Transit 17

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 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?

This movie is a pain to watch. Production looks like it came from the 1900s. I started watching it because I saw it in Top 9 on Prime Video for Nigeria. I wonder how it got there in the first place.

I started getting uncomfortable after watching for just 3 minutes and finally tapped out at 15 minutes.

It's obviously a low budget film but they could really do better.

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.

In fact, looking at the physiques of the extras, I'd pay reasonable odds this was a passion project of a gym, or enlisted then for at least two principals and a whole lot of army dudes. There's some imagination in the setting, the plot has a least an attempt at complexity, but the script is pretty average and lapses into cliche and trope. Still, the actors are charismatic, they do make good use of locations and the editing is competent which makes it at least watchable, if not good.