In #ExplainAFilePlotBadly fashion, "Russian nerd films as his comrades getting killed one by one." I like that hastag, that hashtag is fun. Also "Insomniac punches self in ear, others join club." One thing I always wondered about that though, what was going on in the second guy's head? Cause in the film he asks for the next fight, but really he would have been asking one guy to fight him when that guy appeared to have been fighting himself.
So anyway back to Doc Frankie and his messed up pets. This is a "found footage" film. Which, normally, I fuckin hate. I normally hate these films cause the camera work is poor, intentionally yes, but intentionally poor is still poor. The filming in this movie is actually done very well by found footage standards, You could almost not know it if you started watching 20 mins in. And it's only really relevant a few times when the camera is dropped and one guy makes a messages to his parents. So this movie I'm okay with it being found footage style.
The actual plot, explained a little better, is as follows. During WW2 a small Russian scout team is out on recon when they start hearing a distress call from another group of Russians. Their radio then begins malfunctioning, but the sarge insists on moving to help the other unit. They wind up entering a town where the only inhabitants are some weird half-living, half-dead, half-robot.... things which the film actually calls "zombots." And despite how fucking silly that sounds, it's actually a fairly accurate name. The zombots, are the creations of "the doctor" a crazed nazi scientist using bizarre machinery to animate half corpse half metal abominations almost all of which are extremely hostile, and difficult to kill. From here things go roughly the way you'd expect. There's a reason pulled from a hat to prevent the guys from doing the sane thing and saying "fuck this, I'm out" then dropping the mic and heading to literally anywhere else.
The film is not great. It's not bad, but all in all it's just not terribly interesting either. It kinda just meanders around for an hour and half doing stuff. The film has a 2.9 average rating on netflix, and that's about right for this. It does get a small allotment of credit for being strange and not fucking anything up. If weird horror films are your thing, then maybe try this movie out. If not, well maybe skip this one. What this film would probably actually be really good for, would be a mystery science theater style joke fest with a buddy or two. It's well done enough that it's watchable and silly enough that it could provide some decent fuel for jokes.
5.5 mad scientists screaming "IT'S ALIVE" out of 10
The sixth guy just said it, he didn't scream it.
No comments:
Post a Comment