Biohazard: Death Island

It is a good film with some well done action scenes that will leave most fans satisfied. After all, this time around the movie features every single one of the main characters of this legendary franchise getting together to take down this new threat. I'm glad to inform you that it mostly does justice to all of them other than Jill being a bit extra at times (in her mannerisms, not the action sequences) and Rebecca's introduction scene with Chris being a bit meh. Also, sadly most of the characters don't get that much time to shine as the movie's main character is Jill and ... the story predominantly focuses on her.

Action:
The animation is great and all of the characters look superb. I do wish they kept Leon's jacket all the way through and that Jill had a new outfit but those are minor grievances as everything else looks on point. The film does justice to all of these superhuman characters by showcasing their amazing survivalist and acrobatic abilities, though I wish there was more of this. Resident Evil has always had the strongest characters in the genre and their strengths are on maximum display here. All the characters get their time to shine and they look really badass too, sadly Leon Kennedy who is my favorite gets little time to shine in the later half but I still loved to see him back.

Characters:
Let’s be real, the characters are the reason we are watching this movie. This is the first time many of them have interacted with each other for the first time and their interactions are great, I only wish there were more of them. As mentioned earlier all of them get to shine and share the screen with each other. This is basically an Avengers film for RE fans.
I am very happy to announce that Leon is finally over his depressed arc from RE Damnation, RE6 onwards, and is now back to his full charming non-depressed goofy self from RE4.
For all of them other than Chris Redfield, this is the latest version we are seeing of them as the movie takes place after RE6 and Rev 2. I loved to see them all return, it made me feel like a child finally reuniting with his favorites in the continuity. Thank God, the movie is canon, otherwise no idea when Capcom would have these characters make their apperance in a new game again.

Story:
The main story is meh, it literally only exists to get the characters to come across each other and present us with many spectacular showdowns. I don’t mind the story being ignorable cause it was never intended to be anything special, all of us are here for the interactions and action sequences, but most of all to see our favorites finally return.

Conclusion:
In the end, I highly recommend it, I really enjoyed it even if the action wasnt as good, and frequent, as I had hoped. It's the sequel to RE Vendetta and is fully canon, I loved seeing all of these characters back and together and the movie does all of these legendary videogame characters plenty of justice. I'm only taking off a score because Leon didn't get to shine that much and Jill was a bit out of character at times. 8/10.

The legendary Resident Evil franchise has been expanded for Hollywood movies, lackluster live action series and even manga. While most of these adaptations haven´t been well received by fans of the video game saga, the Japanese CGI movies are considered to be the best adaptation of the tone of the game. As a longtime fan of the series, Death Island seemed like a dream crossover, and while the fanservice is plenty, the movie is very flawed.

Death Island is definitely a movie tailor made for RE fans, beginning with flashbacks to the Raccoon City incident while discreetly introducing new characters for the plot of this movie. ... Fast forward to the present? (actually 2015 due to the franchise weird timeline), we quickly encounter the familiar faces of Jill Valentine, Leon Kennedy, Rebecca Chambers and the Redfield siblings. Even if this character lineup sounds like a dream team, they aren´t quite working together but following their personal duties, basically following the events from RE4, RE5, RE6, Revelations 2 and the Infinite Darkness series and retaining the character development and characterization from these works. While the characters seem as stale and stoic as their portrayal on the modern RE games, Jill Valentine, a longtime missing series veteran, makes her return and is definitely the highlight of this movie. Dealing with the aftermath of the traumatic events from RE5, Jill has to learn to work in a team again with the help of her longtime coworkers.

The movie´s plot is basically just a poorly-written afterthought even for the standard of the RE series, being extremely similar to the plot of other outbreak incidents in universe, with the villain unironically having to acknowledge that our main characters are tired of dealing with such threats. The lack of creativity even extends to the virus´effects and mutations, recycling ideas from all over the series for the BOW present in this movie. The action segments of the movie are serviceable and enough well done to be fairly entertaining, although not quite reaching the heights of the other RE CGI movies.

Even with its mediocre setting, the character interactions between the main characters may justify the existence of this movie, full with cheesy dialogue and callbacks to other events within the series, Leon´s and Jill´s first meeting being one of the best scenes of the movie. Overall, Death Island is worth a watch for diehard RE fans, newcomers to the franchise might only enjoy the decent action scenes and impressive CGI animation.

As a long time fan of the Resident Evil/Biohazard series, I can say this movie was average. If you just want to see your favorite characters do cool stuff, ok sure watch it, but if you're looking for an actually good entertaining story, it's a pretty big dodge. If you've never had contact with the resident evil series, then don't even bother watching, because unlike past resident evil movies, this wasn't very entertaining

Enjoyment: the most important factor
I don't mind a movie with a stupid plot nor other bad characteristics, as long as it's fun and keeps me entertained. Was this movie fun? Hell no. ... Halfway through the movie, I remember thinking to myself "Man, when does this end?". Unlike previous Resident Evil movies which had a big Unga Bunga element to them but were still very enjoyable with tons of cool moments, Biohazard Death Island is a chore to watch. It felt like running through the Sahara desert, desperately wishing for water, but you can't even see a god damn mirage of an oasis

Plot:
It's more of the same. Random crazy person with some past trauma tries to use new zombie virus strain to do evil stuff, and our main characters have to stop him. Along the way, a bunch of civilians and side characters always die, but no one really cares because it's not the main characters

Characters:
I mean, it's the protagonists of the Resident Evil games. You get to watch all your favorite characters interact with each other and do cool sh*t... but then there's the random generic villain number 59# and 60# who no ones gives a sh*t about. I legit just finished watching the movie and have already forgotten their names

Voice acting:
I rarely talk about the voice acting, but god damn, it's kinda bad. Some characters' voice acting is noticeably bad to the point where you laugh due to the complete lack of effort. It's as if they just did 1 single take and the director was like "Yeah whatever, let's go with that"

Visuals:
The visuals are overall pretty good. My only criticism is that some characters' movements seemed really stiff, and I feel that the fight choreography is worse than in the past movies

Conclusion 5/10
If 10/10 is the absolute best movie you ever watched, and 1/10 is the worst most garbage movie you've seen and 5/10 mediocre, I'd say this was a solid 5/10, pretty average overall