Who thinks this film was dire?

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I was just going to start a thread titled << This is kind of wretched >>

The action scenes are not imaginative, or built to accelerate suspense. The zombies are a blur. The direction is kind of laughable...like, at one point we see zombies continuing their chase even though they've had huge chunks blown out of their bodies, but then emotional, eulogistic music swells when that one special zombie (you know the one) is shot at the end, and topples over dead.

Everything's just really heavy-handed and yet flaaaaaaaaat in this film. Very very weak, artistically.

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Neither of the two young actors could act for toffee

very good movie 7/10

I tried to like it. But the movie made that hard to do.
The unnecessarily shaky cam prevented to get any overview over what actually happned. I can see that this creates urgency and can hide mediocre make-up effects, but given the production value of this movie, it would not have been necessary, especially not in a way which makes one suspect that the camera operator has parkinson.

Then there are the flaws concerning the internal realism: the janitor gets into every part of a building. Because as we all know, we rely on the knowledge about biohazards of the people who mob our floors. Chemical weapons are not entering a car because it is airtight like a space shuttle. Of course the soldier dies a heroic dead, mocking the people who die of that weapons in real life: with spasms and cramps, wetting themselfs, incapable of even just reacting to the gas in any way apart from dying.

Of course the horror-genre specific stupidity of the characters is present as well. He kisses his wife although he knows that this will infect him. But why not just taking the risk for no reason at all?

The crude attempt of adding suspense by having one specific zombie be at all the important places every single *beep* time didn't do it for me either. Especially letting the camera move over him as if he was somehow cleverly hidden in the subtext felt like an insult.

This was such a pain to watch.

There were parts I liked, and the general idea of creating save zones and showing the rebuilding would have offered more originality than what the movie then went for. I wish they would have explored that part a bit more before going down the road of a very conventional B-movie. The idea of having carriers. This could have led to ethical questions and allowed a depth comparable to the first movie. Instead the audience should somehow just root for the kids to escape in order to create the typical unimaginative and at that point absolutely expected horror ending.

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not really dire, but i can't say i enjoyed it, it had its moments but overall was very forgettable 5/10



so many movies, so little time

28 Days Later 9/10
28 Weeks Later 8/10

:)