That was..... actually pretty good : O Well i expected nothing but disappointment from this movie, i scored degeneration a 4, and didn't see what was going to be much different in this one from the clips i'd seen. Following on roughly from around the events of resident evil 4, the story follows Leon (of RE2 and 4) as he continues his adventures as an American spy/super special solder of some sorts. He ends up in some obscure soviet resembling war zone, amidst freedom fighters and government soldiers, with rumblings of monsters being involved in the fighting. If you've seen any cgi game adaptation made in the lastfew years, the art and sound are going to be entirely familiar, its the same stuff used in exactly the same way. In fairness, they don't slaughter the facial animations in the way degeneration and tekken did, and generally it all works. I watched the dub, which is not the norm for me, but proved to be sufficient, fairly sure Ada and Leon are voiced by their game VA's so all good on that front.
Content wise, the films starts off very poorly, all of the freedom fighters made me want to self harm, as soon as they starting spewing dialogue, and the plot seemed ridiculous as expected from anything from RE these days.
Do not fear, it does infact come together towards the mid sections, and builds up to a dam right impressive finale. What was particularly satisfying was after all the early games going on about the various viruses, being used to create bio weapons, only for them to continually get defeated in their beta stages by single human opponents, we do actually get to see monsters deployed in a war zone, and they actually work well. Getting to see the perfect form tyrants in action was particularly satisfying, i was almost in awe when the first one showed up.
Overall, if you have any remaining love for RE give this a watch, at least as good as the 2nd Final fantasy cgi movie, if not the best cgi movie made.
anangelsreview
April 6, 2013
Recommended
This reminded me of Resident Evil 4 slightly. Leon goes in alone and gets captured by the people he came there to stop. I guess the only thing real different is that they found something that controls the creatures to a point. We have all of the characters from Leon’s side of the storyline like the ‘bombshell’ Ada Wong to Leon Kennedy and Ingrid Hunnigan. And even in all of this, they have new characters that actually are loveable even if they don’t stay for very long. The problems I have with the show are actually rather minimal but the ending feels as though it wasextremely predictable. We have a large fight going with a ‘new’ form of strong bio-weapon, and a facility that is about to go through genetic cleansing. Then we have the ‘boss’ fight with multiple stages to him.
It’s interesting that they used images of Resident Evil 6 in the ending theme but if you haven’t played the game, your left wondering what the reasoning was for it. I know I may be reviewing these shows out of order but a good movie normally has something that helps even new watchers understand what’s going on.
Wow, the animation actually looks so much better then what they had in Degeneration. It’s much more fluid and the characters look much more realistic without going over the boundaries of the game style. We even get the exploding heads of the zombie people that I bet those who have played the games hate. One of my favorite points is when they go into first person view because it looks so much like the real thing (When I mean real thing, I mean both game and real life horror shows). The points I do hate is that they actually show someone getting forced into one of the zombies. Whenever I see someone forcing those… things… into someone’s mouth, I always end up gagging a bit. I also hate the slow motion times they use although it’s used quite sparingly in this one. The textures are good except the fact that all the men seem to have lip-gloss or lip stick on their lips.
The English voices are pretty good and you can most of the time tell who is American and who is from the Soviet Union. Characters actually sound close to what they were in the games and I believe its because they are the same voice actors but could be wrong. The music was also rather well done and worked to the movies advantage.
KiKingsman117
February 8, 2019
Recommended
(WARNING: RESIDENT EVIL FAN PRESENT) With my mind fully on the RE2: Remake, I decided to give the animated series of Resident Evil another go. Tbh when I first watched Damnation, I really didn't think much of it, but I found myself pleasantly surprised by the quality of this film and its definitely the best out of any of the Resident Evil films. (It's not enough to make me forget Vendetta though my God what trash) Not only does it provide some decent fan service for long time RE fans, but it also touches on some serious themes of war and causes, with you know zombies addedinto the mix. Some decent action scenes with solid animation, along with relevant themes and a story deeper than what you would expect from this kind of title.
However, I can't guarantee those who aren't RE films that this will persuade them to play some of the most classic horror survival games in the industry. There are problems with this film, It lacks any meaningful character development (atleast for the main cast) it's art direction and sound are minor at best and the story is actually good....for an RE game, but it doesn't reinvent the wheel here. The dialogue also feels very minimal, with our main hero Leon dishing out one liners and not saying much else....but hey, Hannigan is really cute in those glasses. I do think this was a missed opportunity somewhat to dive deeper into Leon and Ada Wong's characters in what is ultimately a set up for RE6. The story here has no relevancy within the RE timeline, so really this should have focused more on the characters personal conflicts, something they tried yet completely fucked up in Vendetta.
Overall, not really much to say. RE fans shouldn't give this a miss, and those who aren't will probably think this is another mediocre 3D animation action pictures.
