Disaster
L.A.: The Last Zombie Apocalypse Begins Here
(2014/Warner Blu-ray)
Picture:
B Sound: B+ Extras: D Film: D
By
the incredibly long title and horrid box art alone, you know what
you're in for when you pop in this disc. What I was surprised by was
the level of production value and budget that this thing must have
had. With literally not one bankable star, the film is very much
your typical zombie movie with predictable character outcomes that
usher a story that is tired. Though shot interestingly with decent
glossy color correction - the film looks like a big Hollywood
production but instead feels like a rich filmmaker cast his friends
and decided to make a zombie movie that somehow got produced by
Warner Brothers (still trying to figure that one out).
The
City of Angels has gone to HELL! New timer Turner Clay wrote,
scored, edited, directed and produced (with John Will Clay) Disaster
L.A.
(2014) which tells the story of a group of friends desperately trying
to escape the toxic smoke that is the deadly result of a meteor
shower strike in the middle of Los Angeles. In its wake, neither
friends nor strangers are safe from each other. The only hope for
survival is to try to reach the coast before it's too late.
The
acting is SO bad that it's at times painful to behold - especially in
the earlier party scenes before the nuclear attack when one coked out
college student rambles on and on for five minutes about how much he
loves his friends. Spare me. The makeup and gore effects are just
okay. All in all the film feels like a knockoff of Battle
L.A.
or Cloverfield
though without an original angle of filmmaking or concept to take it
to the next level.
Once
the meteors start dropping, you begin to wish that all of the kids
would stop complaining and panicking and that the cast of The
Walking Dead
would come in and take them out one by one and get the film over
with.
The
sound and the picture on the disc are fine especially the sound mix
which is very loud and trembles your home entertainment system with a
DTS-HD MA track in English 5.1 that's nothing to shake a stick at.
Subtitles on the disc are in English SDH, French, and Spanish. The
transfer looks decent on Blu-ray as well captured in 1080p high
definition with an aspect ratio of 2.40.1 as noted above. Total
running time is a 83 minutes that may be too long.
No
extras are on the disc.
-
James Harland Lockhart V
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