We finally have a real Resident Evil movie! It only took seven tries! (That might not sound good, but by video game movie standards it?s sensational.) The five live-action Milla Jovovich movies were fantastic, but about the only thing they shared with the games was a title. The directors of those features focused on making great action movies for the mass market they knew didn't really care about the games. The CG-animated Resident Evil: Damnation is a great Resident Evil movie because it doesn?t care about the mass market; it?s so focused on the games and the gaming audience that it was released on the Xbox and PS3 dashboards a week before the DVD went on sale.
This is Capcom?s second attempt at computer-generating a proper canon film.�The first, Degeneration, was one of the worst movies ever made. �Degeneration was true to its subject in the way that a hastily written homework essay is true to its subject:�all the keywords are there but the author clearly didn?t care. The result is less exciting than a non-zombified corpse.
Damnation�is a huge improvement over its predecessor and a lot more fun, too. The movie doesn?t just understand the Resident Evil games, it understands the core problem that comes with making a movie based on a video game:�Take away our ability to control the characters and the characters have to give back much more in return. They�have to be interesting on their own.
Damnation delivers everything Resident Evil�game-franchise fans could want from a movie. The characters are much improved ? not just graphically, but behaviorally.
Fan-favorite Leon Kennedy isn?t just back, he?s graduated with a degree in advanced ass-kicking and has been promoted to Chief Buttkicker. No more pining after Ada Wong, shouting impotently…
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