New film from the Director of Dogs Soldiers and The Descent. A deadly virus has been contained inside a wall that surrounds Scotland. 25 years after the first outbreak the disease reaches London and a team of army types need to go back into the forbidden zone to find a cure that may or may not exist.
Pros:
- Director Neil Marshall does Horror well. And by well I mean bloody.
- Kind of a mixtures between 28 Weeks Later and Mad Max 2 and 3.
- Hoskins
- Violence, violence, violence,
- Completely fucking ludicrous action sequences and car chases.
- Rhona Mitra is hot action chick
Cons:
- Sometimes ludicrous to the point of "What the fuck?"
- South Africa does NOT double well for the Scottish Highlands.
- Cringy cringy dance routine to the Fine Young Cannibals "Good Thing". The song chosen more for the bands name (irony) than for the quality of the song.
- Goes from one ridiculous set piece to the other with little in the way of actual plotting.
- Lots of great potential clashes (knight on horseback versus chick with guns for instance) never really get to their full potential.
