Apocalypse Z (Zombie Massacre)
- Fundamentals, reception.
- Italian live action feature length film, 2013, NR, 90 minutes, action, horror.
- IMDB: 2.2/10.0 from 805 audience ratings. Estimated budget, 1 million USD.
- Rotten Tomatoes: 'No reviews yet,' and 0% wanted to see it from 27 user ratings.
- Netflix: 2.5/5.0 from 10,127 audience ratings.
- Written and directed by: Luca Boni and Marco Ristori.
- Starring: Christian Boeving as Jack Stone, Mike Mitchell as John 'Mad Dog' McKellen, Tara Cardinal as Eden Shizuka.
- Setup and Plot
- The US military tried to make a super soldier. (The film lost one star of five, there.) As a side effect, a bad strain of communicable toxin was released near a town in Eastern Europe, Romania specifically. (Spare me.)
- A small group of rejects are sent in to clean up the mess. They soon see that they are considered expendable. They encounter the daughter of the biologist who created the mess in the first place.
- Can the US military be thwarted and the world saved?
- Conclusions
- Re-release of Zombie Massacre (2010) after the huge success of Brad Pitt's tremendously better zombie picture, World War Z.
- One line summary: Repackaged zombie schlock; almost any zombie film is better.
- One star of five. The bad cliche density is high.
- Scores
- Cinematography: 8/10 OK, mostly. At the end, the worst fake breasts I've seen in a zombie film.
- Sound: 6/10 If one is going to dub certain actors, at least hire a good voice actor, and give them reasonable lines.
- Acting: 1/10 Some human beings showed up, hit their marks, and read their lines, so I guess there was some acting. Accents are all over the map. Some actors are dubbed, badly. The samurai lady looks like she's never picked up a sword. The sniper is using a single-shot bolt action rifle from mid-20th century, and using it badly compared to the legend of his accomplishments.
- Screenplay: 1/10 Terrible dialog, not much of a story. Absurd origin tale of the outbreak. Cliche ridden.
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