Zombie Massacre (2013/E1 Blu-ray)
Picture:
A- Sound: B- Extras: C Main Program: C+
A top
secret super soldier experiment created by the U.S. Government has gone
horribly wrong, now an entire town has turned into flesh eating zombies. In order to cover up their mistake, the
government sends in a group of mercenaries-for-hire to detonate an atomic bomb
in the town's nuclear power plant, destroying all the zombies and all the
evidence at the same time. However
things are on the clock, if they don't finish in time... no one gets out...
alive that is.
Uwe Boll
produced and thankfully not directed Zombie
Massacre (2013), but it has co-directors in Luca Boni and Marco Riston, who
barely make this tired bit any better as an experiment goes wrong and the U.S.
government sends in a team of expendable soldiers to clean up the job. Said team is lead by a tough criminal soldier
who was promised his freedom and his daughter after doing the job; followed by
a trigger happy demolitionist, a super sniper, and a ninja girl, but little did
they know they were sent in with a one way ticket. Now, they have to plant the bomb, survive the
horde, escape the nuclear blast and then get some payback for the
general leaving them there.
This is
another typical zombie flicks in which the military was trying to create super
soldiers gone wrong. The zombies all
looked cool and were the fastest bunch of zombies I have ever saw (zombies
aren't supposed to be able to do a full run, right?). While the costuming wasn't bad in Blu-ray,
unfortunately it allowed you to see how fake the costuming was. The plot was too predictable and the military
soldier's behavior and how they carried themselves was clearly not military
(except maybe the power hungry general). There as a lot less blood and gore when compared
to other zombie films, but the script is again very lacking.
The 1080p
2.35 X 1 digital High Definition image look much better than we expected,
especially with anything Uwe Boll’s name would be on, styled to the genre, but
really well shot, even if editing is goofy.
The DTS-HD MA (Master Audio) 5.1 lossless mix is not as dynamic and a
little sloppy and problematic, yet some of that is likely concessions to the
genre. Extras include making of
featurette, storyboard comparison, teaser and trailer.
- Ricky Chiang
