Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

bs-33435 Okay, so first of all I do commend the director and writers for trying something different in the zombie genre, but along the way they stumble through many zombie cliches. The film opens on a convoy of survivors trying to get to Harmony, a fictitious city. I'm assuming it's fictional because I don't remember any cities so far north to have perpetual blizzards and yet also skyscrapers (observe poorly designed and obviously fake backdrops in the early shots of the film), seriously it snows all the time, did the zombie outbreak also change the weather? (Actually that's probably a better film idea than this one deserves.) Anywho, after an extremely inane action sequence to explain "how we got here" (that includes multiple silent stealthy deaths by a large crowd of screaming zombies), we learn in the present the main characters hate each other for some reason and dummy A (I will refer to them as such for the remainder of the review for obvious reasons shortly explained) takes care of dummy B's daughter and raises her as his own because "he ain't right" according to dummy A, or some such reasoning to shut up a "daughter" he treats like utter garbage in an apocalyptic situation (seriously, I get he's trying to be stern but it's a world where 99.9999% of the earth was eaten, including her mom, lighten up dude). So, yeah, in a world of complete destruction and death, the only two people that they know of are choosing to be little babies and are feuding like warring neighbors in a FREAKING ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE! Are you kidding me? I'm led to believe in a world of almost all dead that they wouldn't put such things aside, for the sake of the baby girl they are trying to raise? The movie trudges on, more dumbness, dummy A watches dummy B nearly die "cuz feud", then dummy B has a subplot where voices in his head tell him to kill people (okay?), dummy A invites dummy B to dinner, ruined "cuz feud", etc. (side note: the director was obviously a HUGE fan of "The Walking Dead" due to multiple ripoffs, from limb hacking to avoid zombie infection, to "hit everything then hit nothing" good guy aim). We learn the zombies are back and evolving, now they are blind but they hear good. (Not sure how that's a evolutionary possible since evolution is to make a species better hunters, not worse, and they haven't been living underground.) For some reason this makes them...worse? Not sure why? They also no longer spread infection. Sweet. For some reason a pretty lady shows up to be pretty and talk about a survivor story. Seems condoms must be zombie food, otherwise I can't explain why you wouldn't use protection in a zombie apocalypse. Seriously, this is a world to raise a child? Maybe wait until after the cannibals are gone, 'kay? Yep, she's pregnant. Although that subplot means absolutely nothing, other than showin some belly it's never referenced in the movie again. So dummy B decided to cut up the first Uber zombie they met and keep it as a dog or something because pretty lady sees it and rightly shoots it dead because these suckers are pack hunters and he's been calling his buddies for a few days. Seriously, these guys are so dumb. How did they survive 9 years let alone 9 minutes?! Pretty lady is the only smart character, she informs them they are all dead meat, and they await the horde. The child gets unexplainably locked up in the basement so her dad can keep her outside of his view, safe in such situations I know. Things go bad, then well when the characters realize sound is bad (sidenote #2 : Did John K. from "The Office" get drunk and watch this movie and that's where "A Quiet Place" came from? Seriously, it has sound hunting monsters with wicked ears, who are killed by sound, and includes a Dad who dies at the end to save his kid....o crap.) and play some classic rock to mess the zombies up. Works until the generator that has been (conveniently blasting music day and night for weeks) conveniently dies, mid zombie battle. Nice. Dummy B decides to be a hero and lead away sound hunting zombies using his fleshy body instead of, ya know, throwing a rock or something. He gets Rambo'ed by God and shoots everything easily until he forgets to grab a sidearm or any extra bullets and gets eaten and dies and blows up. In that order. (Somewhere along the lines we learned Dummy B is the real dad of the child but he was a drunk and let mom die so dummy A raised the baby, this was an act of self sacrifice to atone for being an idiot. Didn't work. Still dumb.) Movie ends, mercifully for the audience.

Mikelikesnotlikes Extinction feels like a movie that can't decide what it wants to be. Zombie flick or a PG drama about a single Dad bringing up a child. Maybe the writer handed over some scribbled notes and then disappeared.The sets were all well done, with high level production values, but where's the damn story. NOTHING of any interest occurred for long sections at a time. Mostly centring around feeding the kid and listening to her whine. The first hour should have been compressed into 30 minutes.The tension between the men was confusing. Stringing out the audience can be effective if information is fed in appropriate chunks. But we actually need the clues before the end of the film if we're to draw conclusions early enough to care. The 'cliffhanger' wasn't pivotal to the story.On the plus side, I thought the Zombie was excellent. As a hybrid, evolving species it was a formidable hunter despite it's lack of sight. There are no explanations why it might be evolving in this way though. And something that bleeds before it has been injured will probably be weakened, not made stronger.Extinction is a slow film. The only reason a person of my tastes would watch it is for the unique Zombie footage.

Nitzan Havoc If you're looking for a sub-genre that has been overdone to undeath - Zombie flicks and "end of the world" scenarios are a perfect example. On one hand we have the Action films that are tagged as Horror for some unknown reason (because the Zombies are scary for children? Beats me...), and on the other we have many Drama-Horror films revolving around survivors. It's not difficult to guess which group Extinction is from...10 years ago, during the initial evacuations after the outbreak, a bus is attacked by the infected. We are introduced to Patrick (Matthew Fox, whom I haven't seen since Party of Five) and Jack (Jeffrey Donovan), two friends who attempt to save a woman (the wife of one of them) and her baby. Fast forward to present - Jack and his daughter Lu (Quinn McColgan) live right across from Patrick and his dog "Dog", without any contact. The entire plot revolves around the reason for the lack of communication and the history between the two men.While some of you might find the plot intriguing and captivating, I felt too much like I was watching a very long episode of a Zombie soap opera. Not tho mention the story is full of logic holes (like the behaviour and attitude of a little girl who'd supposedly never seen the world but knows exactly how to be a normative child, all things considered) and the conclusion is boring and anticlimactic. Yes, there are some frightening parts involving the infected, but nothing impressive...The acting is only positive feature I can think of. All the cast demonstrates some impressive skills, and I believe they deserve to take part in better projects. Seeing as how fine acting is available elsewhere and I can't say I enjoyed watching this film - I can't in good conscience recommend it. If you ask me - let this one go and watch Hidden or Hell, which are far better and more entertaining post-apocalypse films.

the_doofy This movie was made in Hungary. --Shortly into the movie a horse is shot dead, it looks very real. There is nothing in the credits that says no animals were brought to harm, so once again we have a movie made in a country outside the USA in which animals were killed to save special effects money. I don't like seeing this kind of thing, I guess a lot of people do. --There isn't much more for me to say about this movie, I was disappointed that syfy would promote this, but I guess I'm maybe one in a thousand that even cares about stuff like this --Anyone reading this will probably think, dude, what are you watching zombies movies for if this bothers you. The answer is, the horse has absolutely no say in its situation, its a helpless defenseless creature. A movie company may as well put a large predator into a holding pen with a horse that has no way to move or defend itself, and film the slaughter, slapping one another on the back about a job well done. --Thanks for reading