swurly2008
How dare any of you compare this to Starship Troopers, which for a long time was one of the best cult classics. Starship was one of those movies that when it was on t.v. you knew it was gonna be a good night. Anyways, Re-kill? Watch it high. My biggest gripe with this movie is, just call them zombies! You know, that term we've already branded the living dead for probably thousands of years? You don't need to invent a new term for them, and if you do, that's fine, but switch it up.
FlashCallahan
After a Zombie Outbreak, the majority of the world's population has been wiped out. The R-Division is trying to eliminate the last of the zombies to avoid a second and final outbreak and rebuild the worlds population. Their operation is filmed and shown on television as a reality show. The seasoned sergeant commands a team of veteran soldiers and despite their experience, there are usually casualties. When they decide to investigate a compound, they find an army with a horde of zombies.......Re-Kill has been in limbo for almost four years now, so it's no surprise to find my new favourite straight to Blu-Ray action star in nothing more than an awfully clichéd supporting role, together with an awfully awful American accent.An fate seeing this, it's quite clear why no one has picked it up, because despite the fact that the first act really sets this up to be a Starship Troopers-esque satire of zombie films with a found footage element to it.And then it just all goes for a Burton, as it turns to nothing more than a shoot 'em up in the vein of the movie version of Doom starring The Rock, but with a lesser budget and the bad guy from Passenger 57 as some gung-ho conspiracy nut.Every once in a while, the action stops for a commercial promoting the repopulation of the earth, also known as selling you a bit of cheeky cheeky.Once or twice for the ad is funny, it looks like they made an effort to inject something different to a tiring sub genre, but then it's the same ad put differently over and over, and the gimmick begins to wear your patience.In the end, it gets confusing as to who is who, why have they done that, and where are they going with the horde of zombies? But no, none of the answers are explained fully, and we are left with a sour taste of reality TV overload, which the film thinks was a clever idea.So all in all, it's pretty poor effort, which is a shame, because it's a wonderful concept, and in the right hands, it could've been something special.But Verhoeven already did it in 1997, and I doubt he'd want to repeat a mild success.A sad waste.
thesleeplessunite
Truth be told, when I first read the summary of the movie, I wasn't all that big on what was possibly going to come my way and then I started to watch because we all have a little time on our hands to kind of sit there and watch something that we think might be crap, but has our interest anyway. First off, the movie itself is about zombies - or "Re-Ans" as they call them. There's the usual conspiracy that the government were working with biological stuff and it got out of hand. There's the zombies and they run ... fast - who do zombie things: attack, kill, eat you and move on and then there's the teams deployed out to "re-kill" the "re-ans."First watching it, I was mostly sitting with the movie just playing because it's a rather patched together piece of work. It's like watching TV with all the adverts and that's ... annoyingly well presented. The "sex - do it now" - adverts could have been dropped out, they were pretty much useless, but it's a B-movie so ...But then the storyline came along. Now, for any zombie fans who like things like: -The Last of Us -Resident Evil -Z-Nation -The Walking Dead -28 Days/Weeks Lateror basically any biological weapon film that induces us as humans out of a natural state of order to flesh-eating cannibal creatures that nearly destroy us completely - I'd recommend giving it a watch. It can be easily left to run while you get distracted, but the director has done a good job at kind of reeling you back in for just one second that makes you wonder how you got to this conclusion in the first place. The characters - yeah. You don't really get attached to them, any of them, no matter if you feel sorry for them, it's not like you suddenly choose who your favorite is out of the squad. They're not a Daryl Dixon suddenly for you on first appearance, but when they die, they die good. There are a few jump scares if you really start paying attention ... but for a small movie, it's just another zombie invested thing.Make up is good, the zombies are brilliant, the storyline could have used a bit more in-depth to it all but ... I'd recommend it to those who like watching the apocalypse - with zombies. Don't forget about the sex adverts tho.
jackmeat
My quick rating - 6,3/10. Nice to breath some fresh air when it comes to the tired zombie genre. Sure the apocalypse has already happened so very little background needs to go into it but from there the movie follows a team of soldiers in a reality style TV show to eradicate the zombies. Sounds fun, right? It is but not full on action at all times. Slight drawback that is easily filled with the highlight of this movie. The reality style of the camera work is great but the star of the show is the wacky future commercials done in the same vein as Starship Troopers, Running Man, etc. The whole feel of this movie as just so well done that the plot of finding out the secret behind the walled in part of the city was a backseat to it. Our stars did fine (notably Scott Adkins) in acting for this type of movie and also overacting when needed. Along with this, the gore is there for all fans to enjoy as well. One fun ride to be had with this one and just a bit more action along the way (even if stretched out for the sake of over-indulgence) would've been just fine for this critic. Still well worth the wait and look forward to watching this movie again.