Resident Evil: Degeneration
Resident Evil
Degeneration
Director: Makoto Kamiya
Screenplay: Shôtarô Suga
Music: Tetsuya Takahashi
Character Design: Naoyuki Onda
Mechanical design: Takeshi Takakura
Sound director: Yota Tsuruoka
Cgi director: Atsushi Doi
Executive producer:
Haruhiro Tsujimoto
Keiji Inafune
Masao Takiyama
Hiroyuki Kobayashi
Taro Morishima
The CG movie is pretty true to the series, not sure about the latest games, which I haven’t played but, it fairs well. I was little disappointed that Umbrella mattered so little and two new companies took the central light. I think I would have preferred the movie to be more of a classic adaptation. I guess that’s the nostalgia from the first games talking.
The animation was pretty good and believable. Of course human faces and some movements are, as always, strange, it’s no Avatar but, actually pretty good in most stuff.
The film is divided in three parts. First, there’s the airport scene, which fits better into the game’s mood with claustrophobic environments, probably my favorite part. Then, in the second part, the plot thickens and we learn about Curtis and her sister. This part also slows down the pace quite a bit and it all concludes in the third part. Here, the mutated G-Virus creates an huge boss zombie monster, classic Resident Evil stuff.
Not much to say about the sound department although liked the credits song.
Really nice direction and photography.
It’s far from perfect, the script and execution have some faults but, overall it’s very entertaining and captures very well feel of the games. I think if you’re a fan of the games or just action oriented horror movies, you’ll most likely enjoy this movie. I would basically describe it as something similar to watching the whole cut scenes from one of the three first games joined together.
For anyone trying to better understand the whole Umbrella-T-Virus thing, here’s a nice article.
Not really worthy of a second view but, as I said, an entertaining movie that will certainly make you feel nostalgic about the games.
