While this movie isn't bad, there is a lot of implausible stupidity from the characters in it. The family at the beginning - why, in the middle of a zombie apocalypse would you go out in the dark to see if you can get yourself eaten - oh and while your at it leave the ruddy back door open so zombies can wander in and devour your family? Hmmm...maybe it's just me, but I think I would keep the doors locked, turn the lights off, keep quiet and hide in the loft till morning.
The reserve army base - 'oops I left the main gate open'. What?! Another big stretch of plausibility was when the army guys were on the run afterwards. One guy turns round to the zombies at his rear and starts firing an automatic weapon, despite the fact that his comrades are clearly running across his line of fire! I know they are meant to be only reservists, but come on! Later on we get more stupidity when they have the drop on Goke's bandits by the campfire. Leean is on the floor and therefore not in immediate danger of being hit by a stray bullet. The sensible tactic here would have been a quick, waist height sweep of automatic fire across the campfire to take down as many bandits as possible while they are unaware of the soldiers presence. What does our hero commander do? orders a single sniper shot which kills one bandit and alerts all the others who star shooting back! Nice training there, numpty.
My biggest gripe throughout this film though, is the fact that we are meant to believe that in the middle of zombie and bandit attacks, etc, some fool stands there filming it instead of helping friends, family or comrades (or maybe just running away). Hey, I'm sorry but if someone was eating, shooting or molesting a member of my team, bottom of my list of priorities would be making a record for future posterity, or a winning entry on 'You've been framed'.
Too many scenes were shot in the near complete dark, lit by only a flashlight or a night camera - this just made things confusing rather than scary.
All in all, not a bad movie, but could have been a lot better with a bit more thought.
The reserve army base - 'oops I left the main gate open'. What?! Another big stretch of plausibility was when the army guys were on the run afterwards. One guy turns round to the zombies at his rear and starts firing an automatic weapon, despite the fact that his comrades are clearly running across his line of fire! I know they are meant to be only reservists, but come on! Later on we get more stupidity when they have the drop on Goke's bandits by the campfire. Leean is on the floor and therefore not in immediate danger of being hit by a stray bullet. The sensible tactic here would have been a quick, waist height sweep of automatic fire across the campfire to take down as many bandits as possible while they are unaware of the soldiers presence. What does our hero commander do? orders a single sniper shot which kills one bandit and alerts all the others who star shooting back! Nice training there, numpty.
My biggest gripe throughout this film though, is the fact that we are meant to believe that in the middle of zombie and bandit attacks, etc, some fool stands there filming it instead of helping friends, family or comrades (or maybe just running away). Hey, I'm sorry but if someone was eating, shooting or molesting a member of my team, bottom of my list of priorities would be making a record for future posterity, or a winning entry on 'You've been framed'.
Too many scenes were shot in the near complete dark, lit by only a flashlight or a night camera - this just made things confusing rather than scary.
All in all, not a bad movie, but could have been a lot better with a bit more thought.