Ranking EVERY Resident Evil Movie From Worst To Best

5. Resident Evil: Degeneration

Resident Evil Movies
Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan

For Resident Evil's first, we venture back into the realm of CGI, since Degeneration surprisingly wasn't terrible. Coming out in 2005 after the forgotten Biohazard 4D Executor and the first two Alice films, this was Capcom taking what could've been a standard video game affair and making it work as essentially one long extended cut scene.

Claire Redfield and Leon S. Kennedy reunite for the first time since 1998, and not a lot has changed. Apart from them both growing old and now Leon being drafted as an agent for the United States government, they somehow both find themselves once again in the middle of a zombie outbreak.

The CGI holds up - even when the slow-motion action on screen is accompanied by some late 90s guitar solo to really ramp up the final moments of escape. These scenes really should be unwatchable, but Degeneration is leagues less cringeworthy than Damnation overall.

For the most part, this does just feel like a game plot that never made it to production and in some ways Resident Evil 2 again, but in a new setting. When we live in a world of the Alice saga, that isn't so much of a bad thing.

 
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