Better than posters are giving it credit for...
Well shot and acted. Not a masterpiece, but damn good for a recent zombie movie.
http://www.zombiesatemymom.com/movies/movie-review-what-we-become-2015
Well shot and acted. Not a masterpiece, but damn good for a recent zombie movie.
http://www.zombiesatemymom.com/movies/movie-review-what-we-become-2015
i agree it's not bad. it just didn't do anything new or even semi-original. but again, i thought it was a decent movie.
shareThe problem is that it had a chance to be a fresh take, focusing on the government containment/coverup, and instead just fell apart and leaned on all the exact same, tired zombie fiction tropes we've seen in almost literally every film or show. It was hardly the worst thing I've ever seen. It's just that I've seen almost that exact same thing so many times, that it wasn't even entertaining to me, personally.
I don't demand originality from everything I watch. I don't mind things being derivative. But it gets old when everything within a given sub-genre just copy-cats each other. I for one, would love to see a novel approach to this kind of setup, wherein people DON'T turn on each other, but rather actually band together, and survive. You can still get scary and tense moments out of that. But the whole Romero "the living are the real monsters" bit has been done to death for decades.
I think there is plenty of room to have some fresh takes in this kind of story. But the problem is, no one seems to be interested enough, or brave enough, to try.