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Mutant Chronicles (2008)
Not a waste of two hours of your life.
Sometimes a movie comes out and you sit up and take notice. SyFy shows a lot of crappy movies and you need to sift through them to find the good ones.
This movie has a style and mood that you will not see often. It has the look of a live video game, but a small amount of color. The effect is interesting and novel. Even the maps in the movie look like a page from the "Thief" series of classic video games.
Part of the Hellboy cast reunites here and are great as usual. Ron Perlman is always a treat to see.
Some of the plot ideas are a bit silly (steam powered aircraft and the "can't kill" mutants), but it holds together and drags you in.
Worth a Saturday night.
"There is no bad science fiction, except L. Ron Hubbard."
Zombie Apocalypse (2011)
There is no bad Science Fiction (except L. Ron Hubbard)
Having spent 300+ hours playing "Left4Dead" and "Left4Dead 2", I cannot be neutral about this movie. The trek to safety is engaging. I wish they had more looting. I think that the east coast characters do not loot as well as native Los Angelians :) The zombie battles are intense. I do wonder why they seem to stumble into packs without a lot of reconnaissance. Zombie special effects are what they are. I am not sure that I can point to any zombie movie that separates from the pack in this regard. Yes, the character development is weak, but there are at least some interesting character relationships. For those who have only seen Los Angeles from Beverly Hills or Universal Studios, it is interesting to see the city's industrial underbelly. To the "one star" reviewers, I think that these SyFy movies might be seen as what they are, low budget attempts to bring a new angle to the exhausted apocalypse subject.