Bad enough to be excellent. I'm not sure if this film is supposed to look old but I assume the poor looking "film" stock is deliberate. It's got a pretty impressive cast, Micheal Biehn (Terminator & Aliens), Tom Savini (several Romero films), Bruce Willis, Naveen Andrews (Lost), Jeff Fahey (Lawnmower Man). Heck they even got Rose McGowen from Charmed and pop star Fergie.
Now the action is good, its gory and it it makes no apologies either. I do have a question, is the guy that Tom Savini shoots in the hospital car park (when Biehn says "Damn It!") Comedian Billy Connelly in an uncredited cameo? Rose McGowen is pretty hard to take seriously in this. Even when she swears it's not very convincing, It's like she's saying those words for the first time. The gratuitous love scene is VERY badly placed and a really bad idea.
The whole "missing reel" idea? Very stupid. A very lame way of getting around having to shoot action and not being able to afford it. Oh, and the guy playing El Wray? He should really play Max Payne if they do a movie of that. (He looks exactly right). Tom Savini gets a brilliant death (torn into big chunks!), and it's rather stupid that Rose can fire her gun leg without even touching a trigger?
Naveen dies well (if rather pointlessly as he's the most important member of the group, the only one who can make a cure), and we get a pretty awful ending to a half decent picture that would have been a million times better without the stupid "warping film/bad film stock" effects which almost certainly cost a fortune and made the film look terrible, visually.
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