It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Dead Rising: Watchtower is NOT a film about zombie Jehovah's witnesses, knocking on doors, handing out copies of their magazine before chowing down on unsuspecting homeowners. That would have made for a far more original movie than this, which is routine medium-budget zombie fare from start to finish.Inspired by the popular video game Dead Rising, Watchtower opens promisingly enough, with a fun 'drop the viewer in the middle of the action' scene in which online reporter Chase Carter outruns a zombie horde, battles a zombie cop, and comes face-to-face with an axe wielding zombie clown. Cut to a few days earlier, and we join Chase and his camerawoman at work, filming a story about a zombie suppressant called Zombrex, which prevents those bitten from 'turning'. While they are there, the drug suddenly loses its effectiveness, resulting in a new outbreak.What follows is a 'seen it all many times before' fight for survival against ravenous flesh eaters, Chase joining forces with a pretty infected woman (a user of Zombrex) and a bereaved mother (Virginia Madsen). Meanwhile, unscrupulous military types put into motion a plan to secretly control the populace. Yadda yadda yadda.The film boasts decent production values and a reasonable cast, and director Zach Lipovsky pulls off a couple of neat set-pieces (Chase mowing down zombies with a sledgehammer/rotary saw combo, and his tense escape from a forklift truck surrounded by the undead), but the film is hampered by its derivative plot, an over-reliance on CGI gore, and the fact that it is waaayyy too long at just two minutes short of two hours.5.5/10, rounded up to 6 for the zombie clown's 'death'.

Dead Rising is a popular zombie themed third person action/adventure franchise from Capcom. Dead Rising: Watchtower is a boring, half assed, generic c-grade zombie movie.What is genuinely upsetting about this movie is that it could have been something special if it actually used the campy themes and over the top action of the video games, but instead it's almost paint by numbers-esque in it's execution, with only very minor details lifted from the game.Porn parodies have more in common with the source material than this movie.Also Rob Riggle as Frank West does not work at all and whoever wrote the character for this movie has never played the games as his attitude and lines are all kinds of wrong.Don't bother with this one.

...and luckily I also quite like a bad one, too. Which is just as well, because 'Dead Rising' isn't that good (but then it's not that bad, either). In case you didn't know, it's based on a computer game. And, if you didn't know that, you probably did know that movies that are based on computer games never really fair that well.You have a city. You have zombies. You have survivors trying to get out. If you're expecting something with tension, heart and character development (and zombies, of course) then stick to the Walking Dead. However, if you just want to see zombies sliced up by weird and wonderful (and very sharp) home-made weapons, then watch this. Part of the enjoyment of the computer game was that you could 'craft' weapons by sticking a lawnmower on the end of a toaster (or something like that) and then mowing your way through the undead hordes. Well, that's basically what the film does, too.The characters are a clichéd and the story uninspired, yet I can't quite bring myself to dislike it. It's the sort of film that I'm pretty sure I'll forget shortly and then remember in a few years time and watch again. No, I won't buy it, but I reckon that if I can find it for free on Netflix or whatever then I'll happily sit through it again and chuckle here and there.If I had to say one majorly negative thing about it, it would be that it never really seemed to know what it wanted to be. One minute it's quite 'knowingly cheesy' with its silly antics – the next it's trying to be all dark and conspiracy orientated.If you can stomach – yet another – zombie film that's simple 'popcorn fun' then you could give this one a go (especially if you don't have to pay for it!).

I didn't know this was based on a video game. Or was the video game based on this movie? Doesn't matter to me. I won't buy the video game and I also could not watch this movie all the way to the end. Yes, it was that bad. What I did see was bad dialogue, decent makeup, lots of blood and acting like they did no retakes. I found myself skipping ahead several times to the action scenes. This was because what the main characters had to say wasn't important. Are they ever important in zombie movies? Skip this farce and do something, anything else. Like read a book. NO zombies! :)