20 Video Game Movie and TV Moments That INSULTED Fans

The animated Resident Evil films have as much to answer for as the live actioners. Sure, they got the aesthetic right, and they feature more of the games’ actual characters, but they consistently look and play like cutscenes from the games – moving between the bits that, in all honesty, most of us want to skip, to bits that we would rather just pick up a controller and play.

And Resident Evil: Vendetta, the third of the CG films, is no exception. We join BSAA agent Chris Redfield, former STARS member Professor Rebecca Chambers and DSO agent Leon Kennedy as they attempt to foil a plot to unleash an airborne viral attack on New York. The whole film looks bad, including a visually atrocious boss fight against the tyrant, but the gun-fu routine between Chris and villain Arias is something else - something that doesn't cohere with the vibe of the franchise at all.

The idea probably seemed great in the writer’s room: an action sequence that mixes balletic hand-to-hand combat and gunplay. The only problem is, in reality, bullets are a hell of a lot faster than people, and the on-screen results are silly at best. These are men moving at normal speed, firing off tens of round per second, and yet despite facing each other, they consistently hit nothing but air, dancing and rolling and running in circles for several minutes straight.