BIOHAZARD : Degeneration (Resident Evil)

[IchiKyo]

The 8 first minutes of the Movie
http://uk.dvd.ign.com/dor/objects/14...en_111008.html

Also the 3 next minutes
http://uk.dvd.ign.com/dor/objects/14...ed_111008.html

[EternalDestiny]

Originally Posted by IchiKyo

The 8 first minutes of the Movie
http://uk.dvd.ign.com/dor/objects/14...en_111008.html

Also the 3 next minutes
http://uk.dvd.ign.com/dor/objects/14...ed_111008.html

Yup, seen it. Voice syncing wasn't that good. Will still watch it regardless

[ershin]

Looks likes this one's out...

[NakedAngelX]

Awesome Awesome Awesome!! Didn't live up to the expectation, but still good

The good: the action and movement animations is superb.

Bad: Face animation sucks royal ass, no expression. Leon looks like a stone throughout the whole movie.

Spoiler for Angela Boob:

Good thing about her, at the end huge tasty boobs!!

Spoiler for Storyline:

T-Virus will never end will it? The Incineration thing didn't work much, at the end the new team after the T-Virus still found curtis's claw or something. And that will surely produce T-Virus again. The only "Bloody awesome" moment for me in this movie was when Leon said:" If you don't save someone, you will never save anyone" And shot Curtis in the head.

2nd Movie! 2nd Movie! And next time don't forget to make the face more alive

[Hypernova]

Well, the acting is stiff and the animation cheap by 2008 standards.

But heh, good ol zombie fun!

[Sander RX]

Nice appetizer for RE5.

Spoiler for Degeneration:

Damn no Wesker?!
Tricell...will it play a role in RE5...or is it a material for the new movie?

[LightningZERO]

Spoiler for movie:

Pretty interesting action movie. The facial expressions are not so good, but Leon is badass, and Claire is hot, that's good enough for me. Hate the Leon X Angela parts though, and wishes there were more Claire scenes

7/10

[TigerII]

Spoiler for soilz:

It was okay. Basically it was fan service for the Claire and Leon fans. Nothing really tied in from Resident Evil 4 up. I was mad Wesker wasn't mentioned.


One thing I did notice where by 2005, there have been many infections worldwide. I think it said like one million dead total from virus related infections.

Overall 7/10. Now I am waiting for Resident Evil 5.

[Psychodragon]

Originally Posted by NakedAngelX

Spoiler for Angela Boob:

Good thing about her, at the end huge tasty boobs!!

Spoiler:

I completely agree! At first I thought, "that can't be her, could it?" And upon recognizing her, I was like, "WOW..."

Yeah, the voice synchonization turned out badly, but otherwise it was definitely great for RE fans. I've personally never played RE, but have kept up with the franchise ever since its genesis. Here's to hoping that they keep the franchise up!

-PD

[Spring_sakura111]

Angela's Drama....ewww..I don't like Angela. It was great! Claire is so awesome as usual. Ahohoho!

[sayde]

I watched this not expecting much out of it. Fortunately, it turned out to be better than I thought it would. At the very least, I found it more enjoyable than the RE movies. Obviously, there were some aspects of the film that could definitely be improved upon, but I wish more companies would do things like this -- in other words, if someone gets the bright idea to make a movie based off a video game franchise, I'd prefer it if they kept it far away from the live action genre.

Overall, I too give it a 7/10. Now I need to find the song that plays during the end credits.

[xanth]

Originally Posted by sayde

I watched this not expecting much out of it. Fortunately, it turned out to be better than I thought it would. At the very least, I found it more enjoyable than the RE movies. Obviously, there were some aspects of the film that could definitely be improved upon, but I wish more companies would do things like this -- in other words, if someone gets the bright idea to make a movie based off a video game franchise, I'd prefer it if they kept it far away from the live action genre.

Overall, I too give it a 7/10. Now I need to find the song that plays during the end credits.

I don't know, I haven't seen the Live-Action movies (besides 20 minutes of the second one) but I was really disappointed with this. Compared to a lot of the games, the gore was relatively minor and unimpressive, and the plot seemed pretty predictable and formulaic to me.

Spoiler for Setting:

Also, they made such a big deal about being set in the airport, I was really surprised that that part ended so quickly, and we moved on to exposition and the totally unrealistic company building. Resident Evil can carry a single setting very well, and I was disappointed that the airport setting wasn't fleshed out more than it was. The company building...why would anyone ever design a building like that?

Spoiler for Characters:

Claire was given the short end of the stick in this one. She was hardly ever armed, and was seemingly just there for the "OMGITSCLAIRE" factor. This especially shone through in the company scene when she decided that she should for some reason, go up to the top of the building that was obviously going to collapse later on, just so she could walk around an empty control room. I mean, seriously, nothing even jumped out at her when she got there. Also, Angela's whiny and I expected her to die with her partner in the first scene. Horrible character.

Spoiler for Overall:

I spent much of this movie screaming at the screen things to the effect of "Look! It's got a giant blinking eyeball on its shoulder! That's what you should be shooting at! Haven't any of you ever played a video game before?!" To me, that's what this movie felt like; that someone was given the gist of Resident Evil and it's characters and monsters, and decided to make a movie out of recycled concepts. There wasn't ANYTHING remotely new or compelling about it, and most people who have seen movies before could essentially guess what was going to happen in every single scene.

Quite honestly, I'd say the opposite and give it a 3 out of 10. That said, the ending theme is called "Guilty Fever" by someone named Anna Tsuchiya. Enjoy.

[TigerII]

^^^ This was nothing more than fan service. Everyone wants Claire from the old fans and the new fans wanted Leon.

[germanturkey]

it was entertaining. better than the live action movies. I wanted more of Claire, but you can't get everything you want. plus i laughed out loud where she was armed with only the umbrella. irony at its greatest.

the ending segways into RE5 with that new pharmaceutical company coming into the picture.

[roriconfan]

REVIEW AND NECRO

PROLOGUE
I am not a fan of the games but I know well of the events and the characters in the franchise. Allow me to mention how a non-fanboy felt while watching this movie.

ART SECTION: 8/10 [Shoot them in the head! It increases the ratings!]
-Being fully CGI and with a huge fame behind it, the expectations were pretty high. The movie did transmit the imagery from the games in a high degree. All the areas were reminiscent of locations and events from the games, which does make it likable to the fans.
-The quality of the polygons was very good, especially in the explosions and the machinery.
-Yet, in the area of the character figures it felt rather sloppy, as they moved in a fake matter most of the time because of the lack in proper physics. They walked like robots and interacted with other objects in a not-believable way. The best example in the field remains Advent Children, which does a far better job at feeling realistic (not just looking) despite being made several years ago.
-Other minor glitches is the censorship of blood and gore, as when someone is bitten by a zombie or a zombie’s head blows up, the camera moves away and lets it imply that it happened. That totally ruined the shocking aspect of the movie; probably done to make it accessible to a wider audience. Too bad; it ruined my fun.
-The movie did include several cinematics, widely used in zombie movies in order to invoke fear or excitement. It also had plenty of gunfights and explosions to please a typical viewer who expects a lot of brainless violence. Yet, all these felt very familiar to most Hollywood movies and personally I felt like I was watching a rerun rather a new movie. Because nothing was original in the way the plot unfolded. I have seen it a thousand times already and it ceased to be scary or exciting anymore. That essentially means that the movie used a tired formula of cinematics that no longer make an impact on you. Visually, it was great to watch but aesthetically it felt old-fashioned and predictable.

SOUND SECTION: 6/10 [Die monster! Die! TAKATAKATAKA! KABOOM! ARGH!]
The music themes and the special effects made me feel like I was watching a typical action film, so it didn’t took much time to forget them entirely. Voice acting was ok, although I have issues with how they talked and how fitting their lips were moving. The dialogues were dry and boring, with lip-sync being almost absent. Generally, it was an average treatment.

STORY SECTION: 3/10 [Deza vu ?]
If I could describe the story in a flash that would be “A rehash of what we already saw in the games.” It felt like I was watching the same events happening all over again; this time in a far less important way. What I mean:

Spoiler:

-Umbrella corp is dismantled. Oh, look, another corporation appears with the exact same goals. And when it fails, oh, look, another one pops up to take its place. You never run out of generic, evil, multi-national organizations in the world of Resident Evil.
-Zombies appear again (duh, it’s Resident Evil after all). And look, another identical Tyrant boss for our heroes to fight. Only this one has sentimental issues over a photo and doesn’t feel threatening like his predecessors.
-We get another super-secret-secure facility of virus experimentations. Which of course loses control and goes haywire in 0,2 seconds, despite its so-called perfect security.
-Wesker betrayed everyone and escaped. Oh, look, another ally-going-freelance is present. Only he is neither cool nor macho like uber-Wesker.

Did the story add anything new to the franchise? Well, it did give off the feeling that it would be far more multi-layered in the beginning, as nasty politicians and ecology fanatics appeared. Yet, it all went to waste by having the first to be just red herring and the later to be an out-of-screen and unimportant fraction. By the end of the movie, an airport and a secret facility were blown to bits and hundreds of nameless people were turned to zombies; but none of these affected the overall story, nothing new was revealed, nothing solid was resolved and the characters did not improve or mature in any way. It was by all accords, just like a filler mission with repeated footage from the games.

CHARACTER SECTION: 4/10 [Do you like my hairdo? Come on punk, make my day.]
My God, the cast was so cheesy! Goes well with the story being Swiss cheese from all the plot holes. The most stereotypical American archetypes are present and brought a bitter taste to my mouth from the very first minute I layed my eyes on them. What I mean:

Spoiler:

-Claire was the typical bimbo that gets chased by bad zombies while wearing tight cloths. She couldn’t even fight back until Leon gave her a gun. Duh, didn’t her experience in Racoon City made her tough? She then gets all fuzzy with a rich guy, just to be manipulated like the typical American bimbo she was based upon. Yuck!
-Leon turned Terminator and started killing dozens of zombies without even sweating. He is essentially a heavy-dude, out to beat everything in his way and save the chicks with his awesome hairdoo and tough look. Yeah, he is cool but also dry as a character. He doesn’t evolve or mature (that happened outside of the movie) so he is just a walking killing machine.
-The Hindu girl was there just as an excuse for Claire to find the courage to save innocent people. Meanwhile, dozens of people were being killed as she was going for the girl and not caring about all the rest.
-The politician was the cliché asshole. All American movies have a guy you are supposed to dislike and over here, this is the guy. How did he got elected anyway? He doesn’t even try to hide what an asshole he is.
-The rich guy was a eunich and a bad machiavelian character. He did play his cards well but in the end he was caught out of the blue and took him, like, two seconds to lose all his coolness and turn to a spineless asshole as well.
-Angela the female cop and her brother were terrible attempts at providing drama. How can anyone find it dramatic if the random cop Claire meets is conveniently the sister to a bad guy who turns Tyrant just to kill some random soldiers and goes emotionally unstable? Terrible I say.
-The zombies… were mooks. Nobody cares about them. They are not scary and they don’t even acomplish anything.

VALUE SECTION: 3/10 [How much do you give for the T-virus?]
Sure, the name alone will make it valuable. Yet, I doubt even fans of the games will watch it more than once, as it adds nothing new as a RE movie or as a zombie movie or even as a CGI movie.

ENJOYMENT SECTION: 3/10 [Want some pop-corn?]
-Visually, it was ok although I have seen far better.
-The story really sucked as it was not just simple, but also full of convenient events that forced the plot to unfold in ways the heroes had no way of knowing or preventing. I mean, the bad guy was installing bombs and spreading zombie-virus in high security places all the time, full of elite soldiers and guards on the lookout. Yet, nobody seemed to be able to take notice of a known criminal walking around in top-secret places like he owned the place or discovering any of the bombs.
-Not to mention how cliché all the characters acted, from the little Hindu girl being the only one to recognize the politician to the politician being generically acting like an asshole, down to the Tyrant spotting a tiny photograph in an area full of rubble and explosions.
-As for the action part, the movie was very Hollywood like, full of pointless explosions and shootings and cheesy dialogues you can find in a run-of-the-mill American b-movie.
-As for the feeling, it was similar to Romero’s zombie movies, which to be honest is a tired formula everyone keeps copying for the last 30 years and has long ceased to be interesting or scary. The horror genre has moved to other fields, where terror lies in the unknown, and left behind the image of grotesque monsters chasing teenage bimbos.

VERDICT: 4.5 / 10
How many identical zombie movies are there? I keep shooting them and they keep coming.

SUGGESTION LIST
Scary games: Silent Hill, Fatal Frame.
Scary movies: Ringu, In the Mouth of Madness, Event Horizon.
Great CGI movies: Advent Children, Appleseed.