Dreadfully Boring
n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.
View MoreAmazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.
View MoreMostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.
View MoreAs others have noted Outpost 2 starts out with interesting opening, a bit of back story to the first enjoyable outing. Of course this is solid B Movie territory.Alas momentum is soon lost as the movie sags with a depressingly predictable script swaying into ridiculous cliché, (Nazi hag Zombie ?!) The first Outpost worked because it had some genuine suspense, decent horror and likable non cardboard characters. if your a fan of the first and or the sub-sub genre of Nazi super Zombie it's probably still worth a watch, it looks well and does flirt with interesting moments.Early John Carpenter this is not a real shame as the original Outpost certainly was close. The awful poster sums it up. Misjudged.
View MoreBigger is better? Well I didn't find that to be the case with "Outpost II: Black Sun". Director Steve Barker follows up his 2008 action-horror "Outpost" with this sequel which actually expands on the original's concept (Nazi, occult and experimenting) and doesn't just limit its action to the bunker. It loses its simple set-up, which was atmospheric and eerie with a ghost-like tale to its novelty, replacing it with bloodier attacks and kinetic actions where our zombie Nazi storm- troopers lumber through a warn-torn Eastern Europe. The sequel pretty much follows on from the previous feature, as a NATO task force is sent to Eastern Europe where an unstoppable killing force is murdering everything in its path. Lena a Nazi hunter is on the trail of notorious war criminal Klausener, which sees her heading to Eastern Europe where she meets up with Wallace an engineer. In all it's a okay follow up that doesn't limit itself, but adds more to the formula than simply rehashing what has gone before it. The threat isn't confined this time around and there are few surprises. Some motivations of certain players can be blurry with how the plot develops, but it did become somewhat weary the further along it went with a lazily dismal ending to cap it off. The performances are durable with Richard Coyle and Catherine Steadman in the leads, but I didn't find any of the characters, especially their support to stand out. Barker seems to replace the slow-burn suspense of the original for brutality. It might not be as rough around the edges, but the action did feel choppy and still have that repetitiveness that lingered in the original. An atmosphere is created bringing out a grim apocalyptic air and the dead zombie soldiers (which the make-up FX is strongly detailed) have a lumbering appearance that can break out into a vicious intensity. But here don't have that ghost ability to teleport and to come out of the shadows. David Gant looks creepy as the dead Nazi general Klausener.
View MoreAfter reading several negative reviews on this title I decided to check it out. I must disagree with the critics yet again. The main character Lena is explained in good detail she is a war criminal fighter captures terrorists,Nazi's and so fourth. To say that an audience dosen't care about her is a mistake and big one at that. Secondly Wallace is obviously the bad guy and that comes out at the end his had a devious plan all along to get the most valuable piece of the machine and work his way into creating a zombie army of his own after Klassener dies. The action scenes weren't something ad great as transformers but it was like Call Of Duty black ops zombies gameplay only with a big story all it's own. Try to pay close attention to films before jumping the gun and writing negative lies about them.
View MoreIt's as if the film-makers had been watching the first movie and learned from their mistakes and decided on doing everything different and better this time. And the end result is not a great but a definitely watchable movie! More fun, more gore, more zombies, a better pace, better characters. This feels more like a movie that knew what it was doing! It's being more a straightforward horror flick, involving zombies and Nazi's. It's simple but ultimately also effective.Another thing that had been improved is its look. It's not as low budget looking as its predecessor and simply has a good look and atmosphere to it, that suits the movie its story. It also definitely was a better choice to let this movie take place at more than just one location. It also helps to give the movie some more pace and to help to keep things more fresh and interesting.Horror/zombie fans will definitely be more pleased with this movie than with its predecessor. Not that its being the best the genre has to offer but it at least offers plenty of fun and some gore. For them this movie is definitely being a recommendable one but to most others it remains nothing more than just a very average genre entry, that doesn't have an awful lot to offer for them in it.6/10 http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/
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