When I found out this was a SyFy production I must admit that my hopes and excitement faltered and faded. Usually SyFy makes stuff that is well below mediocre. But since it was with zombies, I decided to watch it anyway.
"Zombie Apocalypse" does have somewhat of a bit of similarity with "The Walking Dead" in its atmosphere, however, it is nowhere near that level of production. And the story in "Zombie Apocalypse" is pretty straight forward, much like most other zombie movies available. There is nothing new to be seen here, oh wait there is. But I will not say what it is, you will see for yourself towards the end when they discover what was dragging corpses up on top of containers. Do not get your hopes up though, because it was really an eyesore to behold.
The effects in the movie? Well, some were actually great, while others were downright horrible. For starters, if you make a zombie movie, don't just pain the zombie's faces grayish and forget to color the rest of the body from the neck down. Wow, that mistake is so bad, and it was seen all the time throughout this movie. On the plus side, some of the zombie's make-up was actually nice enough to look at. And one scene really had me cracked up and laughing my ass off. In the stadium, a zombie was nailed to a wall with an arrow through the head, and Cassie beheaded it by putting the katana to the neck, and then, wait, get this, just flicked her wrist and somehow magically cut through the entire neck, muscles, tendons, bone and all. That was so epically lame. And not to forget the hand grenade scene. Again, Cassie was in action, tossing a hand grenade and the explosion was massive enough to blow up an entire building block, but once the camera was back on the scene, the car parked at the explosion only had its motor in flames, where it would have been blasted over and in bad shape. That was so out of proportions.
As for the cast and their acting. Well they had a good enough cast. However, Ving Rhames (playing Henry), again? Come on, this is like what? His third zombie movie in equally many years? Now, he is not a bad actor, nor a super great one, but seeing him in yet another zombie movie was just not working for me. Lesley-Ann Brandt (playing Cassie), was one of the two most memorable characters in the movie. The other most memorable was Lilan Bowden (playing Banks). It was kind of weird to see Eddie Steeples (playing Billy) in this movie, he is just too deeply rooted in the role in "My Name is Earl".
"Zombie Apocalypse" provides adequate entertainment for zombie aficionados like me. However, there is nothing new to be seen here, and there were scenes in the movie that was downright toe-curling to behold. However, as a major fan of all things zombie, I just had to see it.
"Zombie Apocalypse" does have somewhat of a bit of similarity with "The Walking Dead" in its atmosphere, however, it is nowhere near that level of production. And the story in "Zombie Apocalypse" is pretty straight forward, much like most other zombie movies available. There is nothing new to be seen here, oh wait there is. But I will not say what it is, you will see for yourself towards the end when they discover what was dragging corpses up on top of containers. Do not get your hopes up though, because it was really an eyesore to behold.
The effects in the movie? Well, some were actually great, while others were downright horrible. For starters, if you make a zombie movie, don't just pain the zombie's faces grayish and forget to color the rest of the body from the neck down. Wow, that mistake is so bad, and it was seen all the time throughout this movie. On the plus side, some of the zombie's make-up was actually nice enough to look at. And one scene really had me cracked up and laughing my ass off. In the stadium, a zombie was nailed to a wall with an arrow through the head, and Cassie beheaded it by putting the katana to the neck, and then, wait, get this, just flicked her wrist and somehow magically cut through the entire neck, muscles, tendons, bone and all. That was so epically lame. And not to forget the hand grenade scene. Again, Cassie was in action, tossing a hand grenade and the explosion was massive enough to blow up an entire building block, but once the camera was back on the scene, the car parked at the explosion only had its motor in flames, where it would have been blasted over and in bad shape. That was so out of proportions.
As for the cast and their acting. Well they had a good enough cast. However, Ving Rhames (playing Henry), again? Come on, this is like what? His third zombie movie in equally many years? Now, he is not a bad actor, nor a super great one, but seeing him in yet another zombie movie was just not working for me. Lesley-Ann Brandt (playing Cassie), was one of the two most memorable characters in the movie. The other most memorable was Lilan Bowden (playing Banks). It was kind of weird to see Eddie Steeples (playing Billy) in this movie, he is just too deeply rooted in the role in "My Name is Earl".
"Zombie Apocalypse" provides adequate entertainment for zombie aficionados like me. However, there is nothing new to be seen here, and there were scenes in the movie that was downright toe-curling to behold. However, as a major fan of all things zombie, I just had to see it.