Resident Evil: Degeneration is the first full length CG animation film based on the Resident Evil video games by Capcom. Unlike the Resident Evil live action films, Resident Evil: Degeneration is set within the same "universe" that the video games are. If you are into the games at all, Degeneration is said to take place around 12 months after the events of Resident Evil 4.
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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