the audience applauded

One of my all time favorites.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

I found this among the best-ever movies of it genre. It reminded me of Network and Putney Swope and some others. Wonderfully detailed, nearly verisimilitude, great mockumentary, funny as heck, look for "wrangler" credits.Like Network, which seemed so improbable until we realized that virtually every detail of Network came to be, this movie presents huge sci-fi/horror speculation that also bears a lot of resemblance to current events.The commercials were among the best parts.Greg

...this brainless action/horror product apparently gave a number of solid B-movie actors the opportunity to tour beautiful Sofia, Hungary. Oh, and make a shaky-cam movie. The results are mixed, and mostly forgettable, despite a veneer of $9.5mil in production quality. The gimmick is a reality show in the near future after an 85% fatal zombie apocalypse. Manhattan is a quarantine zone into which a camera- embedded SWAT team is inserted in search of some nefarious secret project. The story borrows tropes from across the spectrum, mashing them together into nothing special. The acting is okay, the pace is mostly good, but the plotting and dialog are routine and disengaging. This is video game level material. Fine entertainment for the indiscriminate zombie junkie, but otherwise pure make work.

First thing's first; if you hate shaky-cam then you won't be able to stand this movie, because there is a lot of it. Otherwise this is a great zombie movie that draws heavily from Starship Troopers to give a satirical look at a zombie apocalypse via reality shows, news reports and commercials.The acting and writing are both decent and make for an enjoyable experience overall, again if it falls down anywhere it is in the action scenes where the attempt to give a realistic feel to being in such a situation leads to a lot of confusing and sickly camera movements. There is certainly something to be said for the film's commitment to its world and dedication to putting its audience into the action.Overall the segments away from the main story make this worth watching, and the main segment itself is pretty compelling if you can look past the occasional camera craziness. A sequel with a bigger budget could do really well for itself and this could easily turn into a fun horror franchise if the standards are kept up.

So I've been trawling through the zombie horrors as of late. By chance I happened upon Re-Kill, which I originally bypassed on release! I can still see why, but I found myself surprised by how well-executed the action/horror was. Drop the corny REC (Spanish zombie movie) dialogue, the First Person camera angles (which caused me some motion sickness) and a few pointless scenes here and there and this movie is actually a nod to '80s Paul Verhoeven sci-fi parody and Left 4 Dead multi-player gaming.It's not there for the drama or to deliver a message, it's solely there for the experience and as zombie shoot-'em-ups go, it does a fine job when it gathers momentum. It just takes some effort to get there as a result of distracting cut-aways to scenes the movie didn't need.What surprised me first and foremost, though, was its cast. Roger R. Cross never quite made the transition from TV face to movie lead since cult sci-fi series First Wave.In Re-Kill he gets his own platoon and he kicks ass. His character is quite reminiscent of Tony Todd's performance in the 1990 Night of the Living Dead remake.Also surprising was the return of '90s rent-a-villain Bruce Payne, who takes the crazy hero slant for once. He's still creepy as hell, though. And Scott Adkins, a martial arts action hero as a meat-headed SWAT trooper? He's pretty intense and very welcome for this one.Some other actors could have done a better job, or simply not had a job. At first you won't know if Re-Kill is trying to be serious or just resemble the silly 3D movies they used to play at Alton Towers but eventually it comes into its own.I just wish they had a director's cut with the idiot cameraman voice deleted, or rewritten and performed by someone who isn't irritating.Good effort, just not a great contender!