Audience reviews
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Oldlike
The movie Resident Evil Degeneration is very competent at what it sets out to do and it is also very fun to watch. The animation feels a bit dated, especially the facial expressions, but the rest still looks quite good. I might be biased since I am a fan of the Resident Evil, or Biohazard, game franchise, but I think the movie is pretty enjoyable.
Story – 7
The narrative is reasonably well constructed. I would even say it might work better as a game than as a movie. At least that was the feeling I had while watching it, it actually made me want to play a game. Some plot threads are left unresolved. Without going into spoilers, sometimes you end up wondering how the special forces manage to discover the problematic locations so quickly.
Sound and soundtrack – 6.5
Some sound effects feel v…
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This movie is so fucking boring dude. Even the worst resident evil cutscene never made me sleep this hard.
I hate when a game studio makes movies based on their franchise and chose a setting for their movie that is the least conducive possible for the franchise's strengths to be taken advantage of. It's like all the most uninteresting in-between-game Wikipedia trivia rolled into one plot that you end up reading like Cliff Notes in order to understand the context behind that secret ending of the franchise's spin-off game. Only less important.
It's the same for the Paul W.S. Anderson movies but... as bad as those movies supposedly are, they couldn't possibly be this unentertaining, right?
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Biohazard: Degeneration (2008)
Biohazard: Degeneration or better yet Resident Evil: Degeneration. A franchise of great games and what sometimes feels the most average of average films. Live actions are great then gets a bit meh. These CGI versions are sometimes great but most often than not just meh. A lot happens during this and not all of it is necessary since it feels like 5 hours compressed into an hour and a half.
The art is very much reminiscent of the older games CGI, especially for cutscenes. I appreciate that this is from 2008 but just feels very lacklustre if I am honest. Nothing really jumps at you as amazing even though everything is generally quite nicely animated.
The OST is pretty standard and nothing special. Sounds are pretty good with some nice SFX.
Characters are…
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Just so you know, I've watched the original japanese dub.
Animation:
1) the visuals are similar to what you'd expect out of cutscenes from PS3 games.
2) there isn't any horror in this movie and considering this franchise is one of the "founders" of video game horror that we have in the present day it was a let down.
3) When characters are upside down, I expect that their hair isn't immune to physics. Unfortunately this isn't the case. Also, Leon's hair is the only one that barely moves at all when there's wind or movement. I know his hair is shorter than the womens' but it's still too long to be frozen in space, if you know what I mean.
Sound:
1) Awesome voice work from the seiyuus.
2) soundtrack and sound effects are okay
Story and characters:
1) all the mediocre hollywood cl…
Read at the sourceGarlandReese
Webster's defines the word Anime as, "a style of animation originating in Japan that is characterized by stark colorful graphics depicting vibrant characters in action-filled plots often with fantastic or futuristic themes." So, for those of you questioning if "Resident Evil (or Biohazard) Degeneration" counts as an "Anime", according to the definition, yes. This is a film originating from Japan, with lots of colorful graphics and vibrant characters with an action filled plot with a fantastic and somewhat futuristic theme. It fits the criteria. Is it any good? That's another story...
This is essentially a massive cutscene straight out of a video game connecting "Resident Evil 4" with "Resident Evil 5". Loosely at that, too. It has many of the same characters with the same voice actors fro…
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Leon is so hot! He's one of the fictional characters that i really have a crush on!
Story = 7 - Is nothing new, T-Virus spreads, Leon goes in, kicks some zombie ass with the help of Claire. Cleon 4lyf!
Art = 9 - CGI and motion capture is an amazing thing, it's so life like that it feels like everyone there is a real person. AND THAT DODGE/PARKOUR SCENE! Leon is so cool...
Sound = 8 - because the Resident Evil is a horror game, so the BGM is creepy and scary, not that scary but, it can surprise you at times.
Characters = 9
Leon Scott Kennedy - my husband! I wouldn't mind having a hundred of his babies. This is after RE4 because, Leon is working as an Agent for the White House, whatever personality he had at RE4 ,he loses it because, he is very serious here. After working with Ashley, w…
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The show has pretty much the same feeling as the video games. They have us slipping between different characters, making all three of them feel like the main character. They also have Claire in her always pretty looking; somehow, she never seems to get dirty even when a plain crashes about a foot away blowing up almost everything. It has everything we need from a horror movie, guns, zombies, tention, and a bit of Romance.
I want to say one thing about one of the characters, I cannot STAND Senator Ron Davis. He’s a jackass and buts into everything. They did a really good job in making look as stuck up and snobby as most fat politicians (no offence to those in that department). I do have one problem with him and that is that I think I have seen him somewhere else and it wasn’t in the Resid…
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Honestly what has the resident evil movie franchise become? We must ask ourselves was Retribution really what we all wanted, I didn't have as much killing as the other resident evil movies, it didn't have much of a plot except escape the base, and it was mostly a setup movie for the next one I mean even though I left satisfied just based on that last pan out to see a horde of mutated monsters attacking a fortress of the capitol building, put a smile on my face as I left the theater.
This particular release of CG resident evil follows one of our beloved heroes Leon S. Kennedy, who well is plain awesome.
Story 8/10
This particular installment is a not one, not two, but three part plot, so it has depth, originality though is somewhat lacking in a way that you know what is gonna happen, but…
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Resident Evil comes full circle in this animated movie. Starting off in the calm before the storm soon a T virus outbreak causes panic and chaos and returning cast characters Leon S Kennedy and Jill Valentine are the only thing to stop them.The story follows a bio terrorist plot to stop the outbreak of a new strain of T Virus.
The whole film is CGI and beautifully motion captured they do a really great job of the whole cinematic experience.The voice cast and sound effects are done well and accompanied by a gripping sound track and score.
This is really what resident evil is all about and they do it well. This is a great action film with amazing production value and i really cant describe it much better than amazing. Straight 10s across the board, being a huge fan of resident evil i enjoy…
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To me it wasn't that good, I mean finally getting a resident evil (Biohazard) movie, that was animated in 3d was kinda like a dream of 3 not so good adaptations to the game.
This movie had some of the characters, and the graphics weren't bad, but the story could have had abit more. I felt it was lacking something solid, and more extreme, I mean it just seemed to me, there wasn't enough character development, and it felt rushed in a sense, and was kinda too short.
But that might be because I am not a real fan of resident evil.
Overall the action was decent, and I didn't feel like it was a waste of time. So it is worth watching even if it is to admire the graphical engineering of the movie.
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Being a Resident Evil Fan for a long time now, I had high expectations for this film. I had already seen the trailer and pictures from the upcoming CGI film and to me they looked really outstanding. After seeing the film, I was lost for words. I found myself sitting on the edge of my sofa starring at the TV screen, blanking my surroundings out. Along the storyline I was able to clearly understand the characters stance aswell as there basis to why they were acutally part of the film.
The voice actors including "Paul Mercier" as "Leon S Kennedy" were all kept the same from pervious Resident Evil titles which I felt worked especially well.
I wasn't at all disapointed with this film, but I can't speak for everyone else as its my opinion alone. I'm so glad this film was made. It was a fantast…
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When I say the teaser trailer for this movie a year or so ago, I nearly crapped by pants in anticipation. I grew up with the video game series and I remember long, dark nights of sitting in front of my TV with my Playstation running Resident Evil 1. This is, as I stated in my About Me section, my favorite video game franchise. After Screen Gems took a huge runny dump over the series with the 3 live action movies, I was begging God for a CGI movie. Square Enix did it with Final Fantasy VII so why couldn't Capcom do it with RE? Well thank God they did. I bought this movie on it's release day and I must say, it more then lived up to my expectations. It made me forget about the 3 live action abominations and for once, it felt like I was watching the games come to life. The story centers around…
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The first Biohazard movie done in 3D. I'm not terribly impressed by the animation but it's still well done. I didn't really feel anything from the characters though. I thought Leon and Claire were the couple, especially when she mentioned her boyfriend in the start of the movie. Turns out they paired Leon with the cop in the end. Just didn't feel right about that. The backstory of the cop and her brother seemed a little bit forced too. It's hard for me to imagine that someone would turn himselve into a monster just to reveal a government conspiracy. I also think that the story would be better if everything happened in one place instead of going from the airport to the research center, for example just focus on how they get out of the airport. I actually did feel the horror elements in the…
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Finally a great Resident Evil movie, it's about time.
I saw this in the video store and decided to check it out. I've waited so long for a good Resident Evil movie. The first one was decent but nothing special. The second was really bad, and the third could have been good but ended up being terrible.
It wasn't until Capcom decided to make their own movie, animated through CGI that we got a good RE movie. The story is a hell of a lot better than the life action movie following some terrorist releasing the T-Virus, and corporate espionage.
The main characters are Leon and Claire from Resident Evil 2. The are clearly brought to life through CGI. Along with other great characters you end up caring for. The voice acting is really well done, a excellent job.
The CGI is breathtaking and is tr…
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I'm a big Resident Evil fan (loved all the games) and so was looking forward to Degeneration. But it was quite disappointing. While the CG art was decent (the characters looked great), the story was uninspired and character development was somewhat rushed.
Flashbacks didn't flesh out each character's identity in full and there was needless development of a romantic possibility between two characters.
To put it in a few words to encapsulate how I felt about it: Degeneration is nothing more than a series of gameplay cut scenes stitched together in a way which wasn't fulfilling enough.
Should you watch it if you're a Resident Evil fan? Why not? You won't hate it but I doubt you'll find it a masterpiece as well. Should you watch if you're new to Resident Evil? I would say.. only if you ha…
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I'm a huge Resident Evil fan, and I've been waiting for Capcom to jump into the film business for a long time. That said, this movie really feels more like a long trailer for the upcoming RE:5 than an actual movie. The story's basically the same thing as most of the games: two characters, Leon and Claire, are propelled through a series of action packed gunfights with zombies and all sorts of twisted T and G virus mutants. While some of the earlier fight scenes are nice, the latter half of the movie has a dreadful amount of drama in it. I watched the dub, which was just horrid. Besides the fact that the lip synching was really off, which I kind of expect when it comes to CGI anime, the faces weren't able to hold a wide range of features, and that makes all the characters look like dolls whe…
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well...the story was ok..i kinda looked up to this cg movie..i can't say i'm THAT pleased with it..but i'm not disappointed either...animation was great and the soundtrack pretty nice..i give a 10 for action scenes...ok..in other terms..i'd really love a dmc cg movie..xD pls capcom!
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"A perfectly realistic story on bio-terrorism."
Biohazard: Degeneration (aka Resident Evil: Degeneration) is the first full length CG animated film fully based upon the Resident Evil game series. Starring the hero (Leon S. Kennedy) and heroine (Claire Redfield) of Resident Evil 2 (for Play Station), Degeneration is a film much anticipated by fans. Please note that the live movie trilogy is unrelated to the games beside the borrowed character names and the fate of Raccoon City.
Story:
There are quite a bit of background story to understand if one wish to fully understand the movie. Taking place seven years after the events in Resident Evil 2 (one year after the event in Resident Evil 4), the demands to reveal the truth of what happened at Raccoon City continues to heat up and an extremist…
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Well im not gonna give this movie a review straight tens. nothing's that perfect >_>, but im not gonna slaughter is and give it 1-2's, ive seen far worse.
Lets start off with the Story, zombies roaming around? leon and claire kicking some ass? include a new character here and there and bring back the favourite bosses from resident evil 2. There you have it 1 movie ready to go.
Although it wasn't a brilliant piece with the story, it was acceptable, going with the trend of main character leon rampaging through zombies with abit if bullet-time motion wasn't bad at all. i admit, this was'nt the masterpiece that obviosuly some people expected, but it was a valid sequel to the games. world is on the verge of crisis, and you have the main characters defeat bosses, and whole horde of zombies. wo…
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=-= Biohazard : Degeneration =-=
Story : 2/10
Dude...this movie was the most cliche thing I have ever seen in my entire nearly-sixteen-years-long life.
When I heard that a full Resident Evil movie was to come out a few months ago, I was kinda hyped. But, after watching this...thing... I have to say that I am mega-disappointed.
The story started rather nice, but after about half an hour it got very very lame. Lots of uber-predictable and silly scenes like, for instance the water-kissing scene or the matrix bullet-time.Not to mention how the picture with Angela's family popped up 2 times in the perfect place, right on time to trigger a lame dramatic bulls**t scene.
Everything just sucked. If you don't believe me, just watch the movie. You'll understand.
I mean, I'd rather watch a bad Loren…
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