The Dead Island

This movie was a wast of my time. The solders had pictures of grenade's on there jackets?

The main female actress was very bad. Story was bad, special affects and make up were average.

In an isolated island in South Pacific, there is an outbreak in a top-secret military facility where Colonel Aiden Wexler (D.C. Douglas) is researching biological weapon. Ten years later, a small squad is sent to the island to investigate the status of the facility. They shall contact their helicopter a couple of hours later; otherwise the place will be bombed and totally destroyed. Along their journey, they are attacked by zombies and when they reach the building, they find Aiden alive. Out of the blue, Dr. Mikaela Usylvich (Maryse Ouellet Mizanin) that is assisting the mission discloses that is Aiden's daughter.

"Isle of the Dead" is another lame Sci-Fi production, with another terrible story and awful acting. The zombie story is senseless and the situations are quite ridiculous. Why a military squad with a few soldiers should be sent to a doomed island ten years after an incident? If the intention would be to see whether there are zombies or not, wouldn't be easier to monitor using a satellite? The insane Colonel Aiden Wexler contaminates Pugh and attacks three other soldiers. Why he was not killed when he was found? Instead, the survivors bring Aiden, who is contaminated, with them. My vote is two.

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A team of soldiers are sent to an island where a reclusive doctor has been working on a deadly virus programme, soon they find themselves fighting off a horde of zombies for survival.

For an Asylum production this is an above average offering from director Nick Lysons. Thankfully it's played serious and benefits from an on location shoot rather than cheap sets. The zombie make-up holds up for the budget. Christopher Cano and Chris Ridenhour score compliments the great cinematography by Laura Beth Lov. This is where Lyon's and crew shine. If nothing else Isle of the Dead looks fantastic.

It features enhanced zombies with plenty of head shots, blood and a nice amount of gore. It's a pity the overuse of CGI takes you out some moments. Writers Jacob Cooney and Brandon Trenz screenplay is at times overtly talky, borrowing dialogue from better films.

The cast are a mixed bag. Notable is Maryse Mizanin with an accent to die for as Mikaela Usylvich who has some memorable moments. D.C. Douglas as Colonel Aiden Wexle echoes Day of the Dead's Richard LibertyLogan, while channeling William Shatner.

Overall, it's yet another addition to an already saturated genre, but in its league it's one of the better additions. For Asylum, it's Best Picture and Director worthy.

... this movie is a rank insult. Unless the Seals are suddenly recruiting any old gormless moron who wanders in the door, then this clueless, unobservant, gang of chestbeaters, wimpy screaming females who can't fight worth a damn, and an annoyingly smug 'french CIA scientist' woman (I assume that's what the peroxide queen was meant to be..?) is just a joke, right?

Sigh.

This is kind of more like a bad military action movie with incidental zombie enemies...

Watch if that's your thing :)

Of course I would have to sit down to watch a movie such as "Isle of the Dead", given the fact that it is another zombie movie. And anything even remotely zombie will be appealing to me.

However, I didn't really have much hope or expectations for "Isle of the Dead". Which turned out to be for the best, because this was a very generic and mediocre movie, even for a zombie movie.

The story was adequate enough, though. It is about a small group of soldiers set afoot on a remote and isolated island where they are to discover the disappearance of a previous group of soldiers and also to seek out the chief scientist of a research facility.

It does seem quite like a simplistic storyline, doesn't it? Well, right, because it was. But hey, most zombie movies can't really boast with having intricate and elaborated plot lines and story lines. However, it turned out to be fair enough.

As for the acting in the movie, well I will say that people were doing good enough jobs with their given roles and characters, and taking into consideration the magnitude of the script and storyline. However, it was a shame that Sydney Viengluang didn't have a bigger part than she did, because she does perform quite well in the "Z Nation" zombie TV series.

The special effects in "Isle of the Dead" were actually quite good, taking into consideration the production level of the movie. However, they tended to fall into that classic error of zombie movies, where they put lots of make-up on the face, then forget about the neck and the rest of the body. A classic and stupid rookie mistake to make.

One thing that didn't sit well with me was the über-zombies, the ones that got out of containment and were able to speak and make coherent thinking and planning (for some reason). It just added a level of stupidity to the movie. And also, the ridiculous showdown between the two über-zombies towards the end of the movie was just like a slap to the face with a dead herring. Wow, that was awful.

All in all, then "Isle of the Dead" turned out to be a very genetic and mediocre addition to the zombie movie catalogue. There is nothing noteworthy to be had in "Isle of the Dead", and whether or not you watch it will have little impact on your extended take on the zombie genre.

Now that I have seen it, I can check it off the zombie-watch-list. However, I doubt that I will ever make a second trip back to watch this ever again.