Paul W. S. Anderson just felt the cold backhand of Makoto Kamiya across his retarded hack face.
Welcome to Resident Evil: Degeneration, a CG-animated movie set in the game series timeline. A cast of newbies and some familiar faces hand out excess stock of undead asswhuppings, including the pseudo-metro ultimate badass who took down the Los Illuminados, Leon S. Kennedy.
The story involves old chums Leon and Claire Redfield meeting up in the middle of a T-Virus outbreak. If you're unfamiliar with the series, this is bad—very bad. Leon kicks a bunch of ass and rescues Claire and some other chumps, then proceeds to kick exponentially more ass for the remainder of the 70 minute feature. By the time the movie's over, he's literally pierced an eye bigger than his own torso with a hunting knife, daringly outun an exploding hell and landing in mid-underwater makeout, and swung on a fraggin' spiraling steel walkway, holding onto a girl he met only hours before and landing on top of her. In short, there is no greater badass in gaming, period.
By the way, the story is pretty screwy. There are a dozen tactical plot holes (such as why they have to go through the airport lobby in the rescue mission to begin with when the roof is still accessible), but it's all in the name of fun, and the action movie direction really makes it feel like a live action movie at times. Camera angles are intuitive and editing is top-notch, but what you're really here for is zombies.
Oh, the zombies.
Yeah, I'd say it's impossible to say upon first viewing just how many zed-heads Leon caps in the flick, but it's the four-sequence-long fight with the big daddy boss that wins him that coveted "Chev Chelios Seal of Ballsrockery," and boy does he ever earn it.
The animation in the film is pretty friggin' sweet. While there is that unfortunate loss of human-like eyes that comes with this kind of animation, overall the motion capturing is great, and the direction, like I said, is way above what you might expect.
The DVD is out, the Blu-ray is out, it's not all that expensive, get to it.
"Resident Evil: Degeneration" is on sale December 27, 2008 and is rated R. Action, Animation, Horror. Directed by Makoto Kamiya. Written by Shotaru Suga. Starring Alyson Court, Laura Bailey, Paul Mercier, Steve Blum.
