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War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave (2008)
Yet another brooding pile
I decided to watch the first in the series when it came out, just to say I had seen it. It was a brooding piece of melodrama where we got to see the main character brood over his loss.
As a sequel to that, this is perfect. He spends the movie brooding over his next loss.
However, the stunningly bad plot should be what he is brooding over.
The only thing that could be salvageable from this "film" would be the relatively decent 3D work with the walkers. Pretty much every other special effect is amateurish and could be better redone by the sophomores in any given film school. And, probably for less money.
Rise of the Zombies (2012)
Painfully bad
Every movie has several elements that play together, and can support each other. These elements are acting, writing, premise, plot, special effects, and level of entertainment. It provides a web the pull the viewer through the piece.
If one area is lacking, the others can make up for it, to a point.
In this movie, I am sorry to say that even the decent acting by the recognizable actors was not enough to save this bomb.
The actors did the best they could with what they had. The problem was everything else.
The writing made the characters, at best, two dimensional. From the scientist who sacrificed himself in an insane bid to save his daughter to the tough-as-nails guy, to the pilot who just wants to help, this movie was full of cliché. Even then, it could have been a campy hit with good dialog or special effects. Neither delivered, with stunningly obvious green screens, way too much gore for any but the demented son of a slaughterhouse knocker, and dialog that made my ears want to bleed.
The final insult was the last minute "And they all lived happily ever after" implication.
All in all, I wish they could refund me the time it took to make it through this atrocity.