Overrated

One of my all time favorites.

Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

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

I feel sorry for this movie, it only got a measly 2.7 in average. A fate that I do not think it deserves. Many of the posts about this movie has been way to harsh in judging it according to me. Sure it is a B-movie, but what do you expect from a low budget zombie movie? I think this movie has elements that could have been done better with a little more budget in the special FX department. BUT it has one thing that many other zombie movies lack, and that is consistency.The world they presented to us seemed solid and plausible in the light of the facts stated in the beginning of the movie. The plot stayed inside its own boundaries throughout the entire length of the movie. Admirable for a movie of this kind. Not the best zombie movie I have ever seen, but far from the worst. I am proud to award this movie with a vote that is more than twice of its current average. That should bump up the stats a little.

Having viewed some truly awful zombie movies, I thought the rating on "Quick" pretty much summed up what I was going to get. After a watch though, I actually kind of liked this movie. Post Apocalyptic zombie-hunting cowboys fighting over bags of severed fingers with plans to infect new towns for job security. I thought the second half lagged a bit, but then I listened to the commentary and found out that they lost their secondary actor 1/3 of the way through production and had to rewrite and ad-lib the remainder of the film completely on the fly. We are treated to cow-bikers, zombie chumming, and good old-fashioned western vengeance. It does have issues with pacing, and some of the effects are lackluster, but I had fun with it, and at least it wasn't just a dozen people arguing with each other locked in a basement like so many other of its' ilk.

I just finished watching The Quick and the Undead, and loved it. I love westerns and zombie films, and this is a pretty good mixture of both. It's a modern western, but it still works. Not the highest budgeted movie, but neither were many of the great ones.It had a good amount of gore in it, a cool mixture of weapons, and the main character had an awesome outfit. It wasn't a comedy by far, but definitely had humorous moments, including a small shout-out to the original Day of the Dead. Some of the shots were similar to other movies too.A couple things could've made this movie better though, including better acting and better cinematography. Most of the characters, especially the main character, delivered very stale lines and many of the scenes held onto one shot for a bit too long.Those things aren't enough to make the movie unwatchable though, it was good enough in other areas to make up for it.

In my current quest to seek out and view every zombie movie ever made, when I saw this on the shelf at Blockbuster, free rental coupon in hand, I figured, what the hey? Guess what? I was pleasantly surprised. And NO, I had NOTHING to do with the making of this film! I never even HEARD of it before I saw it in the store! OK, so it's obviously an indie flick, and it rips off from just about every other zombie and/or western ever made. But I was intrigued by a future populated with zombies, and the remaining survivors resorting to living like the old West, complete with hats and six-shooters. Only problem I had was the plot twist--at first, I thought, Ingenious! But then, I'm like, OK, this is supposed to be the post-apocalyptic future, where zombies take over (ala "Land of the Dead"). So if they're running out of zombies, why aren't things getting back to some semblance of normal?? The acting WAS kinda shallow as well--I kept looking at the hero as a poor-man's Hugh Jackman (leather, scruffy, smokes a stogie, tough guy with a heart of gold, that kinda thing). And the bad guy (Blythe) reminded me of a young Dennis Hopper. But for a free rental, it wasn't that awful. A pretty good plot, a few clever camera tricks, half-way decent zombie gore (without going overboard)--not bad for a free rental.