Picked it up because I like a good obscure zombie movie and usually go in with pretty low expectations.
The thing about this particular movie is that it isn't bad. It's shot fine enough, it's acted fine enough, the effects are fine enough. For a low budget zombie movie shot in Africa it is pretty solid.
It's main issue is pacing. If it was 70 minutes or shorter it might have helped but the movie really falls into a pattern. Two main characters travel for awhile, stop to check for supplies and zombies appear very slowly. They leave. They travel for awhile then their car has an issue. They get out, zombies approach slowly, they fix the car and leave. Rinse and repeat.
Slow zombies are fine but I think these fall into the category of too slow, especially with the dramatic end reveal that the zombies have somehow overrun the world in seemingly a very short hand.
It's a very slow paced movie and slips right into being boring. The characters are too weak to carry the film. They're both quiet, serious men who are out to find their family. Outside of that they have no real personality and the lack of dialogue is meant to make it feel very serious and stark but it means they barely had any chance to build character.
The ending isn't the gut punch I think they wanted it to be, it just kind of happened. The zombies aren't really a threat at any point in the movie, so the idea that a US military base fell to them is just bizarre when two guys in a beat up car did pretty good against numerous groups. At times they can be surrounded and then just suddenly remember they can fight and instantly dispatch the zombies without any real issue.
The death of one of the two main characters was so poorly done I was assuming it was a dream. They decide to just go to sleep in the middle of nowhere, zombies stumble on them and attack. We see the main character get bitten instantly, there was no tension or suspense to see what happens, it's the first thing they show. It was so poorly done I was expecting it to be a dream because it was such a stupid way to just kill off one of only two characters in the movie. But no, if was real. For some reason they didn't sleep in shifts or sleep in a tree like they do later.
I never really disliked the movie outside of that one scene but I found myself checking my phone a lot especially during one of the many scenes of 5 zombies very slowly walking towards them from 100m away because I'd seen it so many times at that point.
Cut the run time down, have a set piece or two and have a few more characters then it'd have been something better.
The thing about this particular movie is that it isn't bad. It's shot fine enough, it's acted fine enough, the effects are fine enough. For a low budget zombie movie shot in Africa it is pretty solid.
It's main issue is pacing. If it was 70 minutes or shorter it might have helped but the movie really falls into a pattern. Two main characters travel for awhile, stop to check for supplies and zombies appear very slowly. They leave. They travel for awhile then their car has an issue. They get out, zombies approach slowly, they fix the car and leave. Rinse and repeat.
Slow zombies are fine but I think these fall into the category of too slow, especially with the dramatic end reveal that the zombies have somehow overrun the world in seemingly a very short hand.
It's a very slow paced movie and slips right into being boring. The characters are too weak to carry the film. They're both quiet, serious men who are out to find their family. Outside of that they have no real personality and the lack of dialogue is meant to make it feel very serious and stark but it means they barely had any chance to build character.
The ending isn't the gut punch I think they wanted it to be, it just kind of happened. The zombies aren't really a threat at any point in the movie, so the idea that a US military base fell to them is just bizarre when two guys in a beat up car did pretty good against numerous groups. At times they can be surrounded and then just suddenly remember they can fight and instantly dispatch the zombies without any real issue.
The death of one of the two main characters was so poorly done I was assuming it was a dream. They decide to just go to sleep in the middle of nowhere, zombies stumble on them and attack. We see the main character get bitten instantly, there was no tension or suspense to see what happens, it's the first thing they show. It was so poorly done I was expecting it to be a dream because it was such a stupid way to just kill off one of only two characters in the movie. But no, if was real. For some reason they didn't sleep in shifts or sleep in a tree like they do later.
I never really disliked the movie outside of that one scene but I found myself checking my phone a lot especially during one of the many scenes of 5 zombies very slowly walking towards them from 100m away because I'd seen it so many times at that point.
Cut the run time down, have a set piece or two and have a few more characters then it'd have been something better.