Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??
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 MoreI have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.
View MoreStory: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
Following a viral outbreak in Taiwan, a woman and her daughter are forced along with a group of police officers and gangsters when a horde of zombies overruns the city and makes them have to rely on each other in order to survive the relentless and ravenous beings.This was a highly enjoyable and fun zombie effort. As is the case with so many zombie efforts, the fact that there's so much action in here is one of its main factors and generates the most amount of fun here. The first encounter in the supermarket after awakening from the accident is so much fun as the different encounters with the swarms feasting on the remains of patrons and finding herself being chased out of the store makes for a creepy start with the appropriately gory and bloodied bodies found in the aisles adding to the fun. The scenes of the SWAT team getting attacked by the gangsters in a blazing gunfight before finding the zombies drawn to the gunfire and attacking the two groups in a mass panic, while the shorter attacks featuring the reporter being chased away or the zombies appearing in the club where the tied-up victims are stuck together all give this one quite the fun, fast and frantic start. By focusing on the efforts of the team to not only battle the zombies in the streets and keeping the civilians safe, there's plenty of great battles and gunfights in a large part of the film showing everyone attempting to get away from the creatures which gives off some rather fun scenes in the streets showing the survivors running into the hordes and forcing them into extreme measures to take care and avoid them, the plethora of gunfights to emerge from the creatures getting in and the groups' escape attempt to get out of the bunker alive as there's a nice battle to get to the truck amid the zombies converging on them trying to load the victims inside while the hand-to-hand martial arts required to hold them off adds another layer to the fun action quotient of this one. Likewise, the finale where the few remaining participants are trying to stay alive in the bunker where the creatures have trapped them and force them to rather fun barricades to hold off the zombies as they try to make their escapes gives this a kind of frantic high-energy finale to make for a stellar finish to this one. Along with the rather strong violence throughout here and the great zombie make-up, there's a lot of fun to be had here with this one although there are a few minor problems. The biggest issue here is the fact that the films' diversions into the torture dungeon where the one man has the others tied up and goes on raping them doesn't really need to be there other than to interject some sleaze and dirtiness into the film which didn't need it. They serve no purpose and have no overall reason to be there so it has some real problems being here. The only other issue is the film tries to go for poignancy in nearly all the relationships between everyone here and the melodramatic tone is quite draining overall since very little of it registers after it's all said and done as everything is like that. Otherwise, there's not much else wrong here.Rated Unrated/R: Extreme Graphic Violence, Extreme Graphic Language, Full Nudity, Rape and children-in-jeopardy.
View MoreOkay, I'm a big fan of Asian cinema and also a zombie movie fanatic. When i first watched the trailer I was anticipating what seemed to the first high budget Asian zombie movie. I won't get into too much detail about all the misses that made no sense, I'll leave it up to the people out there brave enough to spend 2 hours of finding all the faults of the film. What to expect? - A lot of A slash B cup boobies. If you caught a glimpse of the trailer, yes there are a few. - Not being able to tell the difference between the female characters since the camera doesn't focus on anyone's face for over 4 seconds. - Not knowing what is happening half the time because the scenes are cut all over the place. - Expect to not be shocked by sudden zombie attacks because of the poor editing. - Sound effects used in movies from the 80's. - Ethnic diversity is always a bonus, especially stereotyping the African American as the athletic jock that the Asians use to flip through all the zombies. Yes, this movie is a disaster. But impressive for the budget that they had. Fundamentals and basics with camera, sound, editing are a mess. But must say, out of the 5 Asian zombie movies I have seen. This is hands down number 1. Imagine the quality of the rest.
View MoreTo begin, I am pretty surprised by the number of topless scenes in the film. Hmm, in my humble opinion it didn't go too well with the zombies film. The plot is shallow and lacked conviction. The zombies are turned in split seconds which is kind of fast, isn't it? The zombies make-up are sub standard. The speed the zombies are rotting, guess it wouldn't last a day; should see more skeletons instead.I watched it in theater and I feel I didn't get my $$ worth. Kinda low budget production film. Nevertheless, it's a good zombie start for Mandarin films. Hope it gets better on the next zombie film and no sequel please.Wait for DVD, I would recommend.
View MoreI love zombie movies, but it was hard to find good zombie movie from Asia. This one is good, but there is two thing which I want to share with you.1-tipicle Chinese stile movie- mix of saw, rec, biohazard etc dressed up with new CG technique. No originality at for scenes.2-subliminal anti japan propaganda- lot of money come from Chinese government so its normal, but lot of racism in Chinese language. I hate political indication in movies...watch it if you like zombie movies, its good for spent 80min during weekend night(but don't spend money for rent)
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