GoldenBlunderbuss
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If Zombieland and Shaun of the Dead had a baby, but it was adopted by Office Space - it would be this film.
Some genuinely funny jokes, well framed 'action' set pieces, and a great range of actual characters beyond the typical stereotypes you tend to see in zombie films.
All of this while gloriously bathing in the campy nature of a budget horror film.
Some genuinely funny jokes, well framed 'action' set pieces, and a great range of actual characters beyond the typical stereotypes you tend to see in zombie films.
All of this while gloriously bathing in the campy nature of a budget horror film.
It hits all the same story beats and a couple of loving nods to the original but there are far more things wrong with this film than there is right with it.
Rather than setting the conflict on Mars, it instead chose a post-nuke world where, for some reason, only the UK and Australia are habitable, connected by a train through the Earth's core (no, seriously). That means the mutants are replaced with poor people, the cool dusk-red settings replaced with bleak ruined or clean white cities, original interesting ideas replaced with stale overdone tropes.
Other than the major plot beats, nothing is endearing about this film. Not the characters, not the dialogue and not the humour. No 'start the reactor', no 'I've got five kids to feed', no 'consider it a divorce'. Instead we get endless barrage of faceless white security robots, unengaging CGI, incomprehensible fight scenes, a rushed bolted-on ending and SO MUCH LENS FLARE!
Worst of all, they cast Bill Nighy, the most British man other than Patrick Stewart, as an American leader of an underground resistance based in London. Go figure.
Rather than setting the conflict on Mars, it instead chose a post-nuke world where, for some reason, only the UK and Australia are habitable, connected by a train through the Earth's core (no, seriously). That means the mutants are replaced with poor people, the cool dusk-red settings replaced with bleak ruined or clean white cities, original interesting ideas replaced with stale overdone tropes.
Other than the major plot beats, nothing is endearing about this film. Not the characters, not the dialogue and not the humour. No 'start the reactor', no 'I've got five kids to feed', no 'consider it a divorce'. Instead we get endless barrage of faceless white security robots, unengaging CGI, incomprehensible fight scenes, a rushed bolted-on ending and SO MUCH LENS FLARE!
Worst of all, they cast Bill Nighy, the most British man other than Patrick Stewart, as an American leader of an underground resistance based in London. Go figure.
Read the title to read the review.
Not much in the way of a script but the visuals are revolutionary (although the myth of people running out of the showing still persists to this day).
Not much in the way of a script but the visuals are revolutionary (although the myth of people running out of the showing still persists to this day).