I never had that much experience with horror/zombie movies until I met my boyfriend, but now I can say I've seen a ton. Italian directors, American directors, cheesy ones, serious ones, you name it. The first ROTLD movie was fantastic, I loved the zombie-humor mix, and the characters were stupid but still managed to be likable enough for me to want (at least some) of them to live. Necropolis tries to achieve these things, and fails...so, so badly. The characters are all played by actors who seem to have learned how to act from a pamphlet they ordered for $2 off the back of an Archie comic. I've seen school plays acted this well, if not better. The dialog is cheesy and uninteresting,and you find yourself very quickly hoping for all of them to die just so they'll stop being so annoying. Trying to find the likable character to root for? Give up now, because there isn't one. The plot really isn't too terrible, as long as you don't mind all the continuity errors with regard to the first 3 films. Personally, I found the movie to be so intolerable due to the acting, that I didn't have time to worry about whether they were killing zombies by a shot to the head or not. I did find some things to be quite hilarious, the roasted rat attack for example, but it wasn't enough to make the movie enjoyable. There were things that made no sense, even in the context of a ROTLD movie...why in hell did the main guy's "best" friend (who was thoroughly a jerk to him the whole way through the movie, btw), come back as a zombie all vengeful and ready to kill because "you been messing around with my woman"????? Gawd, you're a ZOMBIE, shouldn't you be looking for brains or something? Who said you could be coherent? The robo-zombies concept isn't that weird, it carried on from the third film and actually made a little sense, even if the "world domination" thing was a bit far-fetched. And the buzz-saw hand? I confess, I loved that. I wish there had been more buzz-saw hand action. This might be worth watching as an example of how not to make a movie, but if you're looking for a good zombie film, I would recommend looking elsewhere.
