Biohazard: Death Island

First thing first. I love resident evil. Some of the scenes remind me of some of the previous Resident Evil games. (Nomally, i always wanna know about resident evil game. Even in anime version. Or in movie version)

Apart from that, I can see a lot of action, tension, emotional and also GORE being shown.
I also saw unexpected moments in several scenes.

The visuals are also epic. The story is also epic.

As a writer, I didn't expect to see a very epic and fiery Resident Evil like this. I like it very much. I'm very grateful to be able to watch Resident Evil. This movie ... will be my motivation to write later.

After all, it has become my habit if there is something that makes me curious. Moreover, about Resident Evil.

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