Resident Evil: Damnation

Leon S. Kennedy enters the Eastern Slav Republic to verify rumors that Bio-Organic Weapons (BOWs) are being used in the country's civil war. After his arrival, Ingrid Hunnigan informs him the government has ordered an immediate retreat of all U.S. forces. Determined to stop the BOWs, Leon ignores the order. He comes across his contact, who has been attacked and is then killed by a Licker, revealing to be a lead one, after Leon is knocked out by an explosion; a shadowy figure orders the Licker not to kill Leon. Leon awakens, tied to a chair by rebel fighters J.D., the former teacher Alexander Kozachenko (Buddy), and the elderly Ivan Judanovich, the group's Ataman.

Meanwhile, President Svetlana Belikova meets Ada Wong, who is posing as a BSAA agent. Ada explains a human infected with the dominant Las Plagas parasite will have a brief master-slave relationship with lesser BOWs infected with the T-virus. Elsewhere, soldiers burst into the rebel hideout; Leon tries to warn them of Ivan's infection, but Buddy starts a shoot-out. Ivan tells Buddy to kill him and Buddy reluctantly complies. Leon escapes and meets JD, only for Plaga hosts to attack them. JD leads Leon to a church, where they regroup with other rebels. JD helps Leon escape, urging him to stop Buddy, as he is obsessed with his hatred of the government, which bombed his school, killing his fiancée and his students.

Leon runs into Ada, who admits she is in the country to collect a sample of Plaga and hinting at a past romantic involvement with Leon. Ada then leaves, warning the city will soon be bombed. Leon returns to the church to find Ganados have attacked it, killing the other rebels and infecting JD. After Buddy arrives, he and JD share some last words and Leon kills JD. Leon then asks Buddy to give up the Plaga, who refuses and escapes when military jets bomb the church.

Svetlana exposes Ada as a fraud, who is captured after a fight with Svetlana. Leon shortly afterwards entered the bunker where Ada is held. Ada escapes using a hidden knife and meets Leon at the main hive control. When Svetlana and her army troops surround them, Ada releases a smoke bomb and escapes, while Leon kills several soldiers. Buddy arrives, sending Lickers to attack the troops. Svetlana activates two Tyrants to eliminate Leon, Buddy and the Lickers. Leon and Buddy team up and barely make it out of the palace basement, apparently escaping the Tyrants.

Outside, a third Tyrant appears; Leon and Buddy decapitate it with tank fire. When they leave the overturned tank, Leon and Buddy are confronted with the first two Tyrants. Chased by the Tyrants and with no ammo left, Leon prepares to make a last stand with the help of Buddy's last surviving pet Licker to distract the tyrant before it disappears without a trace, when USAF A-10 attack planes appear and take out both Tyrants, showing that Leons superiors were keeping a watch on him throughout his time in the Eastern Slav Republic. Just as Svetlana prepares for her press conference, she is informed by a joint Russian and American invasion, which forces her to resign.

As Leon and Buddy watch the invasion, Buddy asks Leon to kill him before the Plaga takes control. Leon refuses, telling him to live to serve as the living memory of those who died and then shoots Buddy's spine, severing the Plaga's control over him. Three days later, Leon speaks to Hunnigan about the mission, while elsewhere Ada speaks to her employer about a Plaga sample she retrieved, but does not make clear if she will hand it over. The film ends showing Buddy in a wheelchair, pushing himself towards a school, presumably having once again become a teacher. The credits display cinematic scenes from Resident Evil 6.

Voice actors and motion capture actors for the characters are listed below:[4]

At the end of 2008, when Resident Evil: Degeneration was released, the producers talked about a possible sequel.[5] As a result of Degeneration's commercial success, Capcom and SPEJ decided to co-operate again to produce the sequel. Production for the sequel officially began in September 2010.[6][7] For the film, screenwriter Shatora Suga went to Eastern Europe and created East Slavic Republic, a fictional post-Soviet country formed following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.[5] The film was produced with motion capture and 3D.[8] The theme song by Anna Tsuchiya, titled "CARRY ON", is played during the credits.[9]

The first trailer and the first seven minutes of the film debuted in the panel discussion at the San Diego Comic-Con on July 13, 2012.[10] The film was released theatrically in Shinjuku, Aichi, and Osaka on October 27, 2012.[11][8]

Capcom and Sony Pictures released Damnation as a digital download on Xbox Live, Zune and PlayStation Network on September 15, 2012,[12] and on DVD and Blu-ray on September 25, 2012.[13] The Damnation bonus contents include an art gallery of conceptual sketches, a 7-minute short film about the Plaga creatures seen in the film, a 30-minute documentary about the making of the film, a 6-minute gag reel, and video game and film trailers (such as Resident Evil 6, DmC: Devil May Cry and Dragon's Dogma).[14][15][16] In the United States, Resident Evil: Damnation has earned $3.3 million in home video sales.[17]

It grossed $2,325,035 at the Japanese box office.[1]

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 100% of 5 reviews are positive for the film, and the average rating is 8/10.[18] IGN gave the film a score of 7.8 out of 10, named it "the best Resident Evil film to-date".[16] Starburst rated it 7/10.[19]

It was awarded the 2013 International 3D Society Japan Award for animation.[20]

The film was followed by Resident Evil: Vendetta, which was released in 2017.[21]

• Official website
• Film blog (in Japanese)
• Resident Evil: Damnation at IMDb