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Resident Evil: Death Island. A t-virus outbreak in San Francisco leads to Alcatraz Island, where a new evil has taken residence. Watch Resident Evil: Death Island with a...
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- Horror, Action, Animation
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By Johnny Loftus
Updated: Jul 26, 2023 2:20 pm
Posted: Jul 26, 2023 2:19 pm
The gang’s all here for Resident Evil: Death Island, which puts the Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance’s Chris Redfield (Kevin Dorman), Jill Valentine (Nicole Tompkins), and Rebecca Chambers (Erin Cahill) into the field alongside TerraSave's Claire Redfield (Stephanie Panisello) and faithful DSO agent Leon S. Kennedy (Matthew Mercer). Their mission? Try to contain a new kind of viral outbreak that operates with its own set of rules. It’s 2015, and we’re in San Francisco – in Capcom’s ever-expanding RE universe, Death Island takes place after Resident Evil: Vendetta but before Resident Evil 7: Biohazard – and this time around, a lunatic is out to murder millions with his bio-engineered, T-Virus-addled drones. The CG animation really levels up whenever an action sequence hits, and the creature effects are impressive. But when our heroes slow down, either to consider all of the violence they’ve experienced or just to listen to a madman expose his grand scheme, Death Island can’t find a pulse.
While Jill and Chris investigate a run of mysterious new infections in San Francisco – the victims bear marks of being injected, not bitten – Leon chases down a shady engineer named Dr. Antonio Taylor (Frank Todaro), who was abducted before he could sell his rogue biotech on the international black market. And when Claire is called in to assess the carcass of a dead orca in the bay, she marvels at the size of the bite which did it in.
These leads converge on Alcatraz with a certainty that betrays the film’s intentions. It wants all of its principals in the same room – or in this case, the same antique prison wing – because they’re on the hit list of the villainous, Russian roulette-obsessed Dylan Blake (Daman Mills), the survivor of a botched mission to extract key Umbrella Corporation personnel from Raccoon City. (There must be a law somewhere that every Resident Evil offshoot must also lead back to the Raccoon City Incident.) It’s not enough that his T-Virus experiments have produced bio-drones designed to infect whomever he chooses. Blake wants to taunt our heroes with the revelation of his scheme. And taunt he does, to tedious extremes. The animation in Death Island is not capable of accurately conveying human emotion, but if it were, all of the film’s heroes would be groaning and giving off major side eye at the torture of Dylan Blake’s incessant droning.
Four-barreled, shoulder-fired rocket launcher
Plasma rifle
Automatic shotgun
Blake’s chrome-plated Russian roulette revolver
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It’s a nice moment of camaraderie between these legacy characters, but there’s no time for sentiment when a supervillain is unleashing diabolical creatures in your midst. Lots of zombie head shots ensue, and Jill scores a few acrobatic death blows to silence the human-hungry experiments Blake has bred in the tunnels beneath Alcatraz. And when she finally confronts him and his henchwoman Maria (Cristina Valenzuela) – she’s a throwback, too, itching to use her enhanced fighting skills against Leon after making it out of Vendetta alive – Blake has another repetitive lecture prepared that highlights his plan for a streak of global terror.
Resident Evil: Death Island takes a page from the video-game side of the long-running franchise, quickening its pace whenever an action sequence kicks in. There are gross-out T-Virus creatures here, and zombies satisfyingly blasted, and chances for each of the main heroes to rack up their kill shots. But that energy flags for lengthy stretches, as ...
Review scoring
okay
A strong sense of action and movement, but lacking on that whole talking thing.
Johnny Loftus
- Johnny Loftus
Resident Evil: Death Island Reviews. Resident Evil: Death Island should thrill franchise fans for the chance to see all their favorites assembling to kill hordes of zombies. Full...
Resident Evil: Death Island is a fun and thrilling ride for fans of the video game franchise and the animated films. The film delivers on the action, horror and fan service that one would expect from a Resident Evil movie, with impressive animation, voice acting and music.
Jul 26, 2023 · Resident Evil: Death Island takes a page from the video-game side of the long-running franchise, quickening its pace whenever an action sequence kicks in. There are gross-out T-Virus...
- Johnny Loftus
Summary. In San Francisco, Jill Valentine is dealing with a zombie outbreak and a new T-Virus, Leon is on the trail of a kidnapped DARPA scientist, and Claire Redfield is investigating a monstrous...
Jul 25, 2023 · Resident Evil: Death Island. Metascore Available after 4 critic reviews. tbd. User Score Generally Favorable Based on 36 User Ratings. 6.6. My Score. Hover and click to give a rating. Add My Review.