Resident Evil: Degeneration

Biohazard: Degeneration (バイオハザード ディジェネレーション, Baiohazādo Dijenerēshon?), is the first full-length CG animation feature based upon the Resident Evil series of games. It was announced by Capcom and Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan on October 29, 2007.

Unlike the previous Resident Evil film trilogy, Degeneration is set within the same universe as the original video games taking place "7 years from Raccoon City". The teaser included with the Resident Evil: Extinction DVD and Blu-ray Disc confirmed the appearance of Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield. The film made its premier in Japan on October 11, 2008 at the Tokyo Game Show, and will be released nationwide one week later on October 18, before coming to DVD and Blu-ray in North America on December 27, 2008.

Plot


Seven years since the Raccoon City incident, Claire Redfield is now a member of a non-governmental organization which handles search and rescue of chemical and bioterrorist attacks. Claire arrives at Harvardville airport to meet with a friend.

Meanwhile, a passenger airplane is approaching the airport for landing. As one of the attendants checks the passengers, she notices one man is looking unwell. The man in question is clearly in the final stages of the deadly t-virus infection, and warns the attendant as such and it is an emergency. Shortly after, the infection claims his life and he zombifies.

Meanwhile, Claire is looking after her friend's niece Rani Chawla when they see Senator Ron Davis walk by. Rani pointing him out grabs the attention of a nearby news reporter. Whilst he is avoiding the reporter, he hears the sound of a Groan. A security guard goes behind the nuisance and pulls off a zombie mask, it is merely a trouble-causer.

Whilst being arrested by the officer, another "zombie" comes along. The officer again walks behind it to pull the mask off. But, it is not a mask. His neck is shredded by the zombie. One of Davis' bodyguards shoots it point-blank. Whilst he is surprised that the creature gets back up, he is attacked by the security guard, whom he thought was dead. Now having two zombies to worry about, the second guard attempts to run but is also devoured.

The scene causes massive panic and people in the vicinity flee, some being attacked by more zombies. The news reporter is killed whilst her back is turned and the airport voice-over warns the civilians to evacuate.

The plane crashes into the building. Although killing several zombies in its path, the door opens to reveal the entire population of the plane have turned into zombies.

Claire takes Davis and Rani away to hide.

Night-time, the airport has been locked down by Marines and the survivors evacuated for treatment one at a time, many still locked inside the airport.

Two Special Response Team (S.R.T.) members, Angela Miller and Greg Glenn are blessed with a government agent with experience on such incidents, Leon S. Kennedy a survivor of Raccoon City. The group enter the building through the roof and begin their search.

Leon keeps an eye on the team, who are untrained in handling the Zombies. Claire, meanwhile, is locked in a room with Davis, Rani and another woman. Upon hearing the gunshots, Claire arms her self with a red and white Umbrella.

Claire is saved by Leon from a Zombie and the two groups join up. They must get to the lobby to escape. The one thing is, it's full of Zombies.

As they head off, Greg Glenn is bitten by a Zombie and stays, determined to save the rest by killing the creatures nearby.

The survivors stand over the crashed plane for safety, with the S.R.T. members and Leon executing the Zombies near the exit.

As Davis tries to run to the exit he accidentally pushes Rani off, then he pulls a muscle. As Claire jumps down to save Rani, she is cornered by the Zombies. Leon too is unable to get a zombie off of him. He throws his spare handgun to her. Claire grabs it, kicking away a zombie at the same time and quickly kills the creatures. Leon too has killed the attacking zombie.

The survivors must go now or more will come. As Davis makes it out, his injured walk is mistaken for that of a Zombie. Only his shouting and waving arms give him away. After the remaining survivors get outside do the Marines head in.

Upon being told that the WilPharma Corporation, who she was campaigning against, was creating a t-virus vaccine, she realises that the vaccine could have saved those who instead died.

Suddenly, the WilPharma trucks containing the vaccine are destroyed. Claire goes with WilPharma worker Frederic Downing to the WilPharma research facility for more vaccine.

After a tour of the place, Claire is shown a Molecular-scale image of the G-virus. Upon remembering her encounter with William Birkin, Claire starts to feel scared. She is left alone in the room as Frederic heads for the sample.

Claire receives a phone call from Leon who, along with Angela Miller, discover Curtis Miller's house burnt to the ground. A phone for the room begins to ring, she picks it up to hear Frederic's voice. Frederic warns her that a man has just left the facility and that a time bomb has been activated. Claire looks out of a window and sees Curtis Miller running through the central gardens with a briefcase. The bomb suddenly goes off and Claire is injured as window glass cuts into her leg.

Leon and Angela arrive at the building, Leon goes upstairs to Claire whilst Angela monitors the ground level. Whilst Leon is upstairs, Curtis arrives at the garden again. Not having much time left, he tells Angela that the government covered up some of the events in Raccoon City which kept his family from being saved.

US Marines suddenly storm the room, their rifles aiming at Curtis, still believed to be a terrorist. Curtis is unable to hold on and begins to mutate from the G-virus. The Marines fire at him, to which the highly intelligent Curtis starts his extermination of the threat.

Leon saves Angela from the massacre as the garden begins to fall apart with wreckage crushing Curtis. Believing him to be dead, the surviving Marines head up the Elevator to safety, Leon and Angela choosing to stay downstairs for the elevator to come back down. Suddenly, Curtis gets out of the wreckage and mutates further. He climbs up the building, detaching the elevator and throwing it down, killing the marines inside.

Angela and Leon jump into a pool of water to avoid burning wreckage. Leon shoots the water tank window to escape drowning. The two then find themselves in an enormous underground area. Meanwhile, Claire makes it to the Command centre, doing whatever she can to halt a biohazard alarm. And open the building.

She fails and the detection of Curtis in the underground centre causes another alarm. This time, parts of the building will be ejected underground.

As Leon and Angela search for an escape route, Curtis attacks them, seeing Leon as a threat and Angela as a mate. Eventually, Curtis manages to regain control, telling Angela to run. As the sections are being ejected, Leon and Angela climb up wreckage. Almost free from the drop, Curtis grabs hold of Angela. About to fall, Leon shoots his Pistol into Curtis' face, he lets go and falls to his death.

Leon, Angela and Claire exit the building where Claire accuses senator Davis of the cover up and the Harvardville Airport incident. Leon reveals that he does not know anything.

Claire then realises that the real villain was actually Frederic, who caused the outbreak in the airport, the disaster on the plane, the destruction of the vaccine and the bioterrorism incidents through selling of t-virus samples.

Waiting for a contact to sell WilPharma information to, Frederic mistakes a car containing Leon and Claire for his contact. He is then arrested by Angela, whilst marines aim their rifles at him.

The next day, Leon and Claire say goodbye and leave each other again. Meanwhile, news gets out that Davis has reigned from office over Human rights allegations involving WilPharma. A Newspaper on Davis' desk reads "TRICELL OFFERS TO BUY WILPHARMA". Davis' hand falls from the desk revealing him to be dead. It seems somebody or Davis himself also gave his computer the command to delete all the protected files, from Umbrella, WilPharma and Tricell, from his computer.

Next we see some people in biohazard uniforms wih the Tricell logo on it recovering the remains of Curtis Miller.

Cast

 * Paul Mercier as Leon S. Kennedy
 * Alyson Court as Claire Redfield
 * Laura Bailey as Angela Miller
 * Steve Blum as Greg Glenn
 * Michelle Ruff as Rani Chawla
 * Michael Sorich as Senator Ron Davis
 * Crispin Freeman as Frederic Downing
 * Roger Craig Smith as Curtis Miller

DVD and Blu-Ray
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment have announced the Region 1 DVD and Blu-Ray release of Resident Evil: Degeneration on December 27th, 2008.

Video
1.78:1 Anamorphic Widescreen (DVD) and 1080P 1.78:1 Widescreen (Blu-ray)

Sound
English and Portuguese DD5.1 Surround; French, Spanish and Thai Dolby Surround (DVD) and English 5.1 Dolby True HD; French, Spanish, Portuguese and Thai DD5.1 Surround (Blu-ray)

Special Features
Features marked with the asterisk (*) are Blu-ray exclusive.


 * English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean and Thai subtitles
 * The Generation of DEGENERATION featurette
 * Character Profiles
 * Voice Bloopers
 * Faux Leon Interview
 * Resident Evil: Degeneration Trailers
 * Resident Evil: Degeneration Tokyo Game Show Trailer
 * Resident Evil 5 Special Footage
 * "BonusView" Interactive PiP: Viewers will have the ability to access one of three picture-in-picture streams at any point during the film (feature length animatics, motion capture and storyboard)*
 * Pop-Up Trivia Track*
 * BD-Live Enabled*