Runtime:
96 minutes
Directed
by: Yannick Dahan, Benjamin Rocher
Starring:
Claude Perron, Jean-Pierre Martins, Eriq Ebouaney, Aurelein Recoing
From:
Capture The Flag Films
Yep,
I am returning to the world of recent French horror, even though
every one of the movies in that category I've seen, I've not really
liked at all and I thought were really overrated, despite what many
hardcore horror fans think otherwise. I went with this one as it's on
Netflix Instant, I've heard other people give praise to it (despite
what I just said about watching other movies that people have
praised), and the plot... well...
The
plot, stolen from the Instant description: “When
four corrupt policemen invade a gangster's hideout near Paris to
avenge the death of their colleague, they quickly find themselves
outmanned, outgunned and trapped. That is, until a legion of vicious
zombies swarms through the building.”
It's
important to note that there's really no explanation given for why
there's a sudden outbreak of zombies, or how they are able to destroy
Paris so quickly (despite them being fast-moving zombies), or heck,
why it should be known to everyone early on that it takes a shot to
the head to dispose of one of the creatures... that is not even
taking into account the zombie lore that everyone knows by now due to
how they've become such a popular thing in recent years; in this
world, the first undead appears in the room that everyone's in and
they shoot him in the body and he's not stopped and it takes a
shotgun blast to the dome for it to finally be disposed of, and they
can't figure it out with that and additional evidence that's pretty
much right in their face? Lord... and there definitely are further
plot holes that I won't get into, although I don't know why so many
zombies descended upon a condemned building that hardly had anyone in
it.
More
problems is that the movie really has no sense of humor and I did not
like any of the characters at all. I suppose I should have suspected
that with the plot I knew of beforehand of there being dirty cops and
gangsters, but really, it was difficult for me to care when all of
them were stupid and/or A-holes. This wasn't awful and I did not get
as mad as I have when watching other recent French horror, but AGAIN,
why do these get such praise? I guess they don't work for me,
although at least I have explained why I have had big issues with all
of those motion pictures.
If
you do still want to see it, there certainly is a lot of violence,
blood and gore but that was not enough for me to like it. I'll be
back Wednesday night and I'll try to be more punctual.
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