Sunday 18 September 2011

Apocalypse of the Dead (Serbia-US) - Rubbish


Apocalypse of the Dead 
This movie also known as Zone of the Dead is about an outbreak in the city of Pancevo, where the people in the small town are all infected after an ecological explosion at the train station carrying some bio-chemical contents. During the same time, a police-team lead by 2 Interpol agents, Mortimer Reyes and Mina Milius were escorted a prisoner and chance about the outbreak and chaos. The agents are then forced to join forces and band together with the dangerous prisoner to force their way out from the zombies hordes. 
Review:
This is the 1st of the many movies i have watched over the long weekend (another 3 more to be reviewed later) and it is a movie with the Poor Lighting & Editing, weakest dialog, weakest acting and gosh! it really does look like a C-Grade movie. Perhaps the movie is banking on a well known actor to carry it, Ken Foree who has acted is some Living Dead movies but it failed miserably. Why? 1) The movie style seems like its a cheap European make movie - perhaps because the director are both Serbian, so understandable but please don't make it look damn cheap. 2) Acting is so horrible that you will think that the actors are just some passer-by that the directors picked up from the streets. When i saw an actor portraying as the president speaking slow word-by-word of his dialog, i was going like "OMG! is that guy going to be zombie and speaking some zombie-speaking language that none of us understand or Is this guy having some kind of a bio hazard disease that hinge his language, but no ...that's real acting of a president. So i told myself, perhaps with all the weak dialog and acting, maybe the zombies & action will do a better job since this is after all a zombie movie. But alas, 3) The Action is so unrealistic that it almost seems so laughable. Image a semi-auto discharging endless bullets and worse, the same semi-auto is then passed to another person and again, discharging countless buffets upon hordes of zombies. Some of the zombies are okay but most of the zombies make-up are just cheap make-up with darker eyeshadow and mascara. I am an avid fan of the Living Dead movies, thus the reason why i purchase the movie to watch it but what a waste of time, waste of money and above all, waste of a good entertainment. I might as well pop-in the Zack Snyder Dawn of the Dead (2004). Now, that's an example of how to make a good old zombie movie.    
Verdict:
I give this movie a 1 star out of 5. Totally unwatchable and to be avoided. 

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