Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Powerful

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Well after reading some of the reviews my husband and i decided to watch this film There is so much we disliked about this awful movie but first thing was that the acting was terrible. The plot was so simple and excruciatingly painful to watch. One scene in particular we had to endure was at least 3 minutes of the one character, can't even remember his name as it wasn't worth remembering, smoke cigarettes in the van while his partner was outside with the zombies looking for the keys. Another scene we had to sit through was the other character masturbating while watching a female zombie claw at the van window. Really????? Please people, ignore this movie like the plague!!! Oh, and the ending just plain sucked as well!!!

This is clearly not a horror movie. Well, at least not the kind of horror movie that I am used to. I have heard about slow burn movies but what about movies which don't have a payoff at all? The Micky character..Jeez, what a whiner! I was expecting him to just run away in the end and leave his friend to be eaten or something like that. Why not, at least give a shocking ending in the end. Give me something. I didn't just spend 100 minutes to see a lot of arguments and songs. And why are there so many songs? Is this Bollywood? And even a dance. I was rolling my eyes at the dancing and the annoying songs in the middle which spoil any sort of atmosphere they want to build. I guess they can pad the run time by including all these songs.At the hour mark, suddenly I was curious about what is going on. I thought that this is the time the movie perks up. Something like Dead man's shoes or something. I was getting ready for the second half. Instead I get another long sequence in the car with a bunch of songs and the guys playing around. And the zombies? These must be the most useless zombies ever.What about the Orchard? I didn't really care much but the way they built it, I was expecting something towards the end. That is fine but at least don't bore me by showing them brush their teeth and play baseball and all. A few kills would not interrupt whatever nonsense these two were doing.I did laugh at a few points. It is not totally boring if you don't expect a horror movie. But even then, I couldn't stand that Micky character and I was getting a little tired of the unnecessary songs. Edit out the songs, expand on the Orchard and voila - there is a decent movie. Maybe not a horror movie but something good. Some points for some interesting scenes. Masturbating at a zombie and all. I think my problem was that I expected a straight forward serious horror movie. A rare commodity these days.4/10

This seems to be one of those horror movies that really polarizes the audience. I guess, in many ways, you could say that's true of most of the horror genre, but some movies seem to really push the divide among the audience.On one hand, I've read many really positive reviews of this movie, not just from places like HORRORHOUND and FANGORIA, but on the boards and reviews as well. Then, check out a site like NETFL*X and skim the reviews and it's full of one stars proclaiming this to be the most boring zombie movie ever. After watching this movie, I think that my opinion is that both sides are probably exaggerating their view a little too much. Those who love this movie would have you believe that it's some indie horror triumph, a classic of character study. I think, at times, it just becomes hip to praise a movie because others said it was good. Yes, I think that the two actors in this movie did an excellent job for a low-budget chiller. I did think that the director (and one of the stars) did an admirable job of building the relationship of these characters through the course of the film. That doesn't, though, excuse the fact that vast patches of this movie contain nothingness. That is not to say that I'm totally on board with those who would have you believe this is a boring failure. There are always going to be fringe zombie fans who hear "good zombie movie" and expect THE WALKING DEAD. This is not a movie that the average blood and guts fan is going to enjoy. There is little zombie interaction, almost no gore and little action. The viewer has to appreciate a movie with a little more of an artistic leaning, but with all of that said, the movie spends far too much time dwelling in its' characters that little ever happens to make this movie memorable. A huge chunk of the run-time feels like someone's home movie of their vacation to the zombie apocalypse. It's just two guys wandering around, listening to headphones and playing baseball. I can appreciate a movie that wants to take time to develop, but I need certain beats along the way. I need to be propelled into feeling like something is truly developing. Instead, I found myself checking my Twitter account now and then because all I was missing was another shot of one of the characters munching on an apple or staring into space while bad indie rock plays.I'm giving it a 6 because my rating system says that 5 is average, and I believe that this is slightly above that mark. I give it a lot of credit for trying something and I think that the director has a future. Like most young directors, though, he needs to learn that being an intelligent movie is not always enough because, in the end, we all watch movies to be entertained foremost and this most didn't do that enough for me.

Zombies are the most fun of all movie monsters, fun for a bunch of reasons. A crucial one is that the zombie world where humanity has been overturned and streets are empty is so malleable and so easy to explore and imagine. What would you do? The zombie discussion over drinks practically guides itself, invites a spontaneous storytelling.This film is one of those discussions that a group of friends turned into a film. Two guys walk around a zombie countryside somewhere in America trying to make do, encountering the occasional zombie(s). The result is guaranteed to be more organic than say a vampire saga; the makers didn't have to worry about the whole chronicle, it was enough for them to place themselves in the zombie world for improvised edges of life to follow.They don't bother with a story of explanations or longwinded scope, far more effective to convey the collapse is for one of them to simply turn on the car radio and get nothing but static.So this alone ensures it's interesting to watch but inbetween these moments of survival, there's empty time that has to be somehow filled and leaves room for an artistic self to come to the fore. And so while the limitations of the zombie world guide them to pluck some worthwhile scenarios, this artistic self that bridges them (and is about youth languishing with nothing to do) is merely cute.Every so often a different song plays over a montage of them sitting around or walking, probably the same indie songs the filmmakers like, lazy after a while because it's a short-term music video effect. And the whole last segment with the two of them trapped in a car, the zombies are here concealed and it becomes about the two of them hanging around, they get drunk, mop and fool around. You might as well imagine it as the livingroom where they bantered about what turned out to be this film, one of the two guys is actually the filmmaker.So the creative self shows here clearly in the midst of things, it always does. It's not dishonest, it's a snapshot of who these guys are, filling the gaps with what they would do, being dudes; it's just not interesting to watch.They only barely pull back at the last moment from a trite finale, probably realizing it would have been too cute even for them.