FPS: First Person Shooter

With a massive viral outbreak striking the world, a man enters a hospital looking for his pregnant wife only to find it overrun by the deformed zombies of a deranged mad scientist looking to institute a new world order through the virus implanted in the creatures and forces him to battle the creatures to save her.

This was an incredibly enjoyable effort. The film's at it's best when it delves into the non-stop action and over-the-top gore which is nearly constant throughout here. With the premise set up like a video-game where the constant need to move forward and meeting up with new foes creates a breakneck pace to the film, and that leads into numerous encounters with the zombies and other deformed creatures at play inside the hospital. The sweeping camera movements to denote the weaponry being utilized in each of the confrontations here add to the unease experienced walking down the hallways waiting for the various encounters to strike generates far more suspense as well as action. Due to this setup, the film's continuous encounters provide all sorts of fine gore and bloodshed. Whacking them over the heads with chain-mail fists, hammers or close-range gunshots leaving massive entry wounds offers up plenty of fine bloodshed here, much like the decayed and deformed look of the zombies. They look quite disgusting with the wrinkled skin, monstrous fangs and ferocious movements which manage to create a nice imposing group of villains to get through, and when added to the other kills here involving ripping out intestines to strangle people, sliced at with cleavers or brutalized with crowbars manages to bring out some fine make-up and gore-gags. As well, the film scores quite a lot with it's absurdly cheesy and fun setup. The video-game footage at the beginning detailing the origins of the infection and how to spot the symptoms offers a goofy introduction to things, and the start-up to the mission playing out like a video-game is quite hilarious as the notion of treating each level of the hospital like a video-game creates plenty of silly moments within the straightforward storyline. Added to this cheese are the hilarious one-liners and move-quotes used to explain the fun he's having during the various encounters that provide some chuckles here and there, this one features a lot of rather enjoyable and likable elements. There are a few minor flaws featured here. The main problem is the utterly unbelievable manner of this one using the letters and notes left behind to denote storyline beats and points that flesh out what's going on. This is a necessary factor of saying what's going on but these are so clumsily inserted into the film as he finds them at just the right moments to give him the next clues to complete a mission and just feel so awkward and unnatural as if anyone would leave such evidence laying around the hospital for anyone to find. Some of the game-play simulations look incredibly shoddy, which is to be expected for this type of film but there's no excuse for the switchover to actual video-game style for the massive swarm of zombies being gunned down which is a huge cheat. These are what hold this one down the most.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language and Extreme Graphic Violence.

... or at least seen in parts.

Movies shot in first person need more than a hand holding a gun and lots of bad animated blood. They need some more action than a protagonist sneaking through a location and having "fights" with some cheap looking monsters.

Don't get me wrong: cheap must not equal bad. But this time it does.

For me the movie lacked some speed, some action (blood and gore is not action), and a bit more of a "plot" would not have hurt. I got so bored watching this piece of wasted time, I fast forwarded through only to find out that it goes on and on and on like it started until the end. Impossible to spoil it.

This is the first movie I could not finish, and usually I watch movies from start to end, no matter how bad they were.

The concept is simple but sounded fun, but theres a lot that went wrong and a only a few things that went right. The script is terribly paced, the games this is inspired by came from the 90s didnt even have cutscenes or anything much of a story, but they were more interesting, because they changed things up and they were faster, the levels took about 10minutes, 10min in this movie is a timespan where you move maybe 4 rooms foward and find one meaningless item. I have a high tolerance to trash if its either intentionally well done trash (although thats very hard), or sincere attempts that really tried doing something right, but failed due to a lack of money or the necessary knowledge on how to make a film. This movie has a lot of things that could be polished and some could have easily been better with a little more effort, they didnt even have to hire anyone for some of those things. It comes of extremely lazy. An example is that our protagonist finds a pc and as easter egg it has the game-influences (doom, blood, quake) on the desktop, but they are just icons of EMPTY folders. They could have easily gotten the original icons, either install these games that now cost as much as a coffee, or just download the icons and set them as desktop shortcut. Thats something that takes maybe 10mins. The voice of our player seems unfitting as well, it sounds like a 60 year old smoker, not some young badass. Every computer graphic looks out of place, why would a corpse turn into pixels? The opening doesnt look like an old game, it looks like a terrible indie game, trying to be old, but old games had great limitations on the veriety and gradients of colors, just put your graphics in a lower bit-rate and you got it, simple. The style also is ugly and doesnt fit the games they take as influences, none of them were side-scrolers, how can you mess this up? Then it has a HUD like a remastered game, but "autosave" and "loading", etc. is very pixelated, it just doesnt make sense, why not keep the movie entirely in this "realistic" version and keep the pixel stuff away? Because the realistic stuff is what works, the camera-movement, how the weapons/hands swipe across the screen and all those things, they are the things that work. The other thing that works well is the sound-design, its actually pretty good and very fitting. Turn a few knobs and i think this could actually be a fun experience, but like this its a bit pitiful, still worth a watch, if only to see what can go wrong with this simple premisse.

I never thought I could keep watching this movie. But after 10 minutes I wanted to see what will happen at the end. It reminded me many scenes from the old indie FPS games specially Blood (1997). Blood was my favorite game along with Quake 1 and 2 and Doom series and that amazing Wolfenstein 3D (1992). It was a cheap movie but worth to watch. The filming location was creepy as hell and the ending was unpredictable at-least to me. The guy's voice also was also very similar to the Blood's one. If you like to be reminded about the old good times you were playing these games it is a good movie to watch. I am expecting to see more from the creator. He definitely showed some talents making this movie.

I liked all the old Games a lot, this movie had a lot of references i liked. The German voice of the main character was appealing. It was much like a small System Shock. The Camera work was nice and well done, i liked every bit of it, not a bad B-Movie, compared to Boll this is genius production. It keeps all the promises it makes, and really, i was very entertained. The old hospital was a great location which was very well modified to resemble a apocalyptic scenario. Compliment to Mask, Camera Man, Editor and Production Crew who made a very well movie out of a tight budged. For fans of old games and fans of zombie movies only the combination of both will enjoy this greatly, but i did and therefore i should give 7/10.