There’s a typical big-boss fight at the end, but the rest of the film is dedicated to leftover conspiracy plots and droning exposition with a few moments of hysterical character drama mixed in.
There are a few uninspired zombie encounters in the first twenty minutes before the story completely abandons every threat until the finale. Through thick and thin, you could always count on the Resident Evil games to deliver plenty of slimy monsters and gore-drenched chaos, but Degeneration is damn-near bloodless, lacking those spook house mechanics that keep us coming back to our consoles. The script constantly drops references and plot points that will confuse anyone without an encyclopedic knowledge of the series, and even then, there’s little reason to care.īut the cardinal sin is the sheer lack of creature action. Furthermore, it’s virtually inaccessible to all but hardcore fans. Like the games, Degeneration is riddled with clichés, laughably awkward dialogue and cheesy voice acting without the benefit of a controller. The short answer is yes, but that’s also the problem. The burning question from fans is whether this film feels closer to Capcom’s Resident Evil universe than those god-awful Paul W.S. As the military deals with the situation, series hero Leon Kennedy arrives on the scene and, along with a rookie soldier named Angela, must rescue the survivors and discover the source of the terrorist threat. Trapped in the middle of the insanity is Claire Redfield, who gets stuck in a terminal along with a small band of survivors. The country has since recovered from the zombie outbreak, but a terrorist group gets a hold of the deadly T-virus and unleashes it onto a large airport. Fans have long hoped that Resident Evil: Degeneration – the first feature length anime from Capcom – would be the one to do justice to the franchise, but this aptly-named flick only ends up as a painful reminder of why most games should stay games.įollowing the timeline of the game series, Degeneration picks up seven years after the Raccoon City incident. That is, until we saw Milla Jovovich kung-fu her way through a trilogy of lousy film versions (with a fourth on the horizon). The Resident Evil games are so horror movie-inspired, so cinematic in their execution that movies seemed like a no-brainer.
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