Resident Evil is bringing followers an excellent double-feature with Requiem’s February 27, 2026 debut, pairing Leon S. Kennedy’s anticipated return with newcomer Alyssa Ashcroft. Early glimpses have made this an particularly gritty Resident Evil recreation, mixing Leon’s motion gameplay with Alyssa’s hair-raising pressure into two distinctive tales.
The fandom clearly cannot get sufficient of Leon, although, with each movement seize CGI movie that includes him of their tales, and for good purpose. Leon’s tacky action-hero one-liners would definitely be additionally at house in any of the extra schlocky live-action movies, however maybe probably the most dependable Resident Evil film solely starring Leon is his 2012 film, Resident Evil: Damnation.
Resident Evil: Damnation Is the Franchise’s Solely 100% RT Film
Whereas solely 5 Rotten Tomatoes critics chimed in for Resident Evil’s second feature-length animated film, its usually optimistic reception is remarkably extra constant than even the combined evaluations for the remainder of the franchise, significantly Paul W.S. Anderson’s high-budget B-movies. Nonetheless, it is value noting that this film is especially finest for followers well-versed within the franchise.
“Higher than its predecessor, and lightweight years past the live-action variations.”
-Sebastian Zavala Kahn, Más Players
It is a honest level, too. Whereas the film eases the viewer in with the plot, the place Leon should go to the fictional Jap Slav Republic to uproot any Bio-Natural Weapons (BOWs) getting used of their civil battle, it expects others to be acquainted with key factors from Resident Evil 2 and 4.
That is a straightforward feat, although; they’re probably the most iconic, and arguably one of the best, of Resident Evil’s recreation library. One can rapidly decide up the cues, together with Leon’s one-liners feeling like one thing delivered by an emo Ash Williams from Evil Useless, and Leon’s chemistry and previous with Ada Wong is fairly merely laid out.
“Should you’re a fan of the sequence, that is lastly the ‘Resident Evil’ expertise you have been ready on.”
-Jeffrey Lyles, Lyles’ Film Information
What this leaves viewers, past a easy lore lesson (which is as a rule pointless, given the followers are predominantly those already watching) is a high-octane plot the place Leon infiltrates a territory crawling with Las Plagas-infested victims, Lickers, and even Tyrants. Full with a captivating “Dominant Plaga” able to controlling Lickers, it is fairly straightforward to know this biopunk action-horror gem.
Resident Evil Went Downhill as Its Highest-Rated Film Dropped
With followers rising more and more weary following boulder-punching Chris Redfield’s Kijuju romp, Resident Evil 6 was extra of a “flashpoint” for the fandom who bought fed up with the franchise. Totally prioritizing dramatic motion with horror firmly within the backseat, this recreation launched worldwide merely 25 days earlier than Resident Evil: Damnation.
What adopted was 5 years of irritating, horrible Resident Evil video games, and no film ever bought near Damnation’s Rotten Tomatoes rating. Even after being “saved” in 2017, the films by no means recovered regardless of a number of inventive pivots with lukewarm viewers reception like Welcome to Raccoon Metropolis, and regardless of the deal was with that Netflix sequence.
But, one common fixed stays, and now that the Resident Evil video games have skilled a exceptional return to kind, with Leon’s new marketing campaign being his bloodiest ever, followers can bury the hatchet following his most up-to-date canon recreation in 2012. Extra particularly, bury Leon’s hatchet into the shambling hordes of zombies plaguing a desolate, cratered Raccoon Metropolis’s haunted stays.
- Created by
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Shinji Mikami, Tokuro Fujiwara
- First Episode Air Date
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July 8, 2021