have to watch it I guess.
To be blunt, I found the plot of Resident Evil: Degeneration hard to follow. I haven't played the games so I didn't have a lot of the background, so I'm guessing a lot of the conspiracy stuff went over my head. The plot seemed to plod along for quite a while before picking up pace at the end. There were a couple of belated plot twists that seemed to just add to my confusion rather than anything else.
The real reason to watch Resident Evil: Degeneration is to check out the impressive CG animation. Some of it is genuinely jaw dropping in terms of it's realism. The one area that CG seems to fall down on at the moment is with characters facial expressions, lip syncing and expressing emotions facially. Once CG animators nail there's the potential to make 'real' actors obsolete. That being said, I'm not sure why they decided to make this film 100% CG as there wasn't a lot on show that couldn't have been achieved with live action. I wonder what the budget was like in comparison to a live action feature of the same kind and length?
In summary
If you are into a) CG animation b) Resident Evil or c) zombies give Resident Evil: Degeneration a look, just don't expect the story line to rock your world. Overall I'd give it a solid 6.5 out of 10.
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I watched this film. First of all, it has nothing common with real Resident Evil except creatures. I really didn’t like this movie.
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Did you really watch this movie? I’m not sure what “real” Resident Evil is but the film is set in the same universe as the game and takes place after Resident Evil 4, the game.
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I loved this film, especially in comparison to the horrible live action movies. I was not too crazy about the crappy romance in there, and was slightly disappointed that Claire didn’t do very much, especially near the end. It kind of follows the trend in the games that she’s not that important (ie Wesker’s reports describe the action of RE2 as being all Leon’s doing with Claire not even mentioned, and in RE:CVX Chris has to come in and save her). I’m very happy with this movie, despite it’s obvious problems. I especially like this review, because even though you haven’t played the games, your review was less biased and more…intelligent sounding than many of the other reviews I’ve found on the internet. Half the people don’t even know what they’re talking about. For example, when someone complains about the lip-syncing, everyone and their mothers jump on them saying “well the movie was made in Japanese first so that’s why”, despite the fact that the movie was made in ENGLISH, to preserve the feelings of the games (which in Japan are English audio with Japanese subtitles).
If it makes you feel any better, I;ve played most of the games and I still got confused near the end a little bit. Still better than the live action movies IMO though.