THE DEAD TIMES

RATING:

ZOMBIE RATING:

DESCRIPTION:

Reporter Chase Carter heads back into the Zombie-infested quarantined zone of East Mission City to stop a lethal military conspiracy.

MY VERDICT:

That description up there is the best way to describe this below average film; short, simple and to the point - just like the movie itself. You see, after about the first ten minutes of watching, the entire story is laid bare in a single conversation - there are no plot changes as Chase and his crew go on their mission. This makes for a fairly mundane and formulaic viewing experience; there’s nothing overtly interesting to pull you in or get your mind working, even the original story of the secret military conspiracy is a bit boring, being the annoyingly obvious outcome of every infected person getting implanted with a military-issued microchip at the end of Dead Rising: Watchtower. Another major problem is the worrying situation where I found myself sarcastically asking if there were actually Zombies in this Zombie movie. It sounds bizarre but it is not until fifty minutes into the film before any real Zombie confrontation shows up. Still, the movie is not a complete waste. The ending has Chase battling hordes of new, fast Zombies (each curiously hairless) in a lab, grabbing whatever he can find as a weapon to hold back wave after wave of merciless attackers, throwing breakers of random (and often useless) chemicals at them in desperation - it’s definitely the highlight of this massively disappointing movie sequel.