spazmodeus

Only watch this if you love absurd plot holes and hate sci-fi. I spent 90 minutes waiting for it to get better, but the credits rolled first. It's about as shallow as a puddle, and I'm really angry that movies this dumb get funding, when much more creative and interesting ideas get mothballed. If I explained why I'd have to start including spoilers, and frankly, this isn't worth it. I just feel like I owe a serious warning to people who might be intrigued by a recent "7"-rated movie that appears to explore a sci-fi theme. The writers here seemed to take glee in beating the viewers over the head with their scientific ignorance, but maybe that was a plan, because the gushing reviews came from people who were equally confused about science. I guess there are more people of that sort than I'd like to think. Well, sometimes a good story can make up for bad sci-fi, but even that's completely missing here. This is what one expects from dull students who drop out of college after one philosophy class. Anyway, now to get a very bad taste out of my mouth!

The first ten minutes of this movie were promising, but after that it was basically a zombie romp genre piece - and not a good one. I appreciate a good, campy zombie movie, but this was dumb without being either fun or interesting. Just picture all the worst elements of Avatar without a shred of what's good in Avatar. That's just too much to swallow.

One thing that was done well: Things looked really grimy, and that was cool. The closest movie to this (and superior) is Braindead - also associated with Peter Jackson. But that movie never forgot that it was not meant to be serious. This one started off interesting, then outed itself as a zombie-style humor piece, and then completely lost both threads and spent 60+ minutes being stupid while forgetting to be funny.

I want to warn anyone with half a brain: Do not see this movie! Please! You will sit in your seat and scream "Why is the protagonist such an idiot?" How come he's the last person alive and the power is on? If he so allegedly smart, why is he too stupid to think of trying X or Y or Z or ... ? It quickly becomes obvious that the screenwriters didn't really think very hard about the scenario they composed, they most certainly had no knowledge of the profession of medical research, and most criminally, they just didn't care. I don't want to cite examples because I don't want this post to contain spoilers. But believe me, there are countless examples.

This movie should just be avoided, left alone at the video store, and erased from history. By the time it gets to the laughable resolution, it's really that infuriatingly bad.