Truly Dreadful Film

Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Tired of hustling on the street, a group of street punks decide to rob a bank, but after getting caught and forced to hide out inside they notice a gang of ravenous zombies attempting to break in and try to hold off the creatures enough to escape.This one had a few good points to it. The main thing with this one is that there's a really nice back-story for the creatures, which makes for some really good times here as, while the medical experiment thread has been done before, this time it actually works for the film. Best of all is that the proposed experiment would actually do some good to humanity rather than just being simply a reason to unleash the zombie hordes, and when it all gets explained, the changes made to them make the creatures a lot better than average zombies. These changes, getting away from the head-shot kill and by forcing them to come out only at night, are pretty great and by incorporating them into the film, make the film really fun. The zombies also have another big plus in the film by generating some big action scenes in here, from the first encounter where they overrun the police force outside in a swarm of bites, ambushes and bodies being ripped apart to the attacks inside the bank that were one-on-one off in the solitary rooms all the way to the full-on assault at the end, there's a lot of fun action in this one. That ending assault is the big highlight action scene here, as it's where they all start shooting up the zombies in a flurry of gunfire, impaling, blood-spraying and much more as it's so long that it eventually just becomes better the longer it goes on, and with some nice bloodshed done as well, it's enough to make it enjoyable. Along with the really creepy, impressive opening, these make this one relatively fun though this one here does have a few rather big flaws to it. For as much good as they do here, the zombies are responsible for two of the biggest ones. The bigger of the two is that, since there's so much time spent on the bank-robbery set-up, they hardly get any real time on-screen besides the opening attack and the fight at the end. They're absent from most of the movie as it forces the film into long stretches of inactivity which are hardly interesting as the film focuses on their struggles for too much instead of the zombie action, and in a zombie movie, that's never a real good sign. The other factor is that they're of the running zombie variety which makes them inferior to the other zombie variety since there's nothing about them similar to the classic zombie model of these creatures snarling and running around at quick speeds. Rather than being scarier, all they do is irritate when something should've been done about it. Aside from these, the next biggest problem some will have with it will be the rather bland dialog in here, since nearly everything in here is cursing of some sort, even in situations that don't call for it, and it's hard to really get into the explanations for everything when they're cursing at every turn. These here are the film's problems.Rated R: Extreme Graphic Language, Graphic Violence, Nudity and a mild sex scene.

I rate movies on how they perform compared to what they are supposed to be. For instance, Jason X is almost a 10, because it is bad and intended to mock the Friday the 13th movies. So that being said, this gets a solid 8. That is an 8 out of 10 for B Zombie movies.SO when I saw the title and the description on my cable system, I had to watch. I said to my girlfriend, "I have to watch this. It has Zombies and bank robbery. Two great movie themes in one. What could be better?" Well, the titles started and I realized this was a Ghetto,Zombie Bank Heist movie. OMFG, it just got better. Kinda like Dead Presidents with Zombies.When I saw this, I then said to my GF, "This could only get better if there was a spy or secret agent or something." Well, halfway into the movie we are introduced to a government agent character whose job it is to kill the zombies. PERFECT! So yeah, this is a B movie. But, as was said before by others, you can tell they tried. This is a fun romp. The acting is weak, but not terrible. Some of the characters are engaging, but not the ones that are intended to be.The camera work is pretty good and the movie flows. It follows the formula for a zombie movie, but that is the point. This isn't avant garde, this is a zombie movie.It is good for a laugh with some zombie loving friends.

Four small time gangsters go to pull off a bank job in a small town out in the sticks that turns into over the top video game type killing of flesh eating zombies. Video game type movies can get away with bare bones no real story line plots like this. Just look at the previews for Resident Evil: Extinction. It's not like they need to write a story for the movie. All they need to do is figure out places for zombies to get slaughtered.D.J. Naylor wasn't good or bad. He was just kind of there trying too hard to be Vin Diesel. E-40 only being shown in the movie on a cameo type role stole the whole movie. Been nice to have him as one of the gangsters fighting the flesh eating zombies. Big Daddy Kane was like a plastic man out there on some parts, then got down on other. The action scenes he looked on his game. When he had to explain the flesh eating zombie story to D.J. Naylor it was painful. Two mellow characters on screen don't work. The rest of the actors didn't stand out either way.The picture was clean. Director Bo Webb did a hell of a good job on calling the shots. The cuts he used to show money, guns, zombie faces, and blood was off the hook. All the time you see one big shot of all the actors like you're outside looking in. In this movie Director Bo Webb brought you in to the movie full on. The camera showed all kinds of detail.DEAD HEIST was right on the money trying to roll a urban movie into a horror movie. It's been done in other movies put out by bigger studios like Tales from the Hood and Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood. The different thing on this movie was it wasn't preachy or silly. It just wasn't pulled off. Good plan. Poor execution. Check it out to see E-40 and what Director Bo Webb did. Both got more movies in the future.

O.k so normally I avoid straight to DVD horrors like the plague (I love the old school cheapo video stuff but this shot on video garbage we see today is really nauseating) unless instructed to do otherwise by a trusted source of info. After reading the synopsis I was intrigued I'm a huge fan of zombie cinema (I know there not strictly "stenches" but you've got to take what you get these days) and also a hip-hop head so seeing Big Daddy Kane and E-Fonzarelli in the cast led me to take a risk and watch this film. I must say I was pleasantly surprised, with a little more financial backing and solid acting this could have done the rounds at cinemas everywhere especially after the strong showing of films such as the Dawn remake and more recently 28 weeks later. Big Daddy Kane was a pleasure to watch as the hunter, while Kanes no Brando he glides along on the charisma hes's shown since his rap heyday. The plot is tight and original the blending of genres here mesh well although heist films and zombie films often take on a siege setting so it isn't much of a stretch. The acting is decent and the direction although derivative is of a certain standard. The only real let down of the film is the special effects and make up it's really bog standard and the final scene is really let down by this. The films run time is only around 75 mins so it rarely has the chance to slow down and begin to annoy.All in all it was a good effort all round maybe 6 is too generous of a rating seeing as some classic films fail to hit that mark on the IMDb but it's early in the A.M i'm tired but happy so what the hell. Long Live The KANE