Resident Evil: Isla de la Muerte

Over-the-top action, cheesy dialogue, and all your favorite characters from the series. This movie is by no means a masterpiece, however, if you're a fan of the series who's able to suspend your belief and manage your expectations, you might find this movie fun to watch, especially if you enjoyed the previous Resident Evil CGI movies.

What I loved about the movie is its dedication to the series and detail-oriented approach in terms of characters and their personalities, for example, Leon has his usual corny (yet adorable) one-liners, while Jill (modeled after her RE 3 Remake appearance) was passionate, emotional, and at the same time, trying to look as serious as she can.

Go see it if you're a fan, if not, don't, there's isn't much to see here.

I am a huge fan of the Resident Evil games and all the movies. So, naturally, I had big expectations for this movie. For the first time, we saw Chris, Leon, Jill, Claire and Rebecca together and I cant say that I'm disappointed, but I'm also not very satisfied. The story is good, nothing special but good enough. The villain is very archetypal but it has some interesting details. The most important thing is that the five main characters are great. They act as you may expect, having known them from the video games and such.

Now, the reason why I think it is not great and just good. It's all part of one problem: it's too short. Normally, talking about movies, people complain about the opposite, that movies are too long, but this is a special case. This movie lasts almost 90 minutes. It is very short and it feels that way. It should last at least 30 minutes more. The problem is that this movie should be epic, but it doesn't have enough time to be. Because you need time to build expectations and create emotion. You have five main characters and a villain. Each of them needs screen time. Everything happens very fast and you don't get any time to digest this epic reunion.

This is supposed to be like The Avengers for Resident Evil fans; all your heroes together at last. But it ended up too quickly and didn't exploit any of the big moments that we waited years to see.

Ah, resident evil!

From low-tech horror to sci-fi garbage. It sure is fun to see Chris repeatedly punch a giant boulder, or fight against the law-defiant Wesker in the video games! But it's no secret the franchise has nowhere to go and can only keep chasing its tail with a variation of the same premise! The initial Raccoon incident and exploration of the source of the problem were interesting and different at the time.. Now I'm honestly REALLY tired of these churned out products that amount to nothing!! At least it finally seems like they are connecting the stories somewhat, with reference to events from Vendetta, RE6 and previous game entries. Death Island continues to give a simplistically boring premise, and a continuation of pointless B Stories where the good guys stop a disposable villain that hates the world and makes a new iteration of the "virus".. while ultimately being nothing but a nuisance for a while. Lows takes, repeated stakes!

But worse of all is how insulting it ends up being to me as a viewer. For example : 1. The dialogue being atrocious! And it's very strange to see Jill Valentine groan at Leon's one liners and even insults Chris' heavy handedness. I wonder what the point of that was.. 2. The introduction of a foot soldier becoming a trafficking tech-villain capable of creating a new virus that doesn't spread and turns people rather quickly.. except when it doesn't. There's no tension, and repercussions are easily fixed.

3. It was nice to see Maria Gomez again, the powerful killing machine that can't kill anyone. Very representative of the whole thing.

4. An "Avengers moment" with all the known cast in service of nothing, being rather lame to witness.

5. Contrived confrontation with final threat with a convenient Armory around (Plasma Rifle included).

Sure, these continue to be visually impressive (from the models, the movement and the choreographies).. but the line "Looks like us suckers win. Again" being followed by "And they'll keep coming back for more!" was rather depressing. To top it all with "But we sure did kick some ass, didn't we?" was enough to feel like being bullied and kicked in the balls for liking Resident Evil!!

But I'm definitely sure that countries like Svetlana's wagging BOW wars against one another for power.. and for characters to become super powered beings while slugging it out wouldn't be any better. Whoever is in charge of these better change his perspective instead of being considered a joke.

I had never heard about this 2023 CGI animated foray into the "Resident Evil" franchise. But of course I had to sit down and watch it as soon as I had the opportunity to do so.

However, I must admit that I wasn't really harboring much of any grand expectations for it, since the majority of the released CGI animated movies have been mediocre at best. But still, I opted to give writer Makoto Fukami and director Eiichirô Hasumi's movie a fair chance.

The storyline in "Resident Evil: Death Island" was simplistic and straight forward, and thus it requires zero interaction from the audience. You just simply lean back and watch Chris Redfield, Leon S. Kennedy, Claire Redfield and Jill Valentine take on yet another outbreak of T-virus infected. So it was pretty much a copy-paste job from the numerous of previous CGI movies in the franchise. Except "Resident Evil: Death Island" takes place on Alcatraz island and includes a new method of infection.

So yeah, the storyline was pretty shallow and not overly innovative or refreshing. And the movie did suffer from that. And let's just not venture deeper into the plot holes or questionable things that just happened to be there to further the narrative, such as the conveniently placed rocket launchers, plasma rifle, and what not.

Visually, however, then "Resident Evil: Death Island" was quite nice. The CGI was pretty good and definitely helped to keep "Resident Evil: Death Island" afloat. And of course you have some massive mutation that the gang comes face to face with, gee, where have we seen that before? I have to say that the mutation in "Resident Evil: Death Island" was pretty laughable.

"Resident Evil: Death Island" is just another notch in the "Resident Evil" franchise's belt, though not as abysmal as the God awful Netflix series.

My rating of "Resident Evil: Death Island" lands on a less than mediocre four out of ten stars.

While Infinite Darkness looked a bit dated, they dialed up path tracing to the max here.

It really looks good most of the time and styled like recent RE game remakes.

That's about it.

Although, you could say the "movie" is very efficient... short is maybe a better word for it. Action kicks off right away and it's dumb, so dumb.

Plot is on par with previous non-game entries, nothing really important to the overall plot. A side mission if you will, against some random evil doers. Zero horror, all the action. No stakes. Life saving chekhov's gun is mentioned 10 minutes into the movie and is used at appropriate time. No surprises.

It really is a placeholder, a franchise promo so you don't forget for five minues it exists.

Is the plot relevant? No. Is the action engaging? Somewhat. Are the characters immersive? No.

Listen, Resident Evil is here a long time and when you look at it, starting from the first game there is something Resident Evil almost every year since - so I'm not expecting someting mind blowing, given the way whole franchise jumped the shark multiple times during these almost 30 years. But, I'm still hoping to see one solid, good RE movie or at least above average animated feature. And it's just not coming.

Could you watch this? Sure. Should you watch this? Maybe, it's your time, do with it what you will but don't expect top tier horror animated action movie. It is schlock with dumb script and it looks good.