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It truly saddens me to say, but stick with the fun trailer or just rent.


"Osombie"

Much hyped on-line due to the basic idea (Osama Bin Ladin comes back as a zombie) this is in fact, away from that most basic conceit, just another crappy new zombie film that could have been made by the SyFy Channel...aside from the unusually excellent zombie make-up.

First off bad CGI bothers us again.
CGI explosions! Yeah. That's right. *sigh*
If you can't do a good looking CGI explosion (or just have an actual explosion!) then don't have a damn explosion.
As having it hurts, not having it goes by unnoticed and is thus painless for the poor viewer.
And don't add rubbishy CGI helicopters either. Again, something not being in the film is less of a crime than having something rubbish in a film

Where the CG does actually work is in delivering some excellent (long distance) exploding heads. Although it is the same exploding head over and over again it seems like. And the blood splatter on the 'camera lens' is also way overused.
So even positives have negatives.

The practical FX on the zombies themselves, as said, is truly excellent though.
These are good and rotten, dried and flaky, zombies that stagger in that classic way and are thankfully physically well acted as well.

Most of the gore comes in the form of CGI bullet damage and the zombie make-up as sadly there is very little gut munching/bite gore to be seen at all.
A major let down.

And then the biggest problem; The absurd troop of soldiers.
They're gung-ho to a comic book level. But, not gung-ho in a brave way...but in a stupidly suicidal way that's utterly exasperates the viewer.
I kid you not, some of these soldiers literally run to their deaths.
As despite having guns to shoot the staggering zombies from a distance they run towards them and get in the middle of them! Meaning they get grabbed, knocked to the ground etc etc for absolutely no reason at all.

And quite why, in an almost flat desert, we have loads of scenes of zombies popping up completely unnoticed, worse unnoticed by a whole group of professional soldiers who are constantly taken unawares, is best left to the silly, silly, minds of the makers to explain.

And looking back almost of those that die in this film die purely because of their own comedic stupidity. It would be infuriating anyway, but for a bunch of trained soldiers? Christ!

And at one point one of them states how vital their mission is.
Which makes it even more infuriating that they act like they're on a weekend paintballing jolly.
Imagine the biker gang from the custard pie sequence in "Dawn of the Dead" only as soldiers and as the main characters.
They never, ever, take the zombie threat seriously, they laugh, shout, strip off to their naked torsos, fire madly for laughs and hit nothing. A right bunch of comedic yahoos.

EXCEPT they are not meant to be comical, and in fact nor is the film.
Yes, despite the bat *beep* crazy plot, the film is played and acted seriously...except when it isn't.
It cant seem to decide what it is, thus the serious stuff gets weakened and the humour becomes obtrusive.

And be prepared for lots of very dull talk, talk, talk as the soldiers slowly trudge through, or camp down in, the desert until the next, almost exactly the same each time to the point of tedium, zombie encounter.
Although there is a pretty effective tunnel sequence which is the only action scene not to seem tired or annoying.

And as for actual Bin Ladin himself, well that part of the plot is extremely anti-climactic in how it finally plays out. We're given no crowd pleasing scene involving him.
A real missed chance and another great looking zombie wasted in a poor film.

So sadly (and I mean sadly as I’m all for ‘out there’ ideas and go for it Indy spirit) despite some good flashes and a great basic idea "Osombie" should have remained just that, an idea.
In fact you know that great fun trailer you probably saw?
Well pretend it's one of those "Grindhouse" style fake trailers for a film that does not actually exist.
It's better that way.
But if you really need to see it, go the rental route.



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Who are you? And why should be care about the opinion of a person who doesn't even know where to put his review?

I'll say this much though, WOW you did take this film way too seriously, whining to whoever will listen and trying so desperately to get attention.

Let me clue you in on something. this is horror schlock from Asylum, I think people know what their in for when they see the title and the production company.

Most will either watch it or not watch it, then there are those kids like you..

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I'l put what i want where I want child.

And you're not defending the film. You're just showing your flabby arse off in public by saying I simply shouldn't say anything about it..... just because YOU say so?!

Right.

But oh, you're also wrong. This film has nothing to do with Asylum!
So more the idiot you.
Oh dear, your lack of any basic knowledge doth shine like a light in the darkness created by your own massive arse of an ego.

Your entire point is that we have no views worth a damn and should keep them to ourself anyway. So all IMDB boards would be empty then.
Including the dross spewed out by you on them.

Plus all those lame, 3rd rate, vomit stains you call your reviews on here too (although that would be a blessing).

Why are they here? WHO ARE YOU!?
Who are you to put reviews on IMDB, or any views at all anywhere. Just want attention do you?
Well no, you can't have any.

Arrogant, masturbatory, troll you.

Now crawl back under your rock and hope your thumbs eventually evolve so you can shove one up your ass.

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Oops Arrowstorm Entertainment, my mistake.


Why are they here? WHO ARE YOU!?


Im DirtyDingusMagee can't you read? Probably not or you wouldve known where to put your review. Oh and Im here because I liked this movie. I don't hang out on movie threads of films I dislike. What are you doin here?

Are you Lost?


Anyway, you like flaming this low budget film so much why not make a few more threads then? I don't think you got your point across on the last thread.

As for the rest of your flame, did you forget to take your meds today?

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dirtydingusmagee123

Maybe you should wash your brain you know... so your eyes and ears will work again,... and then, you'll maybe see, what garbage this movie really is...;)

But on the other hand, some people just like garbage... go figure.

I thought, this movie will be some kind of parody, but o no... lol

I bet, I could sell you a dog house, saying it is a mini castle for one person...





"people are strange, when you're a stranger"

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I agree the movie is a B-movie with a Z-plot and its definitely not for everyone, but it does have an audience. I happen to enjoy films like this. I like movies that are deemed good by the masses, but I also like movies that are only for a handful of diehard horror fans with a certain sense of humour. I consider this to be in the latter category.

Its people that climb across the internet to spit out pretentious pseudo-intellectual venom at a film that doesn't require intellect that I don't like.

If people can't relax and enjoy something like this why watch it? Why buy or download it? Why come here and bitch about it to people who really don't care? Attacking this movie is the equivalent of picking on a handicapped person. We know its bad, but we like it anyway.

People will say their opinion matters, but this isn't some deep introspective movie to argue semantics and plot over. Its horror schlock. If you can't take it for what it is then don't waste the time of the people who can.

The 4.* rating reflects what the masses think, the 9 good reviews are what the target demographic thinks.

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I'm with you on this dirtydingusmagee123... most people will find this movie awful, but I like to watch a lot of zombie movies. Nine times out of ten they are awful, often no better than 4/10 affairs, but I watch them anyway. I watched Abraham Lincoln vs Zombies and I rate it 1/10. This was far better!

Going in knowing it's going to be an awful joke of a zombie movie I rather enjoyed it and give it 6/10 for the genre.

People coming in and flaming this are idiots for watching it in the first place. What were they expecting?

I've got to admit though, the CGI helicopters were truly heinous. They weren't even required!

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I completely agree with this assessment! OP is right on the money.

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