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I do not usually watch HK movies due to it being filled with low quality commercial craps banking on famous celebrities.

However, I was interested in this movie after seeing Barbie Hsu getting a nomination as Best Actress in HK film awards and knowing that it is based on Hollywood version "Cellular". I knew, I have to watch it.

To my expectation, this movie did not disappoint. The directing and acting is pretty solid and Barbie Hsu does deserve the nomination. This one have more action than Cellular and to those who can relate to the HK culture of this movie will find this better than Cellular. There are movie subplots in this one than in Cellular which adds up a little more plot holes (or rather cheesy parts) but for the better.

I also like the fact that the director decided to go with multilingual where some of the actors are allowed to speak their native tongue of Mandarin as to doing voice-over of Cantonese. It made the whole movie much more believable and watchable. The only part I really dislike is the voice-over for Louis Koo which was badly done and clearly is not his voice.

Overall, this is one of the better movie I have watched from HongKong for a long long time. I cannot remember watching any action movie as good as this that does not sacrifice good acting and storyline.

Strictly only for fan-boys who drool watching their favourite characters appearing on screen. For the rest of non-fans, they are only stiff movie characters with bad acting.

A disappointing movie. A waste for such a great franchise and use of animation. Too much emphasize on the characters. Not enough on the whole t-virus and zombies issues.

For a movie done using animation, the limit is the imagination. They could have done something of a bigger scale. Something big that nothing life-action can do. But they wasted this in trying to develop some characters. End up giving the feel of watching some in-game movies. Such a shame for this good franchise.