joihn bailey
Usually stick to conspiracy theory and apocalyptic films rather than zombies but caught this one on Spike TV(UK) and was mighty glad I did.Definitely not the usual frenetic slasher zombie fare but an altogether slower thoughtful one with great haunting music and evocative old school animation.Particularly thought that Mark Gibson in the lead role was very nearly an acting tour de force.Only two criticisms;1)the first part showing the protagonist's anguish and journey was overlong and could have done with a bit of trimming and 2)being English I sometimes struggle to understand North American accents,especially when mumbled or whispered, made doubly difficult with this film due to the incessant overbearing incidental music score,However well worth watching.
finetunes
My summary statement is not accurate; I couldn't get through more than 25 minutes of the movie it was so boring! Twenty five minutes of crying felt like twenty five years. Casting call - need male lead who can cry for an indeterminate long time. Must be able to cry in post-bellum Southern-American English. I wonder if there were a lot of takes on those crying scenes. It's likely that the director finished with an initial edited movie of no more than 17 minutes and he had to pad it out. Maybe I'm being unfair in my assessment of the movie but if one is completely bored to death for the first 3rd of the movie then it's too much to ask the viewer to finish it.(I don't know how Stanley Kubrick got away with it in "2001, a Space Odyssey)". (Even with being on hold with my heath provider that whole time I was still too bored to see it through). Sound track - not for a zombie film, it sounded like they hired a 2 fingered keyboard player. For those reviewers that loved the movie, I suspect they were ringers, friends, cast and crew members and, without a doubt, the backers (maybe not the backers cause this was so low budget it didn't need backers.) The only thing remotely original in this train wreck of an abortion: the concept of having a crybaby as the lead in a zombie movie... never been done before. And for that reason I give it a one star instead of a zero.Initial movie title - "OH! The Humanity."
imrational
I would probably consider this the best zombie movie of 2012. Keep in mind that there weren't much going against it. The latest Resident Evil movie was decent, but nothing really new.Exit Humanity it a total B-Budget zombie movie done right. It is slow paced, which I know some people would hate on, but I enjoyed. The director got the atmosphere right with this one. You end up caring about the characters. Acting is well done, along with the settings and music score. Make-up was the only thing that really showed this as a B-Budget endeavor.I would be willing to invest in a future film effort by this director. He's going to go up in Hollywood. Other directors have tried to do historical zombie movies, but this was the first one to actually do it well. He obviously strived for "epic" movie, and managed to succeed. Well done sir!
fran golber
Unfortunately, Geddes trots out every zombie cliché, hoping that a little 'Ken Burns' gloss can make it seem like an original take. Sorry – after the previous decade of 3rd-party perspective, secondary characterexploration and vampire/zombie treatments of classic literature, the POV is waaay beyond played.Just trying to view the film on as a straightup zombie tale , ignoring the borrowed comic-book flourishes and delusions of Tarantino - it still becomes unwatchable. A hero with an endless supply of ammo, wary of attack yet constantly and obviously strolling into danger....it would be a snore – except the threadbare plot is too annoying to let the viewer sleep.