Transit 17

Unbelievably bad POS movie

As a low budget filmmaker, I know the hardships and limitations when there are limited funds. The actors I have in my series Dead Nightmare on YouTube were free and are better than the ones in this cluster of a film... We're talking poor pacing, poor acting, & the plot/story takes forever to get into action... The backdrops, equipment, & wardrobe was cool... but that's it. If you love low budget B films, the you can give it a whirl. Otherwise, stay clear.

This was a Dollar Tree pickup and I realized within minutes that I overpaid for this. I'm not sure what they did with the post production on this, but for a bit I thought the thing was actually CGI rather than live action shot with a cheaper HD video camera. The sets replace any real dressing with masses of video screens, meanwhile. The director stars as Tex and has an ever-evolving generic southern accent (and a tendency to say "massa-cure" rather than "massacre", and as bad as the male actors are, the women are *worse*, apparently cast for shapeliness rather than talent. Not that it matters; the script is a bowl of cold, lumpy oatmeal.

I don't know if you can categorize it as a zombie movie. The script is predictable, you already know that someone is going to die and is going to become a "zombie" and also those who are going to survive the journey. (For all gamers the movie's dots are some small similarities with The Last of Us even the sound of clickers)

To have several martial artists the fights are very clumsy. The camera work poorly focused on some points, * this is very personal but to me at some times the audio was poorly synchronized I don't know if someone has the same problem or it was just me. The poorly crafted VFX I know is a B movie but there are also videos on youtube with better quality effects than these.

So why the hell did I watch the movie? once again I saw her for Joosten and once again I don't believe her in her performance, of the times she is supposed to convey some emotion she always makes the same face does not convey emotion towards the viewer.

I managed to cure the entire movie. So some of us suffered and took one for the team, so you don't have to. Stay well clear of this movie, unless you are a diehard fan of Stefanie Joosten for some reason.

This being a zombie movie, of course I had to sit down and watch it. And the movie does have an above mediocre rating - as of May 13th 2020 - here on IMDb, so it couldn't be all that bad. Right?

Wrong!

This movie was a swing and a miss. And I have no idea what went on when writer and director Guy Bleyaert when this movie was written, much less understand how it actually made it to the screen.

The idea might have been well-intended and worked well enough on paper, but translated to the screen, it just didn't go all that well. Personally, I didn't care one ounce about the story, especially because it was less than mediocre script writing, so the movie wasn't really off to a great start.

As for the acting in the movie. Well, let's just say that you will not find yourself in for any award winning performances that will bedazzle you or have you riveted to the edge of the seat.

The movie just lost me entirely when the zombies were introduced. It was little more than people with fuzzy hair and really lousy Halloween costume slapped on their faces. It was atrocious. And that was actually what made me give up on the movie. I just couldn't take that serious.

My rating of "Transit 17" is a generous two out of ten stars. At least they tried to make a zombie movie, eh?