Resident Evil: Degeneration

Posted by Blackett on Jan 17, 2009 in Animation, Features, Film, Games | 2 comments

The hype wagon for Resident Evil 5 has kicked into full flow with this release of straight to DVD zombie joy.

Acting as a prequal of sorts to Resident Evil we see the terrible two-some of Leon S. Kennedy and and Claire Redfield battle zombie hordes as a tale of stock exchanges, government cover ups and illegal drug trafficing slowly unfolds. With a giant Nemesis like creature, the rise of a new evil organization out of the ashes of Umbrella and an airport filled with zombies the film has alot of potential, but does it live up to it?

So what was it like I hear you ask and I would respond with a resounding meh. There is far too much talking for what should be a horror/action film, this talking seriously suffers from translation issues, the Japanese to English is more than a little iffy. The 15 rating means that the violent sections (which there are so few of) fall a little flat, there are random spirts of blood but the disgusting shots you want to cringe away from are no where to be seen.

But its not aweful. If you are a fan of the series you will love the little nods to previous games, the map screen music playing when they have to get to one side of an airport filled with zombies is my personal favourite. But there is enough wrong that I felt a little dissapointed, Claire and Chris barely shared any screen time instead a women who looked like Angelina Jolie was shoe horned in with some story about her brother wanting to expose the zombie cover up was shoe horned in. The whole tale also felt a little bit misogynistic with Leon having to save the day at every point poor Claire just looked a bit lost and then cried a little because she got a cut on her leg.

I would reccomend this to people who love Resident Evil. But if you know nothing I would stear clear.

http://aka.blackrat.com donna black

I really liked the animation and to be honest was not expecting too much from it so wasn’t really disappointed, as most spin off films about games are bad or at least a little tacky, but as A big fan of the resident evil games I did kinda like this film. But I agree with you about the randomer girl that Chris was hooked up with I thought that ppl who played the game would of preferred more on screen time with Claire and Chris rather than them separate most of the time. Yeah and was quite annoying that he saved the day since Resident Evil was one of those games that had empowering female characters and I think they relied to much on Chris’s character in this film rather than Claire and I always found Chris quite annoying in the games.
Blackett

I love Chris and his ‘best conditioned hair in videogame history’ (I’m sure he won an award for it) he was very good in RS 4. I feel I was very negative, I didn’t hate it and will happily watch it again. I just wanted more zombies.

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