Director: Hilton Ariel Ruiz
Year: 2020
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Zombie
Plot:
Stricken with a strange virus, a man and his girlfriend decide to go in search of the potential cure learn that they’re involved in a far deadlier scheme that brings them into contact with not only a mutant strain of zombies but the agents in charge of the operation and must race to stop it from happening.
Review:
This one here wasn’t too great and had few enjoyable elements. Among the more troubling aspects here is the completely confusing and disorienting first half that throws us into the proceedings without much information. Going in blind on this group of mercenaries hunting down a woman on the city streets to a friends’ apartment where she escapes their clutches before turning to this other stranger and his girlfriend making vague threats about being a victim of a conspiracy and some strange virus experiments just doesn’t make sense. With this all being doe with the characters discussing and acting like they’ve been having conversations about previous knowledge, this is a really troubling factor.
As well, the entire first half is extremely troubling with the characters being willfully and blindingly ignorant of what’s going on. Nearly everything that transpires here, from staying at the motel to the chase through the building and eventually meeting up with the traitorous friend by getting the police involved, is all brought about by their own stupidity and stubbornness. Being well aware that they’re sick and showing visible signs of something wrong with them by the information they both drop in conversations, it’s extremely difficult to feel any sympathy for their plight when the entirety of their struggle is due to the inability to do the obvious for asinine reasons. That factor compounds everything, as when they don’t behave reasonably and can’t rationally defend it just makes for a problematic time.
The other troubling aspect to this one is the underwhelming action scenes, on the rare occasions they pop up in the film. There's never much given on the virus so the weird zombie behavior here is quite confusing, where they do or don't seem to notice victims in front of them so there are very few attacks present when they actually appear. The few gunfights here are laughably staged and barely interesting or thrilling, speaking to the general lack of interest when what could've been the fun one is played out as crude animations to hide the gory aftermath. With no traditional feasting scenes with hordes of zombies or even multiple creatures on-screen at once and a series of scenes featuring him using a gun uncharacteristically, there's a ton to dislike about this one. The zombie makeup looks great but that's all that works here.
Overview: 0.5/5
Something that’s really not that appealing on many fronts as there’s a lot of issues and very few positives to counteract those manage to make this one a waste in many regards. Really only see this if you’re curious or a fan of the original adaptation while those who aren’t or turned iff by the flaws should heed extreme caution or outright avoid this one.
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