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Post by Rictras Shard on Dec 21, 2015 17:44:25 GMT -5
Welcome to the movies. I am Rictras Shard, and I'll be your host. Tonight, we will be going over a charming little tale of humanity on it's last gasp, a film called Extinction.
I'll try to keep the spoilers to a minimum, but be warned. If you travel any further down this dark path with me, you will find out some of the things that transpire.
From the description, this seems like it will be a story of genetically mutated plants. However, it turns out to be a zombie flick. Zombies, why did it have to be zombies? I seem to have some connection with them. Even when I don't intend to spend the night with them, they seem to shamble out of the dark, searching for me.
Anyway, Tom has a problem. He is alone in a military bunker. Everyone he knows is either dead, or missing in action. Oh, and of course, he has an issue with the living dead, who seem to want a piece of that walking beef jerky inside those reinforced walls.
This is not a fast-paced action movie. It is paced more like the first Dawn of the Dead. Tom and the other people he eventually meets spend a lot of time discussing their dillema, and occassionaly try to get a bit of enjoyment out of their rather depressing lives. Every now and then there is some action, but it is more realistic than most modern zombie movies.
As time passes, they discover that the zombies are changing. Most just shamble around, but some can run. Others serve as a dinner bell for their colleagues. An ever-growing number of them seem to practice parkour. And there are hints of other menaces being out there.
That is one rather annoying part of this film. It foreshadows things, but then those things never come into play. At one point, Tom narrates that he heard a massive roar during the night, and then he discovers a number of redead zombies the next day. We never find out what made that roar, in fact, it is never mentioned again. There are other tantalizing tidbits we never get to explore, such as what is causing the zombies to change, and what it may ultimately mean. And since there is unlikely to be a sequel, odds are we'll never find out.
However, it is not a bad movie. It is a bit more unpredictable than the average undead story. There are points where you are certain somebody is going to die, and then they don't. And then there is somebody you are sure is going to betray the group, but they don't.
If you want to see hard hitting action and gobs of gore, you might want to give this one a pass. For what it is, though, it is a decent little movie. I wouldn't pay new release prices to see it, but is a decent way to spend a couple of hours. It gets the official Shard Seal of Approval.
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Post by endo on Dec 21, 2015 18:45:24 GMT -5
Need to see this one. Thanks!
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