At its center, this movie has a pretty good story - a viral outbreak at a prison turns the inmates and guards into flesh-eating zombies. The problem is (besides the dreadful acting and jumbled script) the viewer is immediately thrust into the epidemic without any build up or any context to figure out what is happening. The believability of the circumstances is pretty shaky, too - (1) no matter what, a prisoner showing such dramatic signs of illness is not going to be escorted nonchalantly to his cell, especially if he continues vomiting blood over everyone; (2) the "prison" is a poor excuse for an abandoned building (windows are missing for crying out loud) and the gate of this "maximum-security" facility can be busted by a kid on his tricycle; (3) it would stand to reason that with the cells and the various security gates, a lock down would be very effective at keeping all the zombies from running rampant throughout the prison ... yet that is not the case. I didn't care for the overacting and the excessive scenes of inmates vomiting blood or zombies pulling intestines out of their victims - do it once and then try something else for god's sake. I will say this, I made it an hour into the movie before I finally had enough. Get a film editor on this movie, clean things up a bit, and it could be halfway decent. As it is, it's a mess and amazingly dull.
Review of Dead Men Walking
