As a zombie plague overruns mankind, a group of survivors decide to leave the supposedly fortified Alcatraz and make for the mainland in search of the scientist working on a vaccine cure and must battle the relentless undead hordes to get there.
This one wasn't that bad of a zombie effort, and while flawed this one offered up some pretty good moments. This here is mostly effective whenever dealing with the zombies on the attack as that allows for a lot of action scenes, many of them quite extended which makes them all the more fun. There's some great early action here with the opening attack on the suburban neighborhood of the zombies taking over the house leading to the mad dash to escape in the car through the streets leading into another fine attack at the end, though the massive attack on the group in their island fortress is even more fun. From the massive swarm that overruns the hallways taking along the different bodies forcing plenty of gunfire and panic to get to safety as the creatures continue pushing their way through the defenses and eating the few left stranded, this is a fantastic action scene that's incredibly lengthy and generates the kind of excitement in the opening that's required for this one to start well. The later action scenes here are somewhat enjoyable as the group gets ambushed in the house providing this one with some fun trying to hold off the attacks while the big action scene of their encounter on the bridge allows for more explosive action blowing them to pieces as well as the thrilling moments of the zombies silently emerging from the water ready to attack. As well, there's even more action encounters in the final half here with this one giving several outstanding zombie swarms from the police station encounter, the attack on beach and the biggest moment here in the attack at the research lab where there's massive fights to get past and the swarm and the frantic race to get to the escape helicopter past the creatures. The result of these action scenes here gives the film a rather frenetic pace due to the zombies being front and center, and the fact that there's the nice zombie make- up and the graphic gore to be displayed, which here is quite gruesome and really worthwhile, helping to add to this one immensely. These issues all make this one enjoyable even though there's a few small flaws here. While the frequent interjections back to the compound studying the effects of the virus are quite original, the only real problem here is the rather cliché nature of it all, managing to feel as though it's all a rip-off of the current state of zombie-dom rather than doing anything original or creative with the material, and that hurts this somewhat. Likewise, this continuous shifting back does delay some of the zombie action to a point and slow the film down somewhat during the point in the film where it's right among the point where you'd want the action to continue instead of stopping for a break. As well, there's some dodgy CGI here that creeps in at some rather odd moments that don't really need CGI which allows for some rather hard times here with scenes that shouldn't be that way. None of these are enough to be completely damaging, but it is present and lowers what could've been a great entry from the positive points here.
Rated R: Graphic Violence and Language.
This one wasn't that bad of a zombie effort, and while flawed this one offered up some pretty good moments. This here is mostly effective whenever dealing with the zombies on the attack as that allows for a lot of action scenes, many of them quite extended which makes them all the more fun. There's some great early action here with the opening attack on the suburban neighborhood of the zombies taking over the house leading to the mad dash to escape in the car through the streets leading into another fine attack at the end, though the massive attack on the group in their island fortress is even more fun. From the massive swarm that overruns the hallways taking along the different bodies forcing plenty of gunfire and panic to get to safety as the creatures continue pushing their way through the defenses and eating the few left stranded, this is a fantastic action scene that's incredibly lengthy and generates the kind of excitement in the opening that's required for this one to start well. The later action scenes here are somewhat enjoyable as the group gets ambushed in the house providing this one with some fun trying to hold off the attacks while the big action scene of their encounter on the bridge allows for more explosive action blowing them to pieces as well as the thrilling moments of the zombies silently emerging from the water ready to attack. As well, there's even more action encounters in the final half here with this one giving several outstanding zombie swarms from the police station encounter, the attack on beach and the biggest moment here in the attack at the research lab where there's massive fights to get past and the swarm and the frantic race to get to the escape helicopter past the creatures. The result of these action scenes here gives the film a rather frenetic pace due to the zombies being front and center, and the fact that there's the nice zombie make- up and the graphic gore to be displayed, which here is quite gruesome and really worthwhile, helping to add to this one immensely. These issues all make this one enjoyable even though there's a few small flaws here. While the frequent interjections back to the compound studying the effects of the virus are quite original, the only real problem here is the rather cliché nature of it all, managing to feel as though it's all a rip-off of the current state of zombie-dom rather than doing anything original or creative with the material, and that hurts this somewhat. Likewise, this continuous shifting back does delay some of the zombie action to a point and slow the film down somewhat during the point in the film where it's right among the point where you'd want the action to continue instead of stopping for a break. As well, there's some dodgy CGI here that creeps in at some rather odd moments that don't really need CGI which allows for some rather hard times here with scenes that shouldn't be that way. None of these are enough to be completely damaging, but it is present and lowers what could've been a great entry from the positive points here.
Rated R: Graphic Violence and Language.