Director: Michael Su
Year: 2022
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Zombie
Plot:
Stuck in the middle of a zombie outbreak, a rag-tag team of soldiers is tasked with guarding a crucial bridge that will keep them out of the surrounding area, but when they arrive finds a local group of survivors and a strange beast patrolling the bridge complicating matters as much as the zombie horde.
Review:
This was a highly enjoyable and entertaining zombie effort. One of the better elements here is the simplistic and stripped-down storyline that allows for a nonstop series of action. Initially starting deep in the throes of a zombie outbreak in the community and spending enough time on this, the rest of the first half details the military operation to resemble some kind of authority as they attempt to engage in a series of tactics to do so. Offering the motivation to protect the bridge during the chaos and their quest to follow through on their orders that bring them into contact with the tribe of survivors living alone in the woods after everything that’s happened, it manages to be a highly effecting starting point for the action to come.
This series of action scenes come about rather well due to the constant presence of the zombies. Featuring major swarming scenes in the very beginning with the opening attacks on the military crews or the random civilians that are shown as part of the worldwide apocalypse, there’s a frantic sense of zombie scenes that keep this one quite fun. Once it moves to the bridge and forcing them into defensive tactics to protect the area or encounter the zombie stragglers in the woods around the militia camp, this one turns up the action even more offering a slew of battles that provide some solid zombie effects for the creatures as well as the bloody gore on both the zombies and their victims. These factors are more than enough to give this a lot to like about it.
There isn’t much wrong with this one although it has some minor drawbacks. The main detriment here is the strange fact that, despite being offered as a main driving storyline, the creature that’s a part of the film appears as a distraction more than anything. Keeping it mysterious not only in origin but also its appearance means we get very little about what it looks like or even where it’s from since there’s so little time devoted to it. Even the final design is a bit mysterious due to the shaky camera work obscuring a lot of the scene overall for the one scene it’s involved in, and that leads to the other drawback with its budget showing at times. With the wonky camera work, one-location guerilla-style feel, and one-shot guest stars giving it away, these factors provide the few issues that bring this down.
Overview: ***.5/5
A highly entertaining indie zombie effort with a lot to like, the few drawbacks present here don’t really bring this down too much which makes this one of the better entries in the style. Give this a look if you’re a fan of the style attempted here, enjoy zombie films in general, or are followers of the creative crew while most others that don’t appreciate the approach taken here should heed caution.
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