Dead Again

In a quiet rural English community, a zombie apocalypse is unleashed and the various locals are forced to deal with it.

It's an English zombie comedy. So my initial thought is Shaun of the Dead and this is nothing like that. It's nowhere near that level. The comedy is rather flat. If it's anything, it's more like the Night of the Living Dead but still not as good. It's really an uninspired indie made by a run-of-the-mill film group. It's a good step above student films but it lacks any aspect which could make this good.

Few guys got together and one of them said "Hey I've got an idea. Let's butcher Sean Of The Dead, Hot Fuzz and World's End all in one go".

This atrocity is the result.

Ok, so lets get things right: when judging a movie, especially an underground one, please take the budget in consideration. Clearly this one had perhaps a few thousands ready to spend, but I doubt there was any more.

Thus the final product is weird and divided: a first half consisting in nothing more but dialogue with some humor every now and then, and a second one that transformed into a shooter for some reason. Sure zombie movies are cheap and easy to do, they also threw the abandoned building in the mix, so that saved a lot for location, some cheap blood special effects and that was about all.

Anyway, hard to watch, impossible to recommend, it is a movie that tried to take itself serious and perhaps that was its biggest flaw. It just didn't work out, sorry.

Cheers!

I will not waste any more time on this drivil just to pass on a message, do not waste your time. It is one of those movies that are actually painful to watch. I do not like putting actors down, it is a difficult profession but the acting in this movie is just not good, not good at all. it is as if the actors were not trying and the result is everything else is effected, don't bother, there is nothing redeemable about this movie.

I like bad films. I have a huge bad film collection. The best are the ones that rise above the badness. This did not rise, it flatlined.

The entire plot of the film could have played out in a 15 minute short.

They should have had the person who edited the trailer edit the entire film. Even with better editing I'm not sure it could have been saved.

I'd say it was...

80% nothing happening... 10% what?

10% meh.

0% worth it.

Most of the dialog was tedious.

Through the runtime I found myself asking, "Why am I still watching this?"

Still, I continued to watch, hoping for something to happen that would make it all worth it. Then the credits rolled.

Rats.

The two stars are because I liked the two cop characters - mostly - and wish they were in a different, better film.