Resident Evil: Degeneration

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Finally, a TRUE Resident Evil movie has come after the utter failure of the crap Trilogy. The re trilogy films really messed up the story and unnecessarily inserted new characters like Alice. Thanks to CAPCOM for Reincarnating the Spirit of Resident Evil Game in the movie. The RE Trilogy have completely destroyed the story and wasted such an epic title. The Trilogy movies should have never been made by Hollywood and should be made by the game producer CAPCOM. I watched this movie yesterday night and it reminded me of my most beloved game which i played tens of times. I very rarely comment on movies but after watching this movie i couldn't stop myself to write a comment. The story continues after Resident Evil 2 game. Its really nice to see the characters from the game - Leon S Kennedy, Claire Redfield. Both were the protagonists of Re2 game episodes. Both characters are perfectly modeled as they were in the game. Even the Costumes of the characters are same. Faces of characters are nicely made and Claire Redfield looks very sweet and cute. The movie also references stories from RE 1&2 game. The movie is full of scenes from the past games and so the movie is faithful to the re games series. The boss of the re2 game is in the movie too. CG & Voice performance is superb. Ultimately CAPCOM delivered a Movie which gamers were expecting to see from many years. I think its just the beginning, future movies from CAPCOM will be more intense and action packed and will be faithful to the game. I strongly recommend this movie to those who watched the crap trilogy, and feel the REAL Resident Evil, and off-course the gamers of RE games who waited long to see this movie. My 9/10 to this movie.

Unfortunately, this movie actually feels like a video game. The dialog scenes look like the parts of a video game that set up the parts between levels. CGI still has not evolved up to the point where they can replace actors. The movements still look kind of fake, and a CGI face can't register emotions the way a human one can. Maybe CGI will replace actors some day, but not today. The story structure resembles Japanese anime in many ways, and that isn't a good thing. I'm not sure what the fascination is with Japanese storytelling. Even the Japanese would rather watch our movies. Some have commented that this movie is better than the three films with Milla Jovovich. Point taken. Then again, a root canal is better than any movie with Milla Jovovich.

Well...Managed to see RE:D today, and by God what a mess. The live action series, while dissatisfying, looks like Schindler's List compared with this turkey. Visually, it was OK, but nothing better than a CG cut scene from a game, the animations were stiff and awkward though. But nothing that can't be looked over. Design was mediocre, The shining star was the Wilpharm facility, which looked lovely but the rest was very run of the mill. The G-Virus creature was crap, it looked very cartoon like. Story was pretty much not present, at times they hint at plots, which if they decided to go deep and make a story out of it, sounded interesting, but all these ideas get is a brief mention then more mindless action set pieces roll in. The characters were bland, more so than in the live action films. I swear they modeled Leon's personality after Keanu Reeves' acting, more wooden than a tree stump. Here is a fun drinking game, get your friends over and watch the film, take a shot every time you see Leon just standing there super stiff like he has a pole up his exit shaft. Aside from being bland the characters are also quite stupid, to the point where it is no longer believable, they are worse than walking clichés. Now, here is the big thing, this feels nothing like Resident Evil, yet all I hear from blind fans is that this film is the best RE film ever made....with this in mind I had a look at the complaints they made about the live action films and compared them to what this film delivers: Not enough monsters was a big one from the live action films. But Degeneration only has Zombies and the G-Monster....the live action films at their lowest monster count had more (Zombies, Dogs, Licker, Licker v2.0) No original characters from the games was another complaint, yet the only one who does anything in the film is Leon, Claire takes a back seat to, you guessed it, a female lead not from the games.... Alice having super powers, is one of the few points I agree with, and thankfully none of the characters have super powers in this film, however some of the stuff Leon does is too much to believe ,and he doesn't have the Virus melding with his body as an excuse. Atmosphere was one of the biggest complaints, they whined about the live action films not having the same horror and atmosphere of the games and that they were all about action. Yet Degeneration has none of the atmosphere either, it is all action, no horror so why aren't these adamant fans complaining about that? I am a huge RE fan, have been for over 10 years, and I can say, this film fails on more levels than the live action ones do, in fact it doesn't even do right what the live actions ones did. It also fails as a film, with a loose plot at best, being overshadowed at all times by action sequences that make no sense and have been put in there just to be there, and they aren't even well done. The people giving this movie 10/10 and praising it as the RE messiah will recant this down the track and start slamming it as being nothing more than an insult to moviegoers and a betrayal to RE fans. Avoid this "film" there is nothing redeeming about it, in fact, this is what an Uwe Boll RE film would be like.

I gave it a 7 because I'm a geek to the games, and this is pretty loyal to the series. In truth, as a critic, I'd say a 6 would be a more accurate portrayal of my review. First, it's really awesome to see Claire and Leon together again. There's plenty of action, and the zombies are fun when they pop up (mostly at the airport setting - which is actually not a setting it takes place in for the majority of the movie, just to say). It's not a perfect movie though, and I can't help but draw comparisons in ways which "Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children" suffered from (which was a movie I utterly despised). While you don't have to have played the game to understand it (unlike FF7) - yeah, you're definitely gonna have to be a fan of the series to truly appreciate it. It looks beautiful, but there's the every-now-&-then when the characters still look and move too CGI-ish. And I can't help but notice how Leon has more Japanese facial features here. The plot works enough for a story to tell, but it seems to force in some cheesy melodrama, and the typical "if you ain't important, you're meat" thing. The way it moves and ends, I wonder if anything here will even be incorporated to the game arc, or if it was really its own story (because it feels like it)... like the games, some things aren't entirely resolved and new questions are made (and with the games going zombie-less, it makes you wonder!). Still, if you're a fan, it's definitely worth watching -- you got the pair again (and I'm always pleased with Alyson Court continuing to reprise her role; there's no other Claire!), you got real zombies again, and it's all about kicking back and just watching them kick serious ass!