Zombie Fight Club

Films without plots can be done well given good direction and acting. Well-written films can be good despite bad directors and actors. Zombie Fight Club has no good element in its production.

"So bad it's good" doesn't even fly with this film. The more-American-than-American accents provide the bulk of the humor. The film's focus on the innate evil of humanity (its only constant) oozes away any value a good riffing might redeem it with.

Zombie Fight Club directly takes elements of The Raid and The Walking Dead and removes the elements of 'Redemption'. Instead, the martial arts police are dirty cops and the civilians are plagued by a distinctly East Asian pathology. The crux of Zombie Fight Club is the argument that humankind is innately evil, and, pushed to the limit, will gleefully discard its visage of goodness. Even the two protagonists, who bear a transparent semblance of morality, lack any dignity.

Romero's legacy is dismantled and digitally spit on by Zombie Fight Club. If you want to enjoy a poor zombie movie, stick to films like Redneck Zombies. In the very least, the garage special effects will be more entertaining than Zombie Fight Club's digital massacre.

The Plot.

It's the end of the century at a corner of the city in a building riddled with crime.

Everyone in the building has turned into zombies.

After Jenny's boyfriend is killed in a zombie attack, she faces the challenge of surviving in the face of adversity.

In order to stay alive, she struggles with Andy to flee danger.

Strange zombie movie that's all over the place but no where near as bad as that idiot on IMDb said.

Break down: The first half is rocking.

The second half is disjointed at best.

The direction sucks for the duration. But for some reason you cannot take your eyes of this film.

I give t a six for chutzpah.

I gave this movie 3 stars. All 3 were for the hot Asian girls. The story and video game special effects were pretty bad.

noticed zombie in the title so i had to watch it.

a building riddled with crime.

police on a sketchy mission just shutdown the elevator.

most of the people from the building turned into zombies.

and in the middle of it all is jenny.

she faces the challenge of staying alive.

with danger around every corner and behind every door.

will she make it? or join the rest of the pack.

-------------------------------------------------------.

feels like an action movie with an attempt on horror.

i'm glad they didn't go overboard on the comedy factor.

as for the zombies getting shot and the blood splashing everywhere.

they actually did a nice job on that.

sure can be better but not bad at all!.

all the other graphics are just bad and worse.

some decent acting and some not worth writing home about.

but overall...this still is a great movie.

compared to "rec" i would say about just as bad.

reason...this1 got some bad bad graphics...

rec got screwed by the whole bible thing.

A building riddled with a menagerie of working girls, criminals and loners find the corridors of their apartment block infested with zombies.

Oh my have things have progressed since Junk Shiryōgari (2000) and Versus (2000) (certainly in the effects department), Zombie Fight Club (2014) is better than the influx of recent DTV walking dead movies globally produced, in contrast to most Asian dead movies its light on humour, tonally it's reminiscent of The Horde (2009), Rammbock/Berlin Dead (2010) mixed with Joe Chien's own twisted incoherent Zombie 108 (2012).

Chien's zombie offering is packed with action, actually wall to wall bloodshed, excellent make-up effects and an abundance of practical and CGI blood which puts some American modest budget zombie films to shame. It's colour palette is dark, accompanied by a pumping soundtrack, it's undeniably fast paced. Oddly it inexplicably interchanges between English and Mandarin and it's a film of unorthodox two halves with no third act.

When it does slowdown it has a fistful of creepy moments but these are few and far between as buxom beauty Jenny played by Jessica Cambensy witnesses her boyfriend, his crew of rappers and strippers come toe to toe with growing army of zombies. After a flash forward a year after the outbreak Jenny has gone all zombie killer sporting a new hair cut and an even tighter costume (yes there's the shameless objectification of women but no more than The Resident Evil franchise tries to gloss over).

What it lacks in plot it makes up for with its kick-ass female and male characters, soldiers and loads of zombie kills, impalement, bullets and action setups. Yes the characters are at times cartoonish and its gratuitous but it's a solid addition to the Asian live action zombie market, if you're in to it.