EvilNed
15-Sep-2006, 04:20 PM
What do people think of this film?
I just got it, and I don't really know what to think. Obviously, it's superlow budget and I knew it was going to be. With a movie like this, there's no need to develop characters or provide good dialogue, because no matter how hard you try it's just going to end up silly.
But still, I liked some parts of it. The acting was obviously crap and all that, but it was still fun to watch. It was damn gory, and the effects were good. It had some interesting ideas, for sure. The zombie cult, the mouthguards, the serum, the zombie squad, the protestors etc. etc. All of it was very cheaply done, but good ideas nonetheless.
My only main gripe was that all of the main characters were so damn stupid. Did the goverment even train these zombie troopers? I mean, in the first ten minutes of the film, two of the guys get bit in the most ridiculous situations. One guy gets bit by a severed head, that he KNOWS is there. Infact, he pretty much puts his fingers in the heads mouth. The other guy gets bitten by a zombie that's strapped down. How the hell do you manage that?
The zombies were also strange. Sometimes they were slow, sometimes they were fast. Sometimes they were insanely strong and filled with raged, other times they were slow and lunged at the characters with sort of half-assed "I-could-give-a-damn" attempts and were easily pushed away. There didn't seem to be any real zombie rules set down by the filmmakers. In one scene, it's demonstrated that shooting the zombies in the head does no good whatsoever. Even decapitating them will keep both the head and body alive. Yet later in the film, a zombie is killed by running over his head. Decapitating doesn't work, but crushing his head does?
Had a little more effort been put into the zombie aspects of the script, it would have been good. Now it's a bit to strange for me. These often very weak yet indestructable zombies rarely offer any serious threat to our heroes unless the script needs one of them bitten.
I just got it, and I don't really know what to think. Obviously, it's superlow budget and I knew it was going to be. With a movie like this, there's no need to develop characters or provide good dialogue, because no matter how hard you try it's just going to end up silly.
But still, I liked some parts of it. The acting was obviously crap and all that, but it was still fun to watch. It was damn gory, and the effects were good. It had some interesting ideas, for sure. The zombie cult, the mouthguards, the serum, the zombie squad, the protestors etc. etc. All of it was very cheaply done, but good ideas nonetheless.
My only main gripe was that all of the main characters were so damn stupid. Did the goverment even train these zombie troopers? I mean, in the first ten minutes of the film, two of the guys get bit in the most ridiculous situations. One guy gets bit by a severed head, that he KNOWS is there. Infact, he pretty much puts his fingers in the heads mouth. The other guy gets bitten by a zombie that's strapped down. How the hell do you manage that?
The zombies were also strange. Sometimes they were slow, sometimes they were fast. Sometimes they were insanely strong and filled with raged, other times they were slow and lunged at the characters with sort of half-assed "I-could-give-a-damn" attempts and were easily pushed away. There didn't seem to be any real zombie rules set down by the filmmakers. In one scene, it's demonstrated that shooting the zombies in the head does no good whatsoever. Even decapitating them will keep both the head and body alive. Yet later in the film, a zombie is killed by running over his head. Decapitating doesn't work, but crushing his head does?
Had a little more effort been put into the zombie aspects of the script, it would have been good. Now it's a bit to strange for me. These often very weak yet indestructable zombies rarely offer any serious threat to our heroes unless the script needs one of them bitten.