History YMMV / ResidentEvilDegeneration

* SoOkayItsAverage: While it lacks the trying-''way''-too-hard, RuleOfCool energy of the live-action films and is canon with the games' continuity, the weak plot, clumsy dialogue and bland new characters all work against the movie. Overall, it feels like an especially long cutscene from the games, which is pretty much what a faithful ''Resident Evil'' movie should be, but [[DamnedByFaintPraise that's not exactly the highest praise you can give to a film]].

* AcceptableTargets: The team has to rescue an overweight, white, balding, {{Jerkass}} senator with questionable connections to big business. [[spoiler:And he's innocent. Well, maybe not of the insider trading, but of the "releasing the T-virus" bit. He's still an AssholeVictim, though.]]

* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler:[[CorruptCorporateExecutive Dr. Frederic Downing]], a member of [=WilPharma=],]] is the [[BigBad one behind]] the events of the movie. Previously a [[MadScientist scientist]] for Umbrella Corps who stole samples of the t and G-viruses before Raccoon City's annihilation, he planned to sell them and a vaccine through the black market as controllable, profitable bioweapons, later unleashing them on various countries as a way to pitch them to potential buyers. Finding a buyer in the form of General Miguel Grandé, he unleashed the t-virus onto Harvardville Airport that resulted in a zombie outbreak, blew up several vaccine trucks to disguise the incident as a terrorist attack, blew up a [=WilPharma=] building to kill Claire Redfield, and injected Curtis Miller with the G-virus, all as a way to create a pitch video for Grandé.

* SignatureScene: Leon using his parkour skills to traverse through a section that is about to descend into a chasm. in the climax of the film.

* SpecialEffectsFailure: While the rest of the movie is ''gorgeous'' to look at, with s mention going to G-Curtis, the facial animations for the human cast are of somewhat poorer quality. With copious amounts of DullSurprise from most of the cast, the ''zombies'' seem to emote more than the living cast.

* SpecialEffectsFailure: While the rest of the movie is ''gorgeous'' to look at, with Special mention going to G-Curtis, The facial animations for the human cast is somewhat poorer quality, with copious amounts of DullSurprise from most of the cast, the ''zombies'' seem to emote more than the living cast.

* AcceptableTargets: The team has to rescue an overweight, white, balding, {{jerkass}} senator with questionable connections to big business. [[spoiler:And he's innocent. Well, maybe not of the insider trading, but of the "releasing the T-virus" bit. He's still an Asshole Victim though.]]

* HarsherInHindsight: In this movie, Curtis briefly regains control of himself as a G monster because he did not want to hurt Angela. This apparently led to William Birkin unable to stop himself from killing his own wife and impregnating his only daughter with the G embryo because ''he was conscious the whole time and was unable to do anything about it''.

** Laura Bailey would go on to play [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil6 another]] of Leon's partners, who was also a law enforcement officer and whose sibling succumbed to the virus.
** Roger Craig Smith, the VA to play Curtis, Angela's older brother and the main antagonist of the film, would later go on to play Chris Redfield, Claire's older brother and a main protagonist, one year later in VideoGame/ResidentEvil5.
** The movie revealed that ever since the end of VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica, Claire began working with a human rights group called Terra Save. Come 2018, an [[Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom installment to another popular franchise would feature another Claire working with a similar group, only this one being focused on dinosaurs]].

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Curtis seems to be intended by the writers to be sympathetic, with his tragic backstory and the claims that he was "used". But his method of averting another tragedy like his own are to CAUSE more tragedies like his own, resulting in the deaths of many, many innocent people. It makes him seem incredibly stupid at best and outright evil at worst.

* DamselScrappy: Angela. She even mentions an incident where she impulsively dove into a river to save a child, resulting in three of her teammates getting injured when they had to save her.

* UncannyValley: Though the animation is pretty alright, there are occassions where the l

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* WTHCostumingDepartment: Angela spends [[spoiler:the epilogue]] in a rather hideous polka-dotted purple dress.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qwmDnCKYzM "Guilty"]], the ending theme by Anna Tsuchiya. Incidentally, she also did the ending theme for ''Anime/ResidentEvilDamnation''.

* TheScrappy: Senator Ron Davis is a most likely intentional example. A complete {{jerkass}} who only cares for himself, works for the morally dubious [=WilPharma=], is a complete [[TheLoad load]], hates children and, most annoyingly of all, [[spoiler: is completely innocent and survives the zombie outbreak.]] There's a reason why Claire slapping him is considered a CrowningMomentOfAwesome.