User Reviews

Yu Yang plays Hu Bolin, a single father who seem to be the lone survivor of a zombie apocolypse in an apartment complex, and to survive he sends out a small remote controlled robot vehicle to look for food and check the landscape to see what is developing. Then one day the vehicle is waylaid by somebody, as the zombies have previously ignored it in its travels. Looking through its camera, Hu Bolin sees two women, a young and an older woman fighting off a zombie attack. The older woman will die, but the younger woman escapes.

Hu Bolin decides to go on a rescue mission. He does end up rescuing the woman (Zhang Xuhong as Li Yue) but she is traumatized and so she resists, and he has to "convince" her to be rescued. Dr. Phil wouldn't approve. When she awakens back at Hu's apartment she realizes she has been rescued to look after his child, a job that also includes wet nursing it.

So they enter into a contentious relationship, as she will only do what he requests under certain rules, which he agrees to. As I said, the relationship becomes contentious as she wants to leave, and he's satisfied with holing up in the apartment and awaiting rescue, which doesn't seem to be coming anytime soon. Both realize that neither is a good option.

Then on a foraging expedition Hu runs into trouble. Seeing her chance to escape Li packs some supplies, and makes a break for freedom. But she fails at this, and then she is captured by Han Yanbo playing Qin Quanli, a local criminal who's escaped from prison to wreck vengeance on those that have betrayed him. Too late, they've already turned. Han Yanbo chews up the scenery in such a way that Dennis Hopper would be proud, and if he can't have one thing, then he'll have another. He wants Li, and he's gonna have her, and saying no won't help.

Meanwhile Hu has resolved his resolved his troubles and he gets back in time to save his baby, and to rescue Li. Unfortunately things have taken a turn for the worst for Hu, and now he realizes that both he and Li have to get out. Now! The only thing is that to get out they will have to rely on Qin, and wants only one thing in payment from Li. Complications ensue, and a dirty deal is made.

Everybody has a backstory, some more developed than others, but not having seen the first movie in this series, I found myself liking Zhang Xuhong's character as she goes from self-entitled to a mother and a survivor. True, she's not a superwoman, but she gets the job done in-the-end. As I said, Han Yanbo can truly chew up the scenery when needed, and as a villain he's not sugar coated. Yu Yang's character is the weakest, perhaps because he's a hold-out from the first movie? Anyway, the movie is totally professionally done, if a bit short. No nudity, but there is beheadings, brutality, and cannibalism. This is a Chinese movie, and you do get the idea that it's been edited, but plotholes aside, the only real flaws that I saw were some choppy editing and the subtitles were often white against white.