Play This movie: Resident Evil Degeneration

Milla is traded in for these CG gals

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Resident Evil Degeneration receives 3/5 burritos

Resident Evil Degeneration director Makoto Kamiya decided to take his film on a CG route far from the previous three. In lue of the terrible other CG only films like Final Fantasty, the perfection that comes from the movies graphics is just a taste of what is to come from our video games. Sadly the script and story line was pretty shallow and it seemed more so like a large advertisement with how amazing their CG graphics has come along.

The short end of the stick is the movie looks great, but the story line just leads away from the Umbrella Corp. onto the T-virus becoming a bio-terror attack weapon and the government hiding that it was created by humans. They are also trying to hide the G-virus (Nemesis project) until someone gets a hold of it. All in all the story line was pretty much junk and the film went by rather quickly, but the graphics boost the film to a great step towards hopefully a series of new CG films that don’t suck by epic proportions.

This film is worth a rent, but as there is not much in the special features department and the movie really doesn’t have much context to it you may as well just watch it and ditch it.

Play This movie: Four Christmases provides laughs and more bland holiday joy

Vaughn and Witherspoon

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Holiday movies in the past decade have produced some of the most bland and boring films, Four Christmases is just barley above this generalization. Most holiday themed films that directly have to do with holiday travel  woes, issues that commonly happen  and of course family issues, all of which are often embellished.

[The feel good movies that are released around Holiday seasons in the past like The Persuit of Happyness are great films and are not to be confused for these slop shop films that are simply made for the holiday viewers.]

The actors in the film are oddly enough still in peak films that get quite a large bank, where as most holiday films yield actors like Tim Allen (Christmas with the Kranks: terrible film) who have past their prime. Four Christmases displaying actors from John Voight to Tim McGraw, not to mention Jon Favereau who has exploded since his directing of Iron Man. While McGraw and Favereau may have been meat heads (Vaughn’s brothers) in the movie Robert Duvall played the white trash father of Vaughn, each doing a very believable, yet over embellished role.

Acting: The acting throughout the film was great for a holiday film and of course Vaughn threw in plenty of witty humor but very well could have been upstaged by Witherspoon until she had her stereotypical feminine ideals kick in completely changing her role. 4/5

Story: This is where the film loses the audience and obviously with out a decent story line a movie will fail. The basic idea of the story is of a successful couple who are ditching their families to vacation in Fiji. Some how smog roles over the San Francisco canceling all flights for the day. A reporter notices the couple and approaches them to get their opinion on their flight being cancelled causing each of their four families to see that they will be stuck at home, causing them to instantly have seen this and call them to say they must now visit. Mix in a pile of Vaughn style jokes and Favereau beating his ass and you have a so called film. Sadly the story line was dull and boring after what felt like a stand up act on comedy central. 2/5

Soundtrack: Your basic Christmasy soundtrack, nothing special and obviously suitable for the film. 4/5

Cinematics: The camera work was good but nothing special to set this film apart from any other holiday film. 3/5

Overall: This film felt like a half assed National Lampoon film mixed in with every other bland and boring holiday flick.  As there has been nothing else of the holiday season yet to be released it will achieve a large amount of moolah it’s first week but as the others come in to play it will quickly get washed out.

Four Christmases recieves 3/5 burritos