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Honestly I don't know where to start with this one. It really has 'Netflix original' written all over it. The characters act like a group of children most of the time, getting into fights over the most benign things. How this got such a high score I don't know. Race and religion plays a huge part and each supporting character is basically a stereotypical representation of their race or religion (though the ethnic minorities get a little less of this) though this is again an indicator of it being a Netflix production. As for the science in this science fiction series, the writers seem to have spent about 5 minutes on Google and Yahoo answers getting their information as anyone with a basic education in science can spot huge flaws from medicne, chemistry, biology, physics even aviation it is clear that the writers have never sat in a lower education class covering any of these topics and they never bothered to research anything. I'll use one example (without any spoilers) as a specific "what on earth were the writers thinking" moment. At a certain point one of the characters needs surgery and said character has to get the surgery in a "clean sterile operating room with medical equipment" once at the operating room there are characters walking in and out of the (totally not sterile, they just moved a dead guy from the operating table and put him to the side) operating room, none of them wearing even basic equipment like gloves and masks. This is just one example of the series "plot A leads to plot C" mentality. Everything revolves around the extremely fragile plot and if something happens, it's because the writers needed to fill up another episode. If you want a "crazies on a plane" series that takes up twice as much time as it needs then you're in for a treat. If you want a science fiction thriller that is somewhat believable with characters who are relatable and not just caricatures of their respective nations and pop culture then I suggest you avoid this hot mess of visual Valium. It gets a star for the music though, I liked that; however it's a TV series and not a synthwave CD.

I watched the movie over the course of two nights, so I guess that says something about it not exactly keeping you on the edge of your seat. The premise the movie is set on is okay however like all movies of this era it squeezes in a political message and after an hour or so of bland storytelling the movie tries to hand out a twist (or three) and all but one I could guess would happen long before they actually did. The one twist I didn't see coming is so chichéd in films it hardly deserves to be called one, I guess I didn't see that one coming as it's a poor plot device (There were many other alternatives) to explain why the start of the movie is the way it is.

All in all I feel every copy of this film should be confined to a dark chamber, never to again see the light of day.

Three stars for decent actors.

I got to 30 minutes in. Movie is terribly directed, with terrible actors and full of mistakes. For example; the zombies are directly stated to not have a heartbeat, yet there is arterial blood splatter everywhere. Somehow rifles such as AK47s have become the criminal norm in London, to the point of gangs having multiple AK style rifles. No NATO country uses AK pattern rifles therefore not including the few owned by gang members before the disaster they would not be anywhere near as common as NATO weapons which would be used by police special response units and then the military. There are working military vehicles sitting abandoned that haven't been stolen The rounds fired are all very clearly blanks. At 25:42, whilst describing gang warfare in the zone it shows a number of blank rounds on the ground (very obviously visible due to the crimped ends) It's like the director played a few (bad) zombie games and thought "this will make a great movie!", don't waste your time, the action is boring, not at all believable and the actors are terrible. Spend your time watching something else, Birdemic or Sharknado would be better wastes of your time.