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Wow, what a piece of sh*t!


I don't even know where to begin, I am underwhelmed... The idea, script and "dialogue" is terrible... dear writer, ever thought about working at Starbucks? You could still "write"... names on cups.

The "visual FX", wow... there this thing called tracking... After Effects 101. Track the subject and let the effect follow it, instead of trying to keyframe it and fail, yes I'm talking about the smoke in the first scene.
Also those green screen shots in the car...

Then why is Johnny Strong (BTW, really?) walking around with nothing happening and so many unnecessary cuts to make it feel like more action?

And how many shattering car window shots can you fit in one scene?

The day to night color grading was freaking aweful. The editing was all over the place, cutting from a wide to a (digitally zoomed in) close up from the same angle, back to the wide... why? So many pointless cuts.

The music in the title sequence totally threw me off...

I don't believe for a second that they've spent $2.000.000 on this turd, seems like they just increased it to get more from the distributors.

And the Alpha? I mean really? If he's such a badass how come he has to hide behind every corner making his weird move, and then the actually end fight with him was a real letdown, building him up like that....

I truly believe that all the fake reviews here are from crew members, also because most of them were posted before the VOD & BluRay release, yes they could've seen it at festivals, but still.
Despite the fact that the Zombie Apocalypse genre is flooded anyways, there's basically nothing original about this film and the script makes you not care about any of the characters.

I did find one positive thing about this movie though, and that is the cinematography, it looked good, it's not the DP's fault that the editor and the color grader made his work look bad, I feel for you man.

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Yeah, I was sort of surprised to se anybody saying ANYTHING good about this terrible film. Boring from beginning to end, derivative, terrible acting AND dialogue. Ugh. I score it a 3...and that's being generous IMO.

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