The Synopsis:
Seven years since the Raccoon City incident, Claire Redfield is now a member of Terrasave, an organization which handles search and rescue at chemical and biological attacks. Claire arrives at Harvardville Airport to meet a friend.
A passenger aeroplane is approaching the airport to land. As one of the attendants checks the passengers, she notices one man looking unwell. The man in question is clearly in the final stages of T-virus infection, and warns the attendant. Shortly after, he zombifies.
Claire is looking after her friend’s niece, Rani Chawla, when they see Senator Ron Davis walk by. While a zombie-masked protester is arrested by a police officer, another “zombie” comes along.The officer walks behind it to pull the mask off, but it is not a mask. He is bitten by the zombie. One of Davis’ bodyguards shoots it.
While surprised that the creature gets back up, he is attacked by the security guard, whom he thought was dead. The second guard attempts to run but is also devoured. The scene causes massive panic and people in the vicinity flee, some being attacked by more zombies. The airport tannoy warns the civilians to evacuate.
The plane crashes into the building. Although killing several zombies, the door opens to reveal the occupants of the plane have turned into zombies. Claire, Davis and Rani hide. Night-time, the airport has been locked down by Marines and the survivors evacuated for treatment one at a time, many still locked inside the airport.
Two Special Response Team (SRT) members are joined by a government agent with experience of such incidents, Leon S. Kennedy. The group enters the building through the roof and begin their search.
The Review:
The overarching story of the RE saga hasn't ever been exactly simple, so don't expect a straightforward, shoot-'em-up zombie flick. Rather, prepare yourself for shadowy characters, three – count 'em, three – mysterious companies, a bio-terrorist, a few politicians, a T-Virus, a G-Virus and, of course, a massive conspiracy hinted at, but not quite unveiled, by the closing credits.
Just where and how and it'll fall into the series' rather extensive cannon is yet to be determined, but it certainly doesn't shy away from its roots in the interest of being self-sustained.
Make no mistake, however, the Resident Evil: Degeneration movie is as much of a game as the games are movies. It looks and feels like a 90-minute cut scene – from the scripting to the character models – with a scene structure that leads from environment-to-environment, like stages in any of the numerous videogames.
Which isn't to say that the movie is bad – it's not – just that it lacks a clear identity or voice, and the absence of any real scares in lieu of atmosphere and action make the player want to pick up a controller more than sit passively through a story that simply isn't up to cinematic par.
There isn’t much character development in the movie especially when it comes to Clair and Leon. The two main characters have already been well developed and fleshed out through out the course of the games.
There is some character development or the supporting characters like Angela. They hint at some romance between Leon and Angela, but luckily they did not expand on it, since it did not fit in with the overall feel of the movie.
A really good solid attempt at making a movie based of the game franchise, and might I add a hell of a lot better than Hollywood’s last couple of sad attempts at making a Resident Evil movie. But having said that if you are not a fan of the franchise I recommend staying far away as possible from this movie.
Because without the historical background that the games provide, then the movie plot will seem shallow and superficial at best. But if you are a Resident Evil fan then this will surely have you entertained from start to finish.
I gave this movie 4 star out of 5.
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