FPS: First Person Shooter

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.

This movie can actually be summarized with a single word: no!

Actually I will be gracious here and give it three words: no, just no!

Well, let's be fair and honest, "FPS: First Person Shooter" didn't really have the odds in its favor, now did it? I mean, a movie made like a First Person Shooter styled game, just how thrilling and entertaining can that be? Well, it might have had a chance if it wasn't so ridiculously laughable.

First of all, you have to suffer through the worst graphics ever in that abysmal intro. Why did they even bother with that? Was it meant as a joke? It was just painful to watch, especially since even the dialogue was equally bad.

Then the movie finally started, and it just slumped to an even lower place. I actually turned it off after this point. I just managed to watch like a couple of minutes of the actual live action movie, after having suffered through that grievous animated intro.

Everything about this movie was just abysmal. The acting, the cinematography, the plot, the concept. Probably even the special effects, but to be honest I don't know, because I gave up on the movie before it got to a point where they used special effects.

"FPS: First Person Shooter" will be quickly forgotten, like a dirty, shameful secret. And I have no intentions of returning to watch the rest of it, because it just lacked anything that even remotely resembled entertainment or appeal.

A bottom-scraping one out of ten stars for "FPS: First Person Shooter". Do yourself a favor and avoid this one.

FPS is a movie inspired by fast paced 90s shooters but with the slow pacing of horror games. Watch Hardcore Henry if you want to see this concept done right.

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.

I had no idea what to expect from a movie called First Person Shooter, so I went in with no expectation, simply waiting to see a cheap movie and nothing more.

Was it cheap? Yep. Was it bad? Well, define bad. The camera work was quite good for what it meant to be, the lines, most of them, borrowed from other movies, but used properly. Had a gag there. The story? Typical zombie flick. The intro of the movie, laughed out loud, the rest, exactly like an old school horror game that maybe, moves too slowly sometimes.

Many good references to other movies and games, will put a smile on your face for sure, of course, not as a horror movie but as a indie little project that worked alright in the end. It really did act like a game, considering this is what it aimed for, I think it managed to hit the mark.

Thus, First Person Shooter is simply a project, a beginning for someone's career and from this alone, my opinion is that we could expect great things.

Cheers!