***WARNING: POSSIBLE SPOILERS IN THIS RESPONSE***
I saw the movie last night. It was good for some reasons and not as good as the first one for others.
My long, drawn out review goes something like this...
- Liked the idea of the whole city this time around. I wonder if "City of the Dead" will be like this... The downside to this is it seemed to be a pretty large city and the viewers aren't really familiar with the landscape of it so when they jump all around you start wondering how close the different groups are to one another. Plus, th whole thing was at night so it makes it even harder to associate with the different locations.
- The biggest perk to a locked down city of zombies is it means there are a shit-load of zombies.
- The S.T.A.R.S. guys are supposed to be pretty tactically proficient, but yet they are fighting "civil war" style; in a line shooting at the incoming hoards. How fucking stupid is that? Bottle neck anyone? No wonder they get overrun so easily standing in the middle of a wide street... rather than moving into a building or firing from fire escapes & rooftops.
- The sniper guy was cool... until he got blown away. Not sure why, as good of shot as he was he kept plugging the Nemesis in the chest instead of the big ass head.
- They seemed to go a little to far with the bio-engineering crap making Milla super human (and that ending?).
- Yes, I understand the Nemesis is practically the whole theme of the second game, but it seemed to work a lot better in the game. Plus it looked so plastic. I forget in the game whether that thing carried all that major firepower or not... I kind of remember it just busting through walls and beating up characters. Probably could have left that whole thing out had they not made to connection with the ending of the first movie.
- Did the dogs seem harder to kill in this one or was it just me?
- Oh... my biggest heart ache... that GODDAM SHAKEY CAM again. I'd like to know who in film school is teaching this ridiculous technique, because I want to punch him in the back of the head. Why go to all the trouble of making these elaborate shootouts and fight scenes when you can't even see them. Not to mention way to many cuts/angle changes. I don't think a camera shot last more than 5 seconds at any given time in this movie. Also very irritating.
- Jill character was cool and hot, but her dialogue was pretty much stupid.
- Token (stereotypical) black pimp guy... was absolutely lame. AND HE SURVIVED? WTF? He was like the RE:A version of Jar Jar. Surprised it was a Wayans brother, Jamie Foxx, or Brian Fellows. "Those zombies are CRAZY... I'm Brian Fellows!"
- I liked the guy from The Mummy... he's a pretty cool action guy.
- Still not enough gore. The first movie had some scenes that would have made the movie 100% better (the guy getting cut into cubes by the laser comes to mind not to mention the weak ass zombie eating). It's a zombie movie for crying out loud... I want to see shit like Dawn and Day of the Dead... intestines being pulled out of a guy while he's screaming. Most of the zombie footage was this weird shakey, blurred shit.
- The music was almost as good as the first one. I liked the (non-vocal) music that Marylin Manson did for the first one. I'm just glad they didn't plug actual music into the movie, but kept it as just straight music.
- Ending was left WIDE open for another movie... Didn't really get where the other survivors came from.... were they regenerated too, or did the actually survive that crash. Little fuzzy on that one.
Quoted:
Quoted: I always ignore the reviews. It's zombies and shoot outs with a half naked hottie dude! What more do you need?
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Is it just me or could those two words REALLY use some punctuation between them?
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Glad I'm not the only one who noticed something weird about how that sounded... good catch.