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Nothing new here, you've seen it all before. Tedious tripe!

posted 8 years ago by marko10174
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Absolutely pathetic. I've read quite a few accounts from people saying the movie is too slow, well the fact that the movie is only 73 mins long (then the credits role) you don't have time to be slow when trying to tell a good story in such a short space of time.

You are treated to sixty minutes of a family sitting in their house acting all worried and concerned whilst the rest of the world is falling apart around them (though you the viewer never sees any of it) and then the last ten minutes is basically Night of the living dead, that's it, that's the plot. Honestly, I don't even think there's a ten minutes of zombies in the final scene, I think it's like seven rushed minutes. I actually read a review describing this movie as original and something new! which is absolute nonsense. This movie has absolutely nothing new to offer, you've seen it done all before.

[–] SpannersGerm669 8 years ago

Each to their own. Personally I thought this was very suspenseful!

you can't turn a turtle into a racehorse, but you can make it into a very fast turtle!

[–] tamtle 8 years ago

I would agree with you. been done before. Nothing new. but for some reason, I sat through all of it. maybe good acting and sound effects and music kept it going. But I totally agree with you.

[–] JJett131313 7 years ago

i didn't dislike this movie (it's decent i guess) but i agree 1000% that it brings NOTHING new whatsoever to the zombie/infection genre. everything in the movie (story-wise) has been done tons and tons of times and it's been done better (in those tons and tons of zombie films/shows).

[–] dayvit78 7 years ago

JJet, you are absolutely right. The zombie genre has been done so many times that if you're going to do it, you need to bring something new or original to the table. For example, since this film was set in Denmark, couldn't they have had something linked to that? But basically, everything was exactly the same as we see in US or UK - ie the police, the civilians, all acted the same way. There was nothing special about it being Denmark.

Again, not saying it was done poorly, just saying, there's no reason to watch it since there's nothing that hasn't been done 100 times before.