After a Zombie Outbreak, the majority of the world's population has been wiped out.
The R-Division is trying to eliminate the last of the zombies to avoid a second and final outbreak and rebuild the worlds population. Their operation is filmed and shown on television as a reality show.
The seasoned sergeant commands a team of veteran soldiers and despite their experience, there are usually casualties.
When they decide to investigate a compound, they find an army with a horde of zombies.......
Re-Kill has been in limbo for almost four years now, so it's no surprise to find my new favourite straight to Blu-Ray action star in nothing more than an awfully clichéd supporting role, together with an awfully awful American accent.
An fate seeing this, it's quite clear why no one has picked it up, because despite the fact that the first act really sets this up to be a Starship Troopers-esque satire of zombie films with a found footage element to it.
And then it just all goes for a Burton, as it turns to nothing more than a shoot 'em up in the vein of the movie version of Doom starring The Rock, but with a lesser budget and the bad guy from Passenger 57 as some gung-ho conspiracy nut.
Every once in a while, the action stops for a commercial promoting the repopulation of the earth, also known as selling you a bit of cheeky cheeky.
Once or twice for the ad is funny, it looks like they made an effort to inject something different to a tiring sub genre, but then it's the same ad put differently over and over, and the gimmick begins to wear your patience.
In the end, it gets confusing as to who is who, why have they done that, and where are they going with the horde of zombies? But no, none of the answers are explained fully, and we are left with a sour taste of reality TV overload, which the film thinks was a clever idea.
So all in all, it's pretty poor effort, which is a shame, because it's a wonderful concept, and in the right hands, it could've been something special.
But Verhoeven already did it in 1997, and I doubt he'd want to repeat a mild success.
A sad waste.
The R-Division is trying to eliminate the last of the zombies to avoid a second and final outbreak and rebuild the worlds population. Their operation is filmed and shown on television as a reality show.
The seasoned sergeant commands a team of veteran soldiers and despite their experience, there are usually casualties.
When they decide to investigate a compound, they find an army with a horde of zombies.......
Re-Kill has been in limbo for almost four years now, so it's no surprise to find my new favourite straight to Blu-Ray action star in nothing more than an awfully clichéd supporting role, together with an awfully awful American accent.
An fate seeing this, it's quite clear why no one has picked it up, because despite the fact that the first act really sets this up to be a Starship Troopers-esque satire of zombie films with a found footage element to it.
And then it just all goes for a Burton, as it turns to nothing more than a shoot 'em up in the vein of the movie version of Doom starring The Rock, but with a lesser budget and the bad guy from Passenger 57 as some gung-ho conspiracy nut.
Every once in a while, the action stops for a commercial promoting the repopulation of the earth, also known as selling you a bit of cheeky cheeky.
Once or twice for the ad is funny, it looks like they made an effort to inject something different to a tiring sub genre, but then it's the same ad put differently over and over, and the gimmick begins to wear your patience.
In the end, it gets confusing as to who is who, why have they done that, and where are they going with the horde of zombies? But no, none of the answers are explained fully, and we are left with a sour taste of reality TV overload, which the film thinks was a clever idea.
So all in all, it's pretty poor effort, which is a shame, because it's a wonderful concept, and in the right hands, it could've been something special.
But Verhoeven already did it in 1997, and I doubt he'd want to repeat a mild success.
A sad waste.