Resident Evil: Damnation (2012)

US secret agent Leon S. Kennedy infiltrates a former Soviet republic to confirm Bio Organic Weapons being used in their civil war. He ignores orders to retreat. He is attacked by monsters, captured by rebels and even battles giants.After a short exposition, the movie turns into an action thriller. It's almost non-stop. It's a fully computer animated movie. The trick of CGI is the expressiveness of the human faces. This suffers a little from dead-eye syndrome which is inferior to the facial work of the best modern motion capture. It makes the human characters less compelling than they should be. The lickers have great quickness and they are quite scary. The other creatures are not as great. The story is basically an excuse for the action. This is fine for the video game fans but it isn't that good as an actual movie.

Right I'm gonna be honest here and admit I lost the plot with Resi Evil along time ago. I had the very first original game and followed the plot easily. Since then the story has spiralled off in various directions and has morphed into something quite different from the original simple idea.Thusly I am completely unable to determine if this new CGI animated sequel is accurate or follows on from any part of the numerous videogames. Of course the bottom line is if you wanna see a good proper Resi Evil flick then this is what you watch, unlike the comicbook style live action films.Yes this film is bloody and violent with no holds barred on what you expect from the Resi Evil franchise. I'm confident any fans will get a kick outta this new offering with some great creature action, zombie action and your obligatory slow motion action sequences which show off the crisp CGI to the smallest pixel.For me...I didn't really like it. Why? because the plot is sooooo so unexplained, do you have to be a Resi Evil fanboy to get this? No reason for anything that happens or why, characters are dull and stereotypical plus it just feels like a long video game ingame sequence, but I guess that can't really be helped. I also found the CGI to be very very good on the human characters, especially facial close ups, but rather average on pretty much everything else! Lip syncing on speech is still somewhat lacking and looks a bit crappy.As for plot points, I didn't like the fact certain humans can now control the Bio-Organic Weapons through their mind via some kind of technological advancement. That advancement being an 'Alien 3' rip where by the Bio-Organic Weapon uses a human host to live in which creates a connection between the two, eh? I also didn't understand where all this BOW's came from either, this one guy controlled them and there seemed to be a never ending stream of the things...from nowhere.Other issues cropped up like the zombies going round stuffing these embryo type things down uninfected peoples throats. I guess they were the BOW embryo's that would enable humans to control them, but why would the zombies be doing that? who is controlling the zombies? oh my! Finally who or what on earth were these huge pale bald Mortal Kombat looking characters in the finale?? Just popped up from nowhere, virtually indestructible and looked like the alien space jockeys from 'Prometheus'. What really bugs me about Resi Evil now is the fact its become a kind of monster mash with no real suspense anymore. Its just a guns blazing, blood spilling, in your face monster brawl along the lines of Mortal Kombat, the original spooky horror element has faded away for pure adrenaline soaked action. I also feel the whole idea has been milked too much and the Umbrella company lost its mystery yonks ago.This is definitely the kind of Resi Evil film your looking for if your a fan but for uninitiated folk like myself it may seem a bit hectic and raise many questions. Questions like...what on Titan is going on here?!4/10

I just finished watching the movie, and I must say I am not a fan of the game series, because it went pretty downhill from Resident Evil 3, which was one hell of a scary game. I don't like this whole Leon character. I would've liked the animation more if it remained faithful not to the games but to the Resident Evil movies, especially the RE 1 and RE 2. It's Allis that I am after not Leon. I had never tried a 3D animation before. I must say it was way better than most 3D movies like the Amazing Spiderman, The Avenges, and many other 3D titles. Since I am not a fan, I only watched it for the 3D and I was pleasantly surprised. I just didn't see any pop-out effects, but the depth was impressive. The 3D was most noticeable during the time we got to see close-up shots of "Madam President" and the other girl. For an animation, it did contain some scenes which I suppose would be pretty gross to people who are not used to horror movies. Being a horror movie hound, I didn't mind it though. The fight scenes were very well done, and the details were simply amazing. I just thought the movie dragged a bit, but it's probably because I was not concerned with the story but with the 3D effects. All in all, it was satisfying and I would recommend it to the fans and to 3D lovers alike.

Loved it. The animation was superb, much better than the previous film. The story depart a bit from the original resident evil style, no zombies , but rather Lickers and some character from resident Evil 4 (the video game); however, sticks to the scene that a Resident Evil movie should be. Some people might not consider this a zombie movie but hey, are such thing as real zombies, is not a documentary that should be accurate is it's a movie and it's a fun movie with great action scenes, especially when the president lady fights Leon and Ada. The battle with the Nemesis was excellent. Excellent movie. Can't wait for another one. I highly recommended it.