Jour zéro

There's nothing much to expect from zombie movies, even from the most popular titles such as Dawn of the Dead. But I was pleasantly surprised watching this. The action scenes kept me entertained. The exceptional acting of the main characters: Emon the dad, Sheryl the mom, Jane the daughter and Timoy the comic relief / best friend kept me invested and routing for them, that they will somehow survive their ordeal. The movie had the proper amount of scary parts, adrenaline-pumped action scenes, funny and also touching moments. It still is not at par with Hollywood or Korean zombie movies, but it was pretty close. Good job to the cast and crew!

First off, i can definitely say I can easily write 3 negative points about the film. But I can also write 7 good things about the movie!

I especially love the cinematography and the fight-for-survival scenes when Emon had a high-caliber weapon, a 45 caliber, and a knife. Also worth the mention was the ax scenes but would question the writer why quickly leave the weapon? Haha

I would've loved it if it happened in a more affluent condo or housing unit. I get it why it was set on the set building but would love to add some international appeal especially if they are planning to have a sequel. Like Emon didnt turn or fully turn into a zombie?

Some other suggestions would be, if I know the main bite points are arms, i would have a scene wrapping something that would prevent a bite.

But overall it was fun to watch except those times where zombies can't see but not applicable on some scenes.

I hope, if there is a sequel/prequel/spin-off, they would learn from good zombie movies. But overall, I like it to deserve a 7 out of 10 stars. Glad Philippine cinema is improving. Kudos to the whole team!

Overall I love the action scenes. Probably less drama from some of the other characters.

I did not see something exciting about this movie from the time I watched it. Yeah, cool concept, a dad broke out of the jail with a comic relief character (he deserve better roles, imo) travels to get back to his family. Cool character + comic relief is kinda overused so I hope we better change that.

I believe it could've been better as the start of the movie did not explain how the outbreak occured. It failed to create and narrate better characters that should have personality. The story should be explored more too, I believe there should be more, since I was trapped into one plot of escaping.

Movie had some typical Filipino drama elements in it like like the SFX and whatnot, what I do like about the movie however, is how it utilizes the slum areas giving it a claustrophobic thrill. It would be nice to have some cutscenes explaining or showing where the infection came from. What I do not like is the lack of locations and character introduction. The fact that the zombie sound effects sound similar to the ones they used in Call of Duty is pretty intresting to say the least and the scenes where the characters die off could've been more dramatic if they utilized a way to hook the audience in the beginning. Thats all for the personal bits, I do love Brandon Vera's acting here, it felt like The Rock or Dave Bautista. Fantastic approach to a zombie film, love their little effects and details. Thats pretty much it. I do apologize for the amateur review, i'm not very good at english..

This movie is almost a perfect scene for scene ripoff of Aliens, transformed into a zombie apocalypse movie. They copied phrases and events liberally.

Other than that, it's just your typical lame zombie movie with maddening poor decisions by the characters, along with zombie that are either highly motivated to take out a character, or strangely reticent.

Watch it if you want the humor of predicting what will happen next according to the Aliens movie storyline.

I was able to watch the hold thing, despite the low production quality and poor acting and horrendous dubs into English.

Good luck, and may the zombies have mercy on your soul.