Line #4 YMMV/ResidentEvilVendetta


1	* CriticalDissonance: Critics gave the movie low scores. Some fans, however, consider it to be one of the better non-interactive ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' media.
2	* EvenBetterSequel: Even if the action goes a bit too over the top, the script and voice acting are a step up from ''Damnation'', which was itself an improvement over ''Degeneration''.
3	* FightSceneFailure: The infamous GunKata duel betwen Chris and Arias highlights just what can go wrong when choreographing a fight in the style. Close-range gun-kata is typically at its most plausible and cool-looking when the opponents are ''really'' close-up, trading blows and disarms as they prevent the opposition from firing their gun. This is not that scene -- the two here are apart enough to fire at each other with impunity, so the tension is instead upheld by them [[ATeamFiring blatantly missing each other for a full minute]], attempting to sell their basic tuck-and-rolls as dodging but instead making it look like they can't hit the broad side of a barn from 10 feet ''at the most'' (at one point with the two circling each other while firing at ''the ground'' rather than each other). Even when they do end up in the typical [[GunStruggle close-range grappling match]], they both each manage to get a few free shots and ''still'' aim towards thin air. The fact [[BottomlessMagazines nobody reloads their pistol despite firing nonstop]] only heightens just how ridiculously prolonged and [[{{Narm}} farcical]] the entire exchange is.
4	* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoment: Chris' team fawning over Rebecca because of her intelligence and coming up with a cure for the virus, then Chris realizes they're not discussing ''Series/BreakingBad'' for once. [[TemptingFate Guess where the discussion leads.]]
5	* HilariousInHindsight: At one point the characters mention ''Series/BreakingBad''. [[VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage The games would eventually introduce a character named Heisenberg]], which was also the name of Walt's alias.
6	* InferredHolocaust:
7	** Leon [[DestructiveSaviour causes multiple civilian casualties]] during the Cerberus chase scene, by tossing live grenades onto the freeway. Not once does he hesitate, or bother to see if any of them survived, nor does he show any remorse. Instead, he's shown smiling as if he's having the time of his life.
8	** Nadia tries to snipe [[spoiler: Arias]] with a rail gun so powerful that it completely destroys a row of perfectly operational and apparently non-infected buildings. It leaves a deep wound in his shoulder and kills Diego, but fails to kill Arias.
9	** Given that many of the secondary infectees would have been turned into zombies by fatal wounds, [[spoiler:the heroes providing an antidote for the virus would mean many victims would drop dead from their injuries.]]
10	** There's one freshly-turned zombie we see [[spoiler:snacking on her boyfriend. How many cured victims returned to their senses over the ''horrifically'' nightmarish situation of eating their own dead loved ones?]] Even worse, [[spoiler:what about the flesh they consumed [[ImAHumanitarian still being inside their body?]]]]
11	* MemeticBadass:
12	** Even though he's a badass already, fans are already calling Leon the most overpowered character in ''Resident Evil'' by taking multiple buildings with a single bullet.[[note]]Sadly a case of [[NeverTrustATrailer lying trailer]]; the shot seen is from a rail gun fired by a BSAA agent at Arias while fighting Leon.[[/note]]
13	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1MCpJdMXMQ This clip]] has already entered MemeticMutation territory by virtue of Leon fighting like Franchise/JohnWick.
14	* {{Narm}}:
15	** When Chris is trying to describe Glenn Arias, the way he says "merchant of death" makes it sound like he's trying too hard to make him sound like TheDreaded.
16	** One uncharacteristically well-coordinated zombie tries to tackle Leon with the technique of a football player sacking a quarterback.
17	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzFhZ5hrTqY A gun fight between Arias and Chris plays out into this full force;]] the series' vaguely realistic portrayal of shootouts is replaced by the two trying to beat the crap out of eachother while simultaneously shooting their pistols with BottomlessMagazines at close-range. It's evidently trying to be an awesome GunFu fight, but their inability to actually shoot each other and the showy-bordering-on-wacky moves they perform -- such as Arias rolling like a barrel towards Chris, or the two running in a circle while missing shots at each others' feet -- makes them look inept, and the scene at large downright comical.
18	--->'''Website/YouTube Commentor:''' When the two worst players are the last ones alive...
19	** Arias is ultimately killed by [[DisneyVillainDeath falling down an elevator shaft of a tall building]]. All well and good... except when he hits the floor, [[LudicrousGibs he produces an implausibly large splatter of viscera]], making it look like an extremely bloody version of a [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Wile E. Coyote]] gag more than anything trying to be serious.
20	** The bombing of Arias' wedding. He takes a missile to the face and survives with a few scratches, but everyone else is killed or mutilated.
21	** The out-of-nowhere moment that the characters gush over ''Series/BreakingBad'' on the helicopter. A humanizing moment that shows they have lives outside of their jobs, sure, but still feels enough like an EnforcedPlug that it comes off as silly.
22	** While Rebecca is trying to fight off the infection in her body, her various facial expressions make her look more constipated than in pain.
23	* SoBadItsGood:
24	** Cliched, over the top, and plain ridiculous at points, given the physics-defying action scenes. But it's never slow paced, providing a silly fast action popcorn-muncher that is fun to watch.
25	** The gunfight between Chris and Arias is completely nonsensical, but the actual choreography keeps it from being boring or a complete FightSceneFailure, and instead gives it some entertainment value.
26	* SignatureScene:
27	** Chris and Leon's GunFu fight against a horde of zombies in a hallway.
28	** Chris vs. Arias, because of how ridiculous the GunFu is even by the standards of the movie.
29	* SpecialEffectFailure:
30	** Being handed off to a different studio than the previous two CGI movies, there are bits with the animation and circumstances that don't quite look right. One example is when Diego ambushes the heroes at a diner with his [[GatlingGood gatling gun]], which tears the whole place apart and gores a waitress in the background (who goes flailing in an exaggerated motion-captured way). And yet despite the bullets tearing chunks out of the environment all over the place, Leon ducks behind a flimsy wooden table and you can practically see the tracers hitting next to his exposed hand, [[PlotArmor but he's perfectly safe and unharmed]] without even a single shake from the table.
31	** Character animation and continuity is also a bit wonk, as while the fight scenes with Leon and Chris versus a horde of zombies looks cool in motion, blatant MookChivalry comes into effect and the two jump around in their scenes almost haphazardly at points.
32	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: The highly-waited canonical return of Rebecca (which Capcom had promised for almost a decade) was this for many people due to her role in the film in which she gets kidnapped in the exact middle of the film and stays a captive for the rest of the movie until her rescue before the final battle. Many felt that her kidnapping diminished her role just to have the most popular franchise protagonist; Leon S. Kennedy, and experienced franchise protagonist; Chris Redfield, take the spotlight.
33	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot:
34	** Chronologically, the movie takes place sometime before the events of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil7Biohazard''. Unfortunately, it doesn't feature anything that bridges the two stories together, [[spoiler:meaning the reason why Chris is now working with Umbrella remains a mystery]]. Its DLC ''Not a Hero'' eventually reveals that [[spoiler: he was outsourced by Umbrella due to Eveline's activity in the area. Hence allowing Umbrella to even have a chance to fight off the Molded and Eveline]].
35	** Patricio begs Leon for help in rescuing his family from the surviving members of [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil4 the Los Illuminados cult]]. Whether it's a simple CallBack or a SequelHook isn't clear, but either way, it's never followed up on in the film.

Context YMMV / ResidentEvilVendetta