Resident Evil: Degeneration
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Resident Evil: Degeneration |
| Original title | バ イ オ ハ ザ ー ド ： デ ィ ジ ェ ネ レ ー シ ョ ン (biohazard: degeneration) |
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| Country of production | Japan |
| original language | japanese , english |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Makoto Kamiya |
| script | Shotaro Suga |
| production |
Jun Takeuchi , Hiroyuki Kobayashi , Hidenori Ueki |
| music | Tetsuya Takahashi |
Resident Evil: Degeneration ( Japanese バ イ オ ハ ザ ー ド ： デ ィ ジ ェ ネ レ ー シ ョ ン , Baiohazādo: Dijenerēshon for Biohazard: Degeneration ) is the first computer-animated film based on Capcom's video game series Resident Evil . It was produced by Capcom and Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan .
Unlike the previous real film series , Degeneration takes place in the same universe as the video game series. The protagonists are Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield . The film premiered in Japan on October 11, 2008 at the Tokyo Game Show and opened across Japan a week later on October 18. The DVD and Blu-ray Disc for the film were released on December 26, 2008 in Japan and on December 27, 2008 in North America . The film was released in Germany on February 5, 2009. The distribution version was released in German video stores on January 8, 2009 .
In 2012 the sequel Resident Evil: Damnation was released .
action
Seven years after the events of Racoon City, a pharmaceutical company called WilPharma is trying to develop an antidote to the T virus in Harvardville.
However, they do not succeed in doing this without massive protests from the city's citizens, who think that the T-virus is being grown there. Claire Redfield now works for a non-governmental organization that combats WilPharma, as she blames the company for human experiments in India. At Harvardville Airport, Claire meets another NGO employee and her niece Rani. At the same time, an apparently infected passenger is on board one of the aircraft. While Rani's aunt fetches the car, Claire Redfield takes care of her. Meanwhile, a senator who works as a consultant for WilPharma is supposed to be taken out of the airport terminal unnoticed. However, Rani recognizes him. When this is stopped, a protester disguised as a zombie appears, who stumbles towards Senator Ron Davis until Claire stops him. A few moments later, a real infected person stumbles towards the senator in the airport terminal, a police officer wants to arrest him. However, it is bitten and also mutates. Shortly afterwards, the plane in which the infected person was sitting crashes into the terminal. As a result of the accident, the aircraft door opens and infected people fall out of the plane. Claire watches in disbelief as chaos breaks out in the airport when the infected begin to attack the people present. Claire is jostled in the crowd by Curtis Miller, a protester who lost his wife and child in the Racoon City disaster. He has been arrested several times for violent protests against WilPharma.
After this disaster, a large area of the airfield is cordoned off and a crisis team set up to clarify the situation. Due to the rapid spread of the infection, Claire, the Senator, Rani and one other person barricade themselves in the airport's VIP room. Shortly afterwards, Leon S. Kennedy arrives at the airport. He was sent by the President to help the Army rescue the encircled survivors and keep the zombies at bay.
Leon lands with a helicopter and the soldiers Angela Miller and Greg Glenn on the roof of the airport to fight their way through to the survivors. After a few incidents, the three reach the trapped. Leon's plan is to exit the airport directly through the lobby. Although this is where most of the zombies are, there is more space to keep an eye on the undead, avoid them, and fight them. On the way to the lobby Greg is bitten by one of the undead. He stays behind to buy the others more time.
After the survivors leave the airport, the army clears it.
Once in the quarantine zone, several WilPharma delivery vans drive up, which makes Claire angry. She sees WilPharma as an irresponsible corporation, as Umbrella was. She meets Frederic Downing again, whom she met earlier at the airport, and learns from Senator Davis that Downing is WilPharma's best scientist and that he was involved in developing a vaccine against the T virus. Downing explains that the trucks only loaded this vaccine. In response to the outbreak, the entire supply was brought to the airport. More vaccines would have existed for a long time if Claire and her organization had not been hampering WilPharma for months.
Shortly afterwards there is an explosion. There was an attack on WilPharma vans, which destroyed all of the vaccine.
It is clear to the Senator that only one person can be responsible for the attack: Curtis Miller. It turns out that Curtis is Angela's brother. She drives with Leon to her brother's house to get to the bottom of it. Claire is meanwhile going to WilPharma with Downing to get the formula for the vaccine safe from the terrorists.
After arriving at Downing's office, after a phone call with Senator Claire, he shows a picture of the G-Virus that WilPharma obtained on the black market. The group also wants to develop a vaccine against this virus. Claire recalls the incidents in Racoon City and the G-Virus outbreak there. The G virus is a lot more aggressive and dangerous than the T virus. Downing leaves the room to investigate a server failure. Shortly thereafter, Leon calls Claire to tell her that Angela's brother's house has burned down and there is no trace of him. During the call, the office phone rings. Claire answers the call; it is Downing who claims he saw a stranger and found a bomb.
Claire sees Curtis running into the courtyard of the building with a suitcase, whereupon the bomb explodes and the security system is activated.
Leon and Angela arrive a short time later in the WilPharma building. Angela finds her brother in the courtyard, who has already injected himself with the G virus. He mutates and turns into a tyrant. Soldiers storm the room and open fire on Curtis.
A fight begins in which the soldiers lose their lives.
The interior of the WilPharma building consists of five separate modules (sector 0–4), which are arranged in a circle around the inner courtyard. In response to the outbreak of the G virus, the courtyard is first fogged with ethanol and set on fire. Then the floor of the courtyard falls into a huge shaft. Angela, Leon and Curtis escape this mechanism by escaping to one of the sector modules. In the meantime, the second level of the security system is activated. The sectors are also dropped into the shaft one at a time. When the last sector crashes, Leon manages to hook his legs on a railing and catch Angela. Curtis falls with the last sector in the depth, but he manages to hold on to a cable. He wraps a tentacle around Angela's leg and pulls on her. Leon can get Curtis to let go with an aimed headshot.
The sectors have already been burned down in the combustion chamber. A huge roller of fire races down the shaft, but at the last moment a bulkhead closes. The flames do not reach Leon and Angela. Claire, who has been observing everything from a control room, discovers that the whole incident has been recorded, but by whom and why she cannot determine.
When Senator Davis arrives at WilPharma and is confronted by Claire with what happened, it turns out that Downing is probably still alive. He plans to sell samples of the G and T viruses, as well as the vaccine and its formula, to a terrorist dictator. Claire, Leon, and Angela track Downing outside town and secure the samples.
In the following scene you can see Senator Davis's office, his phone rings, but he doesn't answer. His hand falls from the back of his chair and hangs lifeless. Data related to WilPharma and TriCell is automatically destroyed on his computer.
At the end you can see workers from the TriCell company recovering samples from the ruins of the WilPharma building. Tricell is a pharmaceutical company that appears again in the game Resident Evil 5. Serial villain Albert Wesker has his fingers in the game there.
Voice actor
| role | German speaker | American speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Leon S. Kennedy | Oliver Mink | Paul Mercier |
| Claire Redfield | Julia Haacke | Alyson Court |
| Ron Davis | Thomas Albus | Michael Sorich |
| Frederic Downing | Johannes Raspe | Crispin Freeman |
| Curtis Miller | Ole Pfennig | Roger Craig Smith |
| Angela Miller | Kathrin Gaube | Laura Bailey |
| Greg Glenn | Tobias Lelle | Steve Blum |
| Ingrid Hunnigan | Veronika Neugebauer | Salli Saffioti |
| reporter | ||
| Rani Chawla | Geraldine Haacke-Guillaume | Michelle Ruff |
| Passenger | Dirk Meyer | |
| stewardess | Claudia Lössl |
Reviews
"An action-packed CGI spectacle that, despite considerable animatory deficiencies in the figure drawing, definitely entertains friends of the game."
continuation
On September 27, 2012, the sequel Resident Evil: Damnation was published in Germany , which is located between the events of Resident Evil 5 and shortly before Resident Evil 6 . This is also an animated film that was made with the same team as the previous one. Capcom produced this sequel, Shōtarō Suga wrote the script again, and Makoto Kamiya re-directed. Unlike its predecessor, however, this film refers directly to the events in the following game, which is why Leon S. Kennedy is in the foreground here.
Web links
- Resident Evil: Degeneration in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ CAPCOM: Press Release 2007 ( Memento of the original from October 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Video RESIDENT EVIL DEGENERATION TRAILER - resident, evil, degeneration, trailer, movie - Dailymotion Share Your Videos
- ↑ Resident Evil: Degeneration makes World Wide Premier ( Memento of the original from November 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Resident Evil: Degeneration DVD / Blu-ray Specs
- ↑ Resident Evil: Degeneration. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
