Yeah, the reviews here are basically correct: The movie's terrible. The only reason I decided to watch it was for the scenes with Stanley Tucci. Unfortunately, those scenes also usually included Matt Smith . . . who's not awful, mind you -- but, not great, either.
The movie is stupid. Stupid, for example, in its beginning where they give you all the background for the movie's premise in the opening credits and, then, have Matt Smith's character, Morgan, explain the premise all over again just right after as the actual movie opens. There's also some dumb conceit about using a certain famous singer's music and, then, assigning that singer's name to each "zombie". So, for example, Zombie A is going to be "Joe Cocker"; Zombie B is going to be Pete Townshend. Then, they place a vinyl record on the victrola to play. Supposedly, playing such music "bothers" the zombie-types. And, with that I agree: Has NO ONE ever heard of Eddie Van Halen?
The movie is "by-the-numbers" boring. All the cliches done to death -- and, better -- in other sci-fi and horror movies are re-hashed here: the man who's infected, yet seemingly immune; the intelligent zombie who's aware; the infected people as the next and (and, perhaps, better) step in mankind's evolution; the nexus between the military and scientific experts working for a cure in some base somewhere; the infected family member; the stupid, wisecracking character who ends up getting infected and having to get euthanized (though, I didn't quite mind that one); the invading zombies who have to be avoided by: running, sneaking, crawling through things, etc. Yeah, it's all been done before . . . and, better.
So, I say: Watch the few scenes with Stanley Tucci. Then, take the DVD and return it to the library.
The movie is stupid. Stupid, for example, in its beginning where they give you all the background for the movie's premise in the opening credits and, then, have Matt Smith's character, Morgan, explain the premise all over again just right after as the actual movie opens. There's also some dumb conceit about using a certain famous singer's music and, then, assigning that singer's name to each "zombie". So, for example, Zombie A is going to be "Joe Cocker"; Zombie B is going to be Pete Townshend. Then, they place a vinyl record on the victrola to play. Supposedly, playing such music "bothers" the zombie-types. And, with that I agree: Has NO ONE ever heard of Eddie Van Halen?
The movie is "by-the-numbers" boring. All the cliches done to death -- and, better -- in other sci-fi and horror movies are re-hashed here: the man who's infected, yet seemingly immune; the intelligent zombie who's aware; the infected people as the next and (and, perhaps, better) step in mankind's evolution; the nexus between the military and scientific experts working for a cure in some base somewhere; the infected family member; the stupid, wisecracking character who ends up getting infected and having to get euthanized (though, I didn't quite mind that one); the invading zombies who have to be avoided by: running, sneaking, crawling through things, etc. Yeah, it's all been done before . . . and, better.
So, I say: Watch the few scenes with Stanley Tucci. Then, take the DVD and return it to the library.
