sloulos
Ι have seen tons of Zombie flicks, big budget, low budget, no budget at all etc."To Kako 2" is by far one of the most annoying movies of the genre. I understand that the second movie moved fast forward to a straight up comedy (the first one had balance and it was really really entertaining) but instead of being funny, its just plain annoying. As for the plot is a total mess. The whole go to past and come back to the present is done in a way to get to your nerves. Bottom line the whole script is like a cut and paste of various ideas thrown around and not single one of them is presented like it should. Too bad that the people responsible for the good first movie (Kako) managed to killed their own creation with the second one. The only good thing in this movie is only the gore factor. But gore cant save a z-film if the story who keeps it interesting belongs to the bottom of the toilet.Too bad that one of the most annoying z-movies ever made comes from Greece.I wonder how the Greek Cinema Centre (belongs to the state) and Audiovisual (major distributor company in Greece) decided to finance this total mess.
Coventry
This is splatter/comedy for a very select audience, with a lot of inside jokes and tastelessly absurd gore, but very little substance and style. This is a sequel to "Evil", a zero-budgeted amateur zombie movie that came out in 2005 and unexpectedly grew out to become a modest cult hit. The budget for the sequel was much higher, but apparently all the cast members were volunteers. "Evil in the Time of Heroes" implements a bizarre and unappealing narrative structure that constantly jumps back and forth between Athens in ancient times and present day. In both eras, the place is infested with zombies and only a small handful of people (courageous warriors in the past and random losers in the present) remain and battle for survival. Out of nowhere Billy Zane ("Titanic", "Dead Calm") shows up as some kind of prophet slash Jedi Master and he shepherds the pack of undisciplined survivors in their fight against the living dead. How about that? Billy Zane speaks Greek and appears in a crap horror movie for free? The make-up effects are often splendid and the film contains numerous very creative killings sequences, but the lack of subject matter and character development quickly gets on your nerves. The whole thing is hectic, very incoherent and desperately tries to appeal to the comic book fanatics. This is fun & relaxing for about ten minutes, but what remains is a completely immature and easily forgettable "just- another-zombie-comedy"
cezyb
I did go into this expecting to be frightened and instead I found it to be absolutely hilarious- but that's not a bad thing! The characters are funny, if a little shallow, but this is a horror movie so what do you really expect? The film even plays on the stupidity of the horror movie plot conventions (especially relevant to Zombie films) and the characters therein by making no effort to hide the ridiculousness of their survival, adventures and the plot line in general.I'm not Greek, as I realise some of you other reviewers are, I'm British and I still thought it was fantastic; I saw it at Edinburgh film festival where a respectable crowd watched it laughing in unison at the funny bits and clapping at the end. For such a low budget film it was great, I don't really know what people expect a low budget film to be able to do with 'Hollywood Effects', they cost an arm and a leg and often are just as silly if not worse than this film achieves.Sure the plot was unlikely, the effects were questionable, but all in all it was funny, entertaining and I was more than happy to suspend my disbelief and just enjoy this bloody brilliant little film from a country only making around 30 films a year!(numbers given by the film's director who did a little talk and was a funny man himself) I would fully recommend this as a comedy-horror film.
DrNeruat
This sequel of the 2005 movie has the same purpose as the first one:It's there to entertain,it's not a horror film it's a zombie parody, a Greek everyday parody, an ancient Greek parody.When I saw this, everyone was laughing in the theater.It's a FUN movie,gore is everywhere in a ridicule way,heads are popping in the screen all the time, the lines are simple but quite entertaining with pop culture references flying all the way,we see zombies in mantles and tunics ,the scenario is 100% predictable but really,who cares?-Don't see it if you want to feel horror emotions-Don't see it if you want to see any depth in scenario /character development.-Don't see it if you want to see any Hollywood-like effects.-Don't see it if you want to see astonishing actors and actBut I highly recommend it to any (Greek) that wants to have 88 really awesome minutes.The visual effects are good for Greek standards ,bit comic like deaths,but you can see the increase in budget to the first movieArgyris Thanasoulas (Argyris) and Antreas Kontopoulos ( Lt.Vakyrtis) are the only notable actors that play above average, the rest (big crew) is mediocre at best.The story begins on the end of the First ''Kako'' movie.The survivors meet up with a group of other barricaded survivors and they not only need to take care of the zombies but other random Greek that have taken advantage of the chaos and shoot random moving targets (zombie or not). In the meantime we take small flashbacks into ancient Greece where the zombie apocalypse has happened as well and we learned about how they faced them.In my opinion this is the way Greek cinema should move on. We will never have the CGI or the scenario background or the huge budgets to go face to face with international movies,so we rather parody them.As for foreign people ,you might get a DVD release of this sooner or later in the US,I'd only suggest you if you really want to see every zombie movie out there since the Greek jokes and culture references might not touch you.