YMMV / Resident Evil: Death Island

• Catharsis Factor: Jill deconstructs Dylan's Freudian Excuse at his face, and calls him for it is a bit more cathartic, considering the previous film tried to pity the previous main movie villain, despite said villain was a highly dangerous Arms Dealer who thinks the world wants him dead.
• Just Here for Godzilla:
  • Having Jill's story finally continued after 5 piqued the interest of many fans, as well as having her and Leon team up for the first time in the franchise.
  • In general, many people are interested in the movie solely because this would be the first time that five of the biggest names from the original Resident Evil trilogy (Chris, Jill, Leon, Claire and Rebecca) share the same screen together^note Outside of Dead by Daylight.
• Narm: It wouldn't be Resident Evil without it.
  • Rebecca's entrance into the prison and rescue of Claire, Leon and Chris, where for some odd reason, she comes in at a slow jog and has time for a conversation with Jill ("I hope you brought backup!" "They're dead. I have the vaccine, though."). It's only after Jill tells her about the others being infected she proceeds to continue at the same steady jog, only breaking into a full-on run when she sees Leon... who she vaccinates first despite Claire having been the first infected and clearly closest to fully turning! Really, it's a miracle any of them survived.
  • There's also the sheer length of time Claire and the others are able to hold off their infections in contrast to the tourists in the original massacre, who turned within seconds. The only time the heroes seem to be in real danger is the scene where Dylan reveals himself to them, at which point Claire is suddenly on the very knife's edge of turning with sickly pale skin, red eyes and moaning in pain. She then looks the picture of health as she comforts the dying Antonio Davis and miraculously manages to hold on until Rebecca arrives with the cure, although this could partially be explained as the heroes having built up resistance from exposure to the various viruses in the past.
  • The very fact that Jill Valentine's model is completely identical to her Resident Evil 3 (Remake). If you can forgive the fact that she doesn't look like she's aged at all, you'd laugh at the fact that she's wearing the exact same outfit from that time. Not to mention Claire's model, which is nearly the same from Resident Evil 2 (Remake) and Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness.
• Salvaged Story: Claire and Rebecca's roles in their previous CGI movie appearances (as well as in Infinite Darkness, in Claire's case) have relatively minor roles, which received some criticism from fans for wasting them. Here, they are present with the others during the final battle and actively contribute to the story instead of passively.
• Special Effect Failure: Jill's character model has great hair ... which doesn't look much different after she swims underwater at the end of the film.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • Dylan conveys some very good points about the protagonists, such as Chris's survival guilt (or lack thereof), Claire's flawed campaign through TerraSave, Leon's morally grey job for the government and Jill's friend-turned-foe brainwash stint, which could have been used as motivations and development for the characters within the story, making their converging at Alcatraz for personal reasons more justified and the overcoming of each being used as another way of painting them as True Companions (even if those statements are not entirely accurate). Helping matters is Dylan being a former Umbrella employee with a somewhat tragic backstory, which could have made the plot come full circle for the whole franchise. Unfortunately, apart from Jill seeking to atone for actions committed while brainwashed, this potential plot line goes nowhere. As a result, the idea of all the protagonists working together can feel very generic and flat given the rather small stakes, with the characters only justification for getting involved in the main conflict being that Dylan specifically targeted them (which contributed to his plan failing, leading to some Fridge Logic, as although he didn't intend to survive, clearly he intended for the plan to work).
  • Continuing from Resident Evil: Vendetta, this movie delves into the ethics of the heroes' cause. This time, the villain correctly points out that Leon is working for a corrupt government that is just as every bit as guilty of bioweapon proliferation as the terrorists he fights. Nothing ultimately comes of that and Leon brushes it off with it just being his job.
• Unintentional Uncanny Valley: Some of the CGI can evoke this, as characters' faces sometimes look plastic and unemotional (and they don't blink), and their body movements look awkward and robotic.

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