Primarily, this movie should not be seen as anything other than a fun popcorn action flick with a ton of fan service. Following that notion there are standalone good things about this movie and certainly some bad.
As CG movies go, this one is neither great nor is it really bad. It's OK and it fulfills its primary intention - entertain the audience for an hour and a half (-ish).
The good elements are that the movie follows the lore of the game and it does that quite tightly. So, fans of the video games will immediately recognize all the reference points upon which the story is based.
The great thing this movie does is depicting Jill's coping with her RE5 past. Since we have not seen her since that game in the narrative continuation (aside from the RE3 Remake), it is nice to see some development for her character. And this is the movie's strongest point. Jill's internal struggles are what drives this movie to an interesting connection with the story's main antagonist. The need for coping with past problems and trauma is a very deep theme that RE Death Island tackles with. Even though it may seem superficial at first, upon further assessment, one can conclude that the way this theme is tackled is not bad at all. In fact, it is actually depicted much better than expected. The main problem is that the story has a lot of "filling" in places that can divert the audience's attention from this theme which is a shame.
The main problem with the movie is its unnecessary assembly of all main RE protagonists. The type of "evil" presented in this movie just doesn't seem to be that big that it warrants a full assembly of all protagonists. Leon's ark in this movie is just not necessary and could have been removed completely. If a bit more focus was present in the overall presentation of the general theme, this would have been a far better movie.
Also, I am not really sure why the movie was not made using the REngine as the graphics seemed sub par to the recent video games, and that is something to hold against the movie.
It is an overall improvement over Infinite darkness, and is not a generally bad movie. It has certain interesting themes it tackles with, but the unnecessary filling with characters and story padding with element derailing from the main interesting themes do hurt the movies overall quality. However, it is fun and it provides a great Sunday afternoon flick.
As CG movies go, this one is neither great nor is it really bad. It's OK and it fulfills its primary intention - entertain the audience for an hour and a half (-ish).
The good elements are that the movie follows the lore of the game and it does that quite tightly. So, fans of the video games will immediately recognize all the reference points upon which the story is based.
The great thing this movie does is depicting Jill's coping with her RE5 past. Since we have not seen her since that game in the narrative continuation (aside from the RE3 Remake), it is nice to see some development for her character. And this is the movie's strongest point. Jill's internal struggles are what drives this movie to an interesting connection with the story's main antagonist. The need for coping with past problems and trauma is a very deep theme that RE Death Island tackles with. Even though it may seem superficial at first, upon further assessment, one can conclude that the way this theme is tackled is not bad at all. In fact, it is actually depicted much better than expected. The main problem is that the story has a lot of "filling" in places that can divert the audience's attention from this theme which is a shame.
The main problem with the movie is its unnecessary assembly of all main RE protagonists. The type of "evil" presented in this movie just doesn't seem to be that big that it warrants a full assembly of all protagonists. Leon's ark in this movie is just not necessary and could have been removed completely. If a bit more focus was present in the overall presentation of the general theme, this would have been a far better movie.
Also, I am not really sure why the movie was not made using the REngine as the graphics seemed sub par to the recent video games, and that is something to hold against the movie.
It is an overall improvement over Infinite darkness, and is not a generally bad movie. It has certain interesting themes it tackles with, but the unnecessary filling with characters and story padding with element derailing from the main interesting themes do hurt the movies overall quality. However, it is fun and it provides a great Sunday afternoon flick.