Johnny Z

No pun intended - the movie is quite nice for a low budget affair. You have to like the ferocity and the passion they bring on the table! Stunts are well done and the action is really well shot (as is the whole movie by the way). Still all that being said, the movie has its flaws and you really have to like that kind of stuff in general to really rally behind it.

Poster looks nice and gives you a first look into the mindset of the filmmaker. Actors are well chosen too. Characters are interesting and the movie knows its audience. So be wary what you want to watch or do not like to see ... and act accordingly. I have seen worse, but I have seen better too of course.

The description makes it sound like something slightly different and intriguing. However after a few minutes. We could easily see how low budget and nonsensical this piece of filmmaking is. It's supposedly a zombie film but the genre feels extremely dull, generic and simply boring. The tone is severely off, no thrills, no suspense. It feels more like a borderline drama- without any drama.

The camera angles to several fight scenes are filmed in an amateurish way. The acting isn't great either, nor are the characters. Whom we don't exactly know who is who or even remember their names.

Overall there is just a lot lacking to make this movie any worthwhile. The story's execution is terrible and worst of all it's boring. We simply don't care for the title character of Johnny Z.

From start too finish i was hooked if i had the funds i would put it into the next one, The story line is great and leaves many doors unopened for the next film, The charecters played there roles extremely well and were well chosen for the roles, Bad points i have to agree with a critic said there is not much premtive background at the start of the movie your kind of just thrown into it not there exact words, i understand this point and to retaliate i say that this wasnt the point of the movie from what i can tell and yes there is multiple ways this world could have played out rolling into the breakout of patient Z but it has enough detail for what it is to keep it going and hook the veiwer, The graphics and gore is admirable all in all for a low budget film its a 10/10 from me i hope a good few movies roll of this i cant wait for the next one peice and love CM.

In a genre that is drowning in poor story lines this one could have been interesting. Not unique, similar things have been done before. But the problem is the acting and pacing. I am also not sure how they chose their leads. It didn't seem like they had a martial arts background, or if they did, they didn't use it to the best of their ability. And bad acting can be fun, if there is something nice to look at, but in this movie most of the extras are more attractive then the leads. So again, not sure how they cast for this. But if you love all things Zombie, it's worth a watch, but if you only like well written and acted zombie movies, or even poorly acted or camp movies with hot leads, you will want to pass.

After escaping from a government testing lab, a half-human/half-zombie escapes into the wild with a helper who manages to turn him over to a friend who manages to teach him martial arts as a means of defending himself in a zombie-plagued world, but when the government agency tracks him down must try to survive.

This was a big disappointment with a lot of factors holding it back. One of the main detriments on display is the wholly confusing and convoluted beginning that really makes it hard to get into. As we're dropped into this story involving a dystopian wasteland overrun by zombies and a government corporation experimenting on an individual to be able to develop a curse from his blood, the lack of context without any kind of preamble to set it up is immensely difficult to follow. The clandestine nature of it all, the vagueness of what's going on, and not filling in the blanks are all a part of what helps to make this feel way too twisted and scattershot from what it could've been. It doesn't help that this highlights the second real issue in that it's way too ambitious for what it really is. An obviously low-budget affair rife with the kind of flimsy effects and small-scale production despite being set after an apocalypse, that's not even enough to overlook the convoluted storyline here that pulls off way too many aspects that it doesn't need to. Containing a highly over-the-top and far more twisting narrative as we have to deal not just with the master/student relationship being built up over their training sessions as well as the race to recover him that seems to have way too much going on, all of which end up lowering this one overall. There are some aspects to really enjoy with this one. When it works is the use of the Action and Horror elements being mixed together. Featuring a ton of impactful martial arts sequences with the use of training scenes between the two or the series of battles here which might not have the type of fancy choreography expected, the hard-hitting and continuous action here focusing on the training sessions, the interactions at the undergrounding fighting club with the other zombies, or the final half which is a massive series of hand-to-hand or weapons-filled battles provide a slew of high-energy scenes filled with cheesy gore and bloodshed. Alongside the fine zombie makeup for the creatures, these provide the positive points here.

Rated Unrated/R: Extreme Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.