Great visuals, story delivers no surprises

Absolutely the worst movie.

an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Attempting to transfer a dangerous criminal, a group of Interpol agents find their quarry interrupted by a viral outbreak in a small Serbian town turning the residents into bloodthirsty zombies and must outwit the creatures in order to carry out their mission.This here was quite the impressive and wholly enjoyable zombie effort. What really gives this one a lot of enjoyment is the mostly Action-film mentality this utilizes throughout here by basically making it so that there's almost a non-stop stream of attacks and encounters throughout this which is quite a bit of fun. With the opening chemical release coming in the early minutes of the film and basically forcing the fun escapes at the train-station, it turns into a rather fun series of encounters with the convoy coming under attack while out in the open roads as their truck-stop diner encounter where they first come under true attack by the creatures with the gutted zombies coming towards them with their inner organs falling out which is a highly impressive visual. Likewise, the majority of the film's fun action-packed encounters come from its two big set-ups as there's the assault on the abandoned police station with the other survivors there to help in taking out the creatures, assisting the barricades and generally making for an extra few bodies to pile up in terms of kills with the ravenous zombies breaking in and then taking on the group in a strong series of firefights that's highly enjoyable with all the bloodshed and wounds doled out in here. The other big scene is the attack at the end at the train-yard where the remaining group members try to get through the trap laid out for them by the hordes of zombies and fight off the resurrected creature in the midst of the rescue attempt which manages to be really fun with the great use of weaponry tactics provided that makes for a rather fun time in this to end it on a nice high note. With all the other encounters provided by the lone gunman who wanders throughout the city killing off the various creatures found in here, it makes for an even more thrilling time with this giving the film a little more pace and time to balance out their mission until they finally get to the creatures which gives this a lot to like from the action-packed encounters. Being filled with great-looking zombies that are suitably rotting and grotesque which makes them look all the better against the graphic, blood-splattered carnage, this film has a lot of positives that hold this up rather nicely. There's not a whole lot really wrong here, and the majority of that tends to come from one area in that the film's action scenes are so horribly overdone with the shaking-camera styled shooting and rapid-fire editing that it's nearly impossible to make anything out here. The action scenes here are so chaotic and messy that a lot of the fun tends to get washed away here as this one whips through a dizzying assortment of camera tricks trying to inject unneeded life into the proceedings when it would've been just as fine to keep the camera stationary and just let it play out as it does. Along with a few instances of being overly obvious of its budgetary constraints at times, its' all that really holds this one back.Rated R: Extreme Graphic Violence, Language and Nudity.

While en route to Pancevo, Serbia to pick up a dangerous "prisoner" (played by Emilio Roso) some Interpol agents find themselves in the middle of a zombie outbreak and realize that their new mission is now just trying to stay alive. Anyway, for a low-budget, Serbian zombie movie this particular film wasn't too bad. The special effects were adequate, the action was brisk, the plot was decent and I liked the performance of Kristina Klebe (as "Agent Mina Milius") and to a lesser extent that of Ken Foree (as "Agent Mortimer Reyes") and the aforementioned Emilio Roso. But the script wasn't that good and I couldn't stand the role of the insane warrior known as "Armageddon" (Vukota Brajovic). Way too hokey. Be that as it may, while I am probably giving this movie a bit too much credit I must say that I have certainly seen worse zombie movies than this. Accordingly, I have rated this movie a little higher than most reviewers. Having said that however, I should also point out that I enjoy movies in this genre and I appreciate it when the director (in this case Milan Konjevic and Milan Todorovic) tries to make a straight zombie movie rather than something supposedly humorous—or even worse—a film that tries to be "so bad it's good". In any case, I can understand it if others don't share my opinion concerning this specific movie. Again, it may be something that only zombie fanatics can appreciate.

This one is another zombie flick from a non-Hollywood production. In the passed years we have seen so many movies based on the contamination-turns- men-to-zombies from around the world (even Thailand). To be honest, this particular movie could have been much better 'cause the atmosphere is good and creepy, the zombies are greatly done and the action is OK. But all this package is ruined by the poor (to non-existent) performance of the actors/actresses and the bad -not to say crap- lines. BUT -yes there is a BUT here- if you're a fan of those bloodthirsty creatures called zombies, walkers etc and you love to see shooting, chopping and all the relevant stuff these movies produce and provide, you can gather some friends, make some popcorn, watch it and then, turn off your DVD and just forget about it.

Zone of the Deadstarts as US interpol agent Mortimer Reyes (Ken Foree) prepares for his last assignment before retirement, he is to escort a prisoner (Emilio Rosso) to Belgrade with assistance from local rookie agent Mina Milius (Kristina Klebe) & his long term partner Dragan Belic (Miodrag Krstovic). While driving through the city of Pancevo the convoy is attacked by a horde of flesh eating zombies, neither alive or dead these creatures kill & devour their victims. The agent quickly realise what they are up against & decide to form an uneasy truce with their mysterious prisoner in order to survive the zombie hordes that infest Pancevo. They decide that their only hope for survival is to make it to the river & steal a boat to sail to safety but with no ammunition the odds are against them making it that far...Also known as Apocalypse of the Dead this Serbian, Italian & Spanish co-production was written & directed by Milan Konjevic & Milan Todorovic who must take the blame for making such a piece of crap, even as far as low budget European zombie films go Zone of the Dead is awful. Both technically & conceptually Zone of the Dead reeks, where do I even start? Zone of the Dead is probably one of those films that you need to endure yourself to truly appreciate how crap it is. The story is never properly explained, from the opening sequence with the skeletons to the random military train of toxic green gas that revive the dead (Return of the Living Dead anyone?) to some of the worst dialogue & moronic character decision making you are likely to see. There's a bizarre scene at the end in which it looks like several dozen zombies are sunbathing in perfect alignment (no, I have no idea what was going on) & instead of going around them Reyes decides to walk right down the middle when some screaming zombie in a gas mask comes along & wakes up his undead mates in a really quite surreal moment that made zero sense then & still makes zero sense when I think about it now. The dialogue is equally surreal, I think it's obvious that neither whoever wrote this or the actor's who had to recite it are native English speakers which leads to baffling line deliveries & silly facial expressions, it just doesn't sound like people talking & the phonetic broken English style the dialogue is delivered is just bizarre to listen to & watch. The only reason I am giving this crap two stars instead of one is one neat reference to the classic Dawn of the Dead (1978) in which a character says he feels they should lock themselves in a shopping mall but Ken Foree scoffs at the idea & says it work! Slightly amusing, nothing else. Also keep watching as the end credits come up, after a minute or two there's an ultra low budget reenactment of the opening sequence from the classic Italian splatter zombie film Zombie 2 (1979).Besides being a terribly written film Zone of the Dead fails to deliver the horror aspects too, whenever there are zombies on screen the camera shakes about violently in a way that I just hate. The zombies randomly change from slow shuffling ones to fast running hyper active ones & they all seem to roar like Lions. No, I don't know why. The blood & gore content is also disappointing, there's some blood splatter, some minor flesh eating, a few gory zombies (one has it's guts hanging out) & a decapitation but it's very quick & the effects are quite poor. Forget about any scares or suspense as this thing is a real chore to sit through, it drags & is so blandly filmed in boring locations that I can barely remember it & I only just finished watching it twenty minutes ago.The IMDb says that Zone of the Dead had a budget of about $1,700,000 which I think is total rubbish, there's no way a film this cheap looking & badly made cost that much. Filmed in Belgrade & Pancevo in Serbia. The acting is poor, most of the local Serbian actor's are forced to speak English which none of them seem particularly good at. The legendary Ken Foree needs a better agent & is wasted.Zone of the Dead is awful, there's nothing else I can say as it has just about every zombie cliché in the book, is badly made & acted & has no sort of coherent logical story to maintain your interest. Zone of the Dead is one of those terrible films that the only thing worse than watching it is watching it again...