one-nine-eighty The opening shots promised Zombies, the first thing to upset me was that I had to wait for nearly 45 minutes to actually see zombie's lurching into shots and causing mayhem. Basically some stereotypically gangster geezer (Ackson played by D.J. Naylor) wants out of a gang, but he is made to do "one more job" for the crime lord who seems to have his own empire including a clothing line (adverts and slogans for 'Avirex' are everywhere like a product placement parody) and a lesbian porn factory. The job is to check up on and supervise another crew who want to rob a bank (the four man crew is headed up by Brandon Xavier's Ski character). Upon Ackson arriving he finds the crew have changed their plans because they are inexperienced and impatient idiots; instead of the robbery being planned for a day or two they decide to rob it whilst scoping it out. Things go wrong (as with all rush jobs like this), cops, security and patrons are threatened and in some instances shot in cold blood, the silent alarm is triggered and a police/SWAT team turn up and surround the bank. To make things worse their get-away driver panics and flees the scene with the get-away car!! Despite Ackson trying to put some controls in place and have a smooth robbery Ski has caused mayhem and there is no apparent escape. Scene set, queue the Zombies….. These zombies aren't regular zombies, they are vampiric zombies, this is actually explained by Hunter (Big Daddy Kane) who advises they are a result of cross contamination of mutagens - of course they are. The vampire-zombies break through the police line and begin to infiltrate the bank queueing up Hunter's arrival. Hunter is an ex-government agent and he wants to save the handful of people who have so far survived but they have to listen and follow orders, which of course has been proved as difficult already with Ski not listening to Ackson. The group manage to slay an awful lot of vampire-zombies leaving blood splashed everywhere but who will survive and what will be left of them?This film thought it was "Boyz in da Hood" crossed with "Shawn of the Dead" but wasn't close to being as good as either. It felt like a lot of style over content at times as the story was fairly weak, it just seemed like a lot of peacocking to prove how cool the 'gang/thug life is". There were times where the narrative/dialogue was too 'street' and it was difficult to understand what the actors where talking about unless you have a degree in gang thug-o-nomics, even after watching lots of typical 'street/gang' films there were some things I was baffled by - none the less I figured it out eventually despite the script calling for a curse word apparently every two words. Saying that though I have seen a lot worse films, this film didn't try to be big - it's not like there was a big budget and they blew it trying to make something epic. It's more that there was little to no budget and the production crew just wanted to make something fun - in that sense it succeeded, even with the sometimes difficult dialogue. The biggest let down for me was the zombies, Bo Webb the directory obviously wanted to combine random film folklores and bring something new and original with these vampire- zombies but at times it was too mixed up. Things like the vampire- zombies only coming out at night on a full moon, the varying ways to kill them, the biology and strengths/ weakness of them. As mentioned the zombies didn't get enough screen time and rather than being a threat they just came across as mildly annoying.The big question then, did I enjoy the film? I guess I didn't hate it, but that doesn't necessarily confirm that I enjoyed it does it. I tolerated the film and it wasn't a waste of 90 minutes of my life, but likewise I wont be writing home to tell everybody to watch it immediately.

BakuryuuTyranno I don't usually like horror movies about criminals or delinquent types (e.g. "The Wilderness"). I know there is an audience for films where everyone's constantly swearing, threatening each other and generally being unpleasant, but I don't really understand that.Here, the characters have some motivation for being thieves, one's the admittedly cliché type who's trying to get away from this lifestyle but is required to do one more job. The other members aren't exactly against living like that but this heist will improve their lives. They might have wanted out also, not because of moral reasons however.However, obviously this plan doesn't quite work - partially because the more moral guy doesn't get along with the other members, but also because there's vampire zombie critters running around.There's also another character hunting these critters, and, well, the film feels more ambitious than standard zombie films, with some surprising developments occurring throughout. Definitely better than I was expecting.

lovecraft231 A bank heist goes horribly bad when (what else) the dead come in for food.As far as recent Urban Zombie movies go, "Dead Heist" is better than "Zombiez," but worse than "Hood of the Living Dead" and "Gangs of the Dead." That's not saying much, especially when you consider the fact that "Hood" and "Gangs" are bad movies too.The dead here are cut from the same cloth as the speedy zombies from the "Dawn of The Dead" remake and the infected from "28 Days Later" and it's sequel, only generic instead of interesting or frightening. The gore is nothing new, though the fact that the dead can only be killed by being shot in the heart (and you're to blame...) is a poor attempt at trying something different.As far as acting goes, Big Daddy Kane does the best job. He's not good, mind you, but he does the best job. Amusingly, while Bone Crusher and E-40 are advertised as staring in it, yet they aren't in the movie for very long-Bone Crusher appears in the beginning as a patron in a strip club so tame it could have passed for MTV's "The Grind", then disappears. Meanwhile, E-40 has less than 5 minutes of screen time as a porn director, and gives a "alright, where's my paycheck already" level performance. The rest of the cast ranges from a dead ringer for Vin Diesel to the white female cop, a white businessman thinking of joining the Nation of Islam (ha ha), and plenty of stereotypical gang banger characters.While not the worst recent Urban horror movie, there's still nothing worth recommending here. I have no idea whether or not the fact that this reminded me of the "Attack of the Street Pimps" bit from "Hollywood Shuffle" is a good thing or a bad thing. It's probably a bad thing.

Exit_Music This movie's plot was so simple and easy, that it's a wonder how the filmmakers could mess it up. I understand that these people didn't have the biggest budget in the world, but they had everything they needed to make (at best) a mediocre movie, and failed MISERABLY.The first half of the movie explains all of the character's motivations...and it works. Asides from some dialog, I enjoyed the first half. I wasn't expecting to relate with any of the characters or even like them, but I did. Some of the characters were really interesting and you could understand why they'd want to leave 'the life' behind. Then comes the 2nd half of the movie.The 2nd half of the movie throws out all of the character development out the window and we just can't wait for these people to die. It's as if the writer of the 1st half let his little nephew still in Junior High School finish the script. Some parts are damn near insulting of one's intelligence towards the end.Even though I hung my head down in shame in some parts that could have been gold, I give the filmmakers respect for some of the visuals in this movie. The filmmakers had all the right tools to make a decent flick, but in the end, it's missing something that is supposed to make a movie watchable...a decent script.3/10