Sadly Over-hyped

Just so...so bad

Excellent, a Must See

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

The plot interest in this is that its set on Alcatraz. Apart from that nothing stands out, except that its surprising Levar Burton took this gig. Nothing really stands out as noteworthy or worth remembering.

Shocker of shockers, this is a piece of crap. I know this news will startle many of you. How could this possibly go wrong, you say? A cheaply produced zombie flick with bad special effects and a cast of has-beens and never-weres? It has classic written all over it. Yet somehow this master formula fails. It would be easy for me to blame the movie's failure completely on the Hollywood Squares cast led by Mariel Hemingway (who, no joke, I thought was deceased) and the now-elderly and overweight Danny Trejo. But the cast is only a symptom of a much larger disease: namely The Asylum, the absolute worst production company in the industry today. Possibly worst ever. They make all that terrible SyFy channel garbage we all watch and hate. It's become popular in recent years to bestow some "so bad it's good" badge upon these movies. That's unfortunate because it just encourages more subpar waste like this is produced. This movie sucks. Don't watch it.

The best thing about this movie was not knowing who is in it then seeing them on screen, saying "Oh, it's Geordie (Burton), it's Ash (Linberg), it's Machete (Trejo), it's Randy (Suplee), it's Harry (Stewart) Whoops, I just gave away the best part, no need to watch now.But seriously; the cast is great, I like them all, the script was a typical zombie movie script, what is to be expected, that is not the problem I had with it, zombie movies are B-grade by definition. It was how ordinary every other aspect of it was, they must have blew their budget on the actors because the technical side of it could have been done better by teenagers on a hand held.It was really sad for those actors to be caught in this movie, Burton was the only one who really stood out, but personally I think he should have directed it. 3 from 10.

What do you want from a zombie apocalypse movie? Social commentary? Rich symbolism? Literary dialog?Or, do you want wicked zombie gags, overacting, cheesy dialog and B-plus acting by B-minus actors glad to have the work?All my friends from paragraph two, welcome to "Rise of the Zombies." You will not be disappointed.A standard-grade zombie movie is the best you can hope for from The Asylum, whose previous living-dead efforts include the aptly named "Zombie Apocalypse" and better-than-it-deserved-to-be "I Am Omega."But the low-rent production house ups its game here, with some decent location shooting in San Francisco, some really gross zombies, more- than-decent acting turns by Jordi Kunte Kinte Reading Rainbow LaForge and the sane Hemingway sister, and a performance by Machete that's everything you expect and nothing more, because what you see is all he was paid to do.The Asylum seems to excel at zombie movies because they're cheap and easy. What's nice is, despite that, they seem to be having fun making these pictures and that fun is evident on screen. "Abraham Lincoln Versus Zombies" was a freakin' hoot. And the aforementioned "I Am Omega" was a more enjoyable adaptation of the Matheson novella than Will Smith's blockbuster ever could be.That's not so in some of The Asylum's other efforts, like its haunted house or found-footage movies, for example, which are boring and sullen. So, let's encourage the good stuff in the hopes it'll make more of it.This one's definitely worth the buck-and-a-quarter at Redbox.