I’m not saying Jeff Bezos is buying Lickers to curb union activity at Amazon, but he’s not solved world hunger yet. Want a rocket launcher-wielding, bin bag-clad meat-tank? That’ll be $11 billion, please.

The premise is that, after the fall of the Umbrella Corporation, bio-organic weapons, aka B.O.W.s, can be freely purchased by anyone with the requisite funds - a scenario that’s distressingly relevant in this age of billionaires. Instead, Damnation takes the absurd, schlocky spirit of Resident Evil 4 and just runs with it. You’ll tiptoe through Resident Evil’s picture gallery for fear the crows will descend on you in a flurry of beaks and blood, but when you’re a passive observer it just seems silly.

There’s a good reason why George Romero’s original Resident Evil script never made it to the big screen: You can’t just throw in the trappings of the original game and expect instant fear. You’d be hard-pressed to call it horror, but trying to recreate the terror of Resident Evil on the silver screen was always going to be a gamble. But it’s not just the best Resident Evil movie you’ve never seen it’s the best Resident Evil movie full stop.Įntirely rendered in CGI, Resident Evil: Damnation is, technically, a sequel to 2008’s Resident Evil: Degeneration, but it eclipses the original in every respect. On top of that, it was released the same month as the live-action Resident Evil: Retribution and was tentatively tied to the horribly middling Resident Evil 6. Resident Evil: Damnation was, outside of Japan, vomited onto video on demand with disappointingly little ceremony - an advert here, an advert there - and left largely to fend for itself.

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