Any surgeons out there? You guys and girls will especially "enjoy" this nonsense. You will be like Mike and the robots from MST3K doing a running commentary, and that goes for the grand finale in which the main characters attempt to engage in DYI cranial surgery. Without anesthesia. Without sterilized instruments. This absurd premise is pushed so far that the main female protagonist (who is amazingly stupid) drills a hole into her own head, while standing, and without any pain-killers. She then places a handkerchief over the wound (kinda like bringing a hammer and nail into the orbit to fix a NASA shuttle) and then goes into fight mode vs the zombies. A scene so dumb I could swear Stephen King had written it and Argento directed it. With De Palma acting as adviser.
The characters do everything to make their own extermination as easy as possible. There is certain logic in panic-stricken people making wrong decisions, but these five just do and say way too many dumb things. For example, the curly hair guy keeps touching everybody despite being told that a major infection has taken over.
That main female character comes off as a moron who just sits there and stares at walls, pondering what to do after the realization that she's pregnant. As if the viewers give a hoot about her pregnancy. Apocalypse or pregnancy? Yes, I'd say the former wins.
What gets the movie some points is the somewhat original premise of a Facebook-like evil conglomerate causing the zombie plague by lobotomizing their viewers to use the site more. That explains why the symptoms are nearly exactly the same from person to person. Sure, it's a bit reminiscent of "Pulse" or "Pontypool" and a few other films but it's not reminiscent of 1000 movies - at least as far as the explanation is concerned. As for the zombies, they're stereotypical fare mostly.
Michelle Mylett, the one who drills a hole into her own head, is unfortunately a symptom of our dumb, twisted age: an anorexic actress whose arms are as thin as my fingers. How the hell does a mentally-ill approach to diet become the social norm - and a sexy look! Naturally, she's flat-chested as well, because there seems to be a conspiracy in American show-biz as of late that no chesty women are allowed into movies or TV. This is very obvious and blatant discrimination and I'm amazed that nobody seems to have picked up on it - especially large-breasted women who should feel annoyed and disrespected by it.
The characters do everything to make their own extermination as easy as possible. There is certain logic in panic-stricken people making wrong decisions, but these five just do and say way too many dumb things. For example, the curly hair guy keeps touching everybody despite being told that a major infection has taken over.
That main female character comes off as a moron who just sits there and stares at walls, pondering what to do after the realization that she's pregnant. As if the viewers give a hoot about her pregnancy. Apocalypse or pregnancy? Yes, I'd say the former wins.
What gets the movie some points is the somewhat original premise of a Facebook-like evil conglomerate causing the zombie plague by lobotomizing their viewers to use the site more. That explains why the symptoms are nearly exactly the same from person to person. Sure, it's a bit reminiscent of "Pulse" or "Pontypool" and a few other films but it's not reminiscent of 1000 movies - at least as far as the explanation is concerned. As for the zombies, they're stereotypical fare mostly.
Michelle Mylett, the one who drills a hole into her own head, is unfortunately a symptom of our dumb, twisted age: an anorexic actress whose arms are as thin as my fingers. How the hell does a mentally-ill approach to diet become the social norm - and a sexy look! Naturally, she's flat-chested as well, because there seems to be a conspiracy in American show-biz as of late that no chesty women are allowed into movies or TV. This is very obvious and blatant discrimination and I'm amazed that nobody seems to have picked up on it - especially large-breasted women who should feel annoyed and disrespected by it.