Chris Redfield gets his team killed (yet again). Leon S. Kennedy can’t get his vacation. Rebecca Chambers has been missing from the franchise for fifteen years, but now she’s back (just to big kidnapped). A mysterious man releases a virus on New York City. Basically, business as usual in the Resident Evil universe.
This week on Toonami Absolution, Alyx, Jon, and Sam cover Resident Evil: Vendetta (2017), the third Capcom CGI film and the one that finally brings Chris, Leon, and Rebecca into the same story.
Set between Resident Evil 6 and Resident Evil 7 starts with Chris Redfield trying to hunt down Glenn Arias, a black market weapons dealer with a new virus and a very personal revenge plan.
Alas, Arias escapes forcing Chris to team up with Leon S. Kennedy and Rebecca Chambers, to bring him down. Alas, Arias becomes fixated on Rebecca Chambers due to her resemblance to his dead wife. Thus, Leon grabs a motorcycle and joins Chris on a race through New York to save Rebecca and stop Arias before he can turn everyone into zombies.
We discuss how Vendetta compares to Degeneration and Damnation, what we think about Rebecca's return to the franchise after fifteen years absence, and if Capcom actually understands what Resident Evil fans actually want from a movie version.
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