Review of Resident Evil: Degeneration

Unlike Milla Jovovich/Paul W.S. Anderson's Resident Evil trilogy, this animated movie is a continuation of the story line/mythology of the Resident Evil games. Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield (no love for Ada Wong) are featured.

The film provides enough background information to get anyone that hasn't played the games up to speed in the first ten minutes or so of the film, supplying 'oh yea!' moments for anyone that has played the games. It's a computer animated movie and while it's slick enough, the human characters do suffer a bit from the 'uncanny valley' problem. There's a good amount of action and zombie/monster violence, but not much in the way of blood and gore. Not that some people don't suffer from some pretty ugly deaths.

Sometimes I got the feeling that I was playing a video game (or at least watching cut-scenes). There were some moments where I felt like I should have been punching buttons on a game controller. I enjoyed those feelings, but I can see where some people might have issues. If you like the Resident Evil games, survival horror games or zombie movies it's worth picking up.

6/10