2/10
There have been better and there have been worse *Spoiler Alert*
29 April 2019
Warning: Spoilers
I love zombie movies and I take the worse ones with a grain of salt in terms by accepting the premise and concentrating on the acting. Now to my review of Isle of the Dead. So basically, the military was sent in to the island 10 years after the incident briefly showed in the first 20 mins of the movie. Now, they were sent on a mission to find out what became of the groups and teams stationed on the island. In zombie movie fashion, the team is sent in about 8 Seal team members with one doctor/scientist. As soon as they land, they are attacked and Joey Lawerence's character is in charge after their captain is killed by the zombies. They make their way to the research facility encountering the lone survivor who injects himself with the zombie-causing vaccine and that the team's doctor is the daughter of the lone survivor. Everyone on the team except for Joey Lawerence has turned or is killed. Joey Lawerence's character manages to nuke the island thus destroying the biological research center. Acting was piss poor. Joey Lawerence's character has the emotional range of a rock. He was not believable as a Navy SEAL and could not have done a worse job as an actor. He just slept through his role. The doctor portrayal was ridiculous and it begged the questions of whether she was on the mission to find out what happened to the research facility or to find her father (SPOILER). The lone survivor the Father is completely nuts and you can see it. What is completely unbelievable is the fact he kidnaps the soldiers and experiments on them but somehow does not pay for what he has done. Joey L's character merely points a gun at him. The other SEAL team members go down in hilarious fashion and commenting on the bad acting would be a waste of space and time here. Now, what was funny was the zombie behavior which was way more ridiculous on anti-social rather than zombie behavior. They were jumping around and challenging each other which was based on when they were injected or infected with the "zombie" vaccine. The scene sequence towards the movie's end when they were all fighting was downright stupid. The team doctor injected herself and fought one fo the "evil" zombies and was saved by her zombie father. The premise could have shown promise if they did not take this course. A weaponized ebola virus destroying the facility and the military sent in to investigate and mitigate any potential disasters would have been a good idea. Th movie script was bad. The acting as I said earlier was pretty thin and unbelievable. The flow was pretty light and did not stagnate at any time during the movie. The bigger questions: How do zombies survive for 10 years? How could the Navy SEALS have a character like Joey Lawerence in their group? How can the team doctor egg Joey L's character into decisions? How would the Colonel be able to corral the "outliers" into the cage? When the doctor was in the lab looking for information about the zombie vaccine on the computer, how can that computer be in the same system for security? Instead of deciding what to investigate about the research facility, why didn't they just nuke or drop some bunk buster bombs to clear out the island? Also, 10 years after the incident or losing contact, couldn't other countries have gone in and seen what has happened?
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