The Ugly: There's really only one thing that bothered me throughout the film and that's the treatment of Rebecca Chambers. Image via Capcom, Marza Animation Planet, Kadokawa And folks who are bothered by details such as bullet count (which fluctuates wildly throughout the film) and gaping plot holes will almost certainly find themselves a bit irritated here. Even though fantastically shot action sequences establish the villain's backstory and ultimate plan, heavy-handed exposition lays out the finer points of the plot again and again, hammering them into audiences as if their minds were as slow as the undead themselves. The writing, however, almost takes you out of the experience. There's the occasional noodle-arm fighter wailing on an opponent, or a body-slamming zombie who comes screaming in from off-screen, or a lack of sync in dialogue, but the animation is mostly solid. This is a beautifully animated film when allowing the camera to pan slowly across a setting or when characters are having a quiet discussion, and it's kinetic and frenzied during appropriate, highly choreographed fighting sequences, but there are moments of unintentional hilarity scattered throughout. The Bad: While the action is superlative, the animation doesn't always keep up with it. Other highlights include the film's solid voice-acting, endless hordes of the undead, and delightfully twisted villain in Glenn Arias. Oh, and the battle against the final villain features a spectacular weapon and its unintentionally devastating effects. One of the best sequences in the entire film involves Leon riding his Ducati through the streets of New York City to lead a pack of zombified dogs to their deaths it's one of the more ridiculous but highly entertaining things you'll ever see. Action director Kensuke Sonomura outdoes himself in this movie by bringing some epic, live-action fighting/shooting choreography to the animated realm the movie's worth a watch for these sequences themselves. I particularly liked the attention to detail for both Chris and Leon's fighting skills Chris favors an assault rifle and combat knife, using his size and strength to fight his way out of close combat situations, while Leon prefers a pair of dueling pistols and a more fluid, flowing style of fighting. The Good: The action in Resident Evil: Vendetta is top-notch, jaw-dropping at times. The good news is that Chris and Leon get to show off some fantastic driving skills and fighting techniques for the rest of the film while grotesque baddies pour out of the woodwork the bad news is that Rebecca is more or less resigned to being a damsel in distress for the remainder of the piece, including an ultimate confrontation between our heroes and villains. Once Leon gets pulled back into the fight against his will, the action really takes off. The missing piece of their puzzle rests with Leon Kennedy, who is now a haunted and hesitant shell of his former self, played quite well by Mercer. These characters were used just enough throughout the film to satisfy a viewer's curiosity, though I wouldn't have been upset to see a little more from them.Įssentially, super-agent Chris Redfield enlists the help of big-brain Rebecca Chambers, a professor who has been studying recent viral outbreaks and thinks she has found a vaccine and cure for the manufactured disease. He's so badass, in fact, that it takes three heroes to equal his villainy, though Arias is helped out on occasion by two henchmen: a nearly silent yet deadly assassin lady in a skin-tight, black jumpsuit and a hulking monstrosity that's more metal than man. He has a good reason and he's a great villain throughout, but his story's twists and turns are some of the best WTF moments in the film that deserve to be discovered unspoiled. after a brief aside that explains just why Arias is so pissed off at everyone to begin with. From there, Resident Evil: Vendetta gets more into the main story.
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