BIOHAZARD Degeneration is a video game cutscene. Honest to God thats all I thought looking at the film. Visually it has not aged gracefully at all. Some of the main characters like Rani look like they just walked out of Toy Story and I mean Toy Story 1 not 2 Claire has this constant thing where her lips are slightly parted in a way that makes me think shes desperate for Leon to make love to her Leon has grown even more BiSho since 4 Senator Ron Davis looks like a gremlin its a very weird looking film to say the least and its a shame that this is the most interesting part of the film. 2000https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/811111525729042453/834552962634350592/mpvshot0002.png This film just isnt all that engaging. I really like watching just Leon and Claire and their sparse interactions are some of my favourite parts of the film but surrounding those interactions are some fairly dull characters all around. Theres evil government man who you think is behind everything but he isnt and only serves to make Claire look like a horny idiot glasses anime man who actually does the meme where he pushes his glasses up in every scene hes in boring soldier character that gets bitten and its sad other boring soldier character who takes up way too much screentime and so on. Thankfully the scenes where its just these characters are minimal and usually they have Leon or Claire hanging around to balance things out but that doesnt change just how unengaging they are for me. Senator Ron Davis feels like a joke character a comical asshole who ends up just being that a comical ass hole. He knocks a kid down into a hoard of zombies and later talks about how he hates kids when he sees her crying a few moments later but his greatest comeuppance is a slap in the face. Hes built up as this bad guy a guy that was on the committee to nuke Raccoon City a guy who is involved with the real main antagonist but at the end Claire unloads a bunch of accusations on him he calls her crazy and then Leon says the equivalent of Claire what are you talking about? and they go to catch the real bad guy. I do actually like Senator Ron Davis viewed purely as a joke character though. he is the star of the show in the opening third of the movie. Speaking honestly the opening third in the airport is probably the most interesting part of the movie. Claire is probably one of the most endearing characters in the Biohazard universe and it shows here her choosing to be with TerraSava rather than a Biohazard task force like the BSAA is perfectly in line with how she was characterized in 2 and CODE:Veronica entries where she was more focused on protecting whoever she could rather than tracking down who was responsible for all this and back to the point the opening third is wholly Claires and if the movie was just more stuff like that Id probably like it a whole lot more. 2000https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/811111525729042453/834559367830962227/mpvshot0007.png Sadly the airport is only part of the film and this is part of a major issue the film has. It just feels too damn long. Characters are driving across the country after this third and its to the detriment of the pacing. Claire goes with glasses man to evil BigPharma place while Leon stands in front of a burning house for what feels like an eternity. Im being serious here they cut back to Leon standing in the same spot like four times in the movie while Claire is drinking tea and talking about viruses and the pace of the move comes to a stop and by the time stuff starts happening again you just want it to be over. Its a real shame that the film crashes and burns with a whimper because some of the ideas its throwing around at the end are interesting. Terrorists getting Umbrellas viruses exposing the American Governments involvement with BOWs and Umbrella other companies picking up where Umbrella left off this is all interesting stuff for the franchise but this movie uses those ideas purely as setdressing and setup. The American connection to Umbrella wont be seen again till Biohazard 6 terrorists using the viruses wouldnt be until Revelations and Damnation wait for that review and other companies taking over Umbrellas research is purely just foreshadowing to 5. Maybe if this film spent less time jumping around and more time focusing on the ideas it was throwing out Id actually think it was great. Maybe Infinite Darkness will be able to cash in on these ideas. Probably not but one can hope. 2000https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/811111525729042453/834595605094727690/mpvshot0015.png All in all BIOHAZARD Degeneration is a middling entry to a series I hold in mostly high regard. I recommend the airport section of the film wholeheartedly but if you arent already a big fan of the series avoid the rest. You will not have a good time.