Sorry, this movie sucks

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Doesn't really do anything new with the Zombie genre.It's the same old story about few survivors coming together to survive, and form a bond while they're at it. Even ends with a fairy-tale Disney Ending, to keep everybody happy.The only problem is, the survivors are as interesting as watching paint dry on a wall, same goes for the zombies who occasionally attack and never really do any damage. Only interesting and creepy bit comes with a "slight" twist to the zombies through an old woman zombie. But that's it. Overall, I was disappointed. Acting is OK and it would've worked fine in a movie with better script and more going on than just a farm the director rented for the weekend shoot. Could've pulled it off easily with a low budget, like Shaun of the Dead did.

Although low-budget zombie movies are ten a penny these days and, it's fair to say, the majority of them are absolute rubbish, STATE OF EMERGENCY offers something a little different. For a start, it looks like a professional, well-made movie despite the low budget; it has great production values and it avoids being cheesy for the most part.Of course, there's a flip side to this coin, and the main detraction with the film is that it's incredibly slow. There are lots and lots of long, drawn-out sequences where the protagonist just barricades himself inside a building and waits...and waits...and waits. Some viewers might find this off-putting, although I found that the tension levels were high, which kept me watching.The acting isn't bad, and pretty good for a B-movie, and as mentioned the technical values are decent. The zombies themselves are fast-moving and ultra-aggressive, much like the ones in 28 DAYS LATER, and the scare sequences are well handled. STATE OF EMERGENCY is far from perfect, and one of the disappointments is that the ending just fizzles out instead of bangs, but in a sea of trash watching it is a nice surprise.

While looking for something apocalyptic to watch, I stumbled on this and, after reading the many positive reviews, decided to access it on Netflix. Boy did I make a mistake. The reviews are correct, this isn't a zombie movie, as the people who have been exposed to a chemical leak are just rage filled (sound familiar) lunatics who only want to kill. I really don't know what movie (which this barely qualifies as) were watching, but it couldn't have been this. A derivative of 28 Days Later, this film is boring, unoriginal and has an incredibly lame ending. I don't even think this would count as a film school project. Just poor execution all around, and not one original idea in it. For an apocalyptic completist only.

Chaos consumes a small town when a chemical facility explodes releasing a deadly toxin. Moments after the leak, the town's residents show signs of mutation, causing the military to quarantine the area leaving any survivors helpless and trapped inside. The story follows Jim, a young man isolated within the red zone, as he eludes flesh eating zombies in an attempt to win back his freedom.I found this movie very hard to follow. And, yes, it IS just a zombie film, so what's to follow? But they set it up so that the exposition is very slow and doesn't keep your attention. I had a hard time trying to figure out why I should keep watching. There was very little zombie action until well into the movie. I'm still not sure where the main character lives. Sometimes it looks like a prison or hospital and other times it looks like a home. .There's no explanation how he gets up on a barn roof -- why would you go there with a ladder when the zombies could just follow you? How did the padlock open? By itself? Why doesn't he want to turn on the light when he hears noises? Why does he think the zombies understand English? Why does he run AWAY from his rifle when he needs it? Why when he finally gets the rifle, does he not load it? There are lots of little things like this that make no sense and causes one to lose interest because it's poor writing. Another example, he fires three shots, kills a zombie and suddenly the phone rings. He answers it and a stranger says "are you the guy in the barn? We heard shots and I tried every number in the book to get you." What? You called 3 seconds after the shots were fired! You had no time to look up anything. Nobody finds this weird? And the guy doesn't even know his name but somehow got his phone number!This could have been a really good film if it was better written and better directed -- especially the writing. It's very very poorly written. The acting inst bad, but the writing is horrendous.Also, the print I saw was filled with very tiny red specs throughout. Not sure if that was intentional, but it was annoying.