I just got back from the movie theater and saw this waste of $9.00 movie.  Don’t get me wrong, it was God awful, but it definitely lacked in original scripting and creativity, and had some pretty horendous acting.  It also tried to hard in some of the scenes to be cool and failed miserably. 

Case in point, one of the more main characters, who’s not even a strong main character, has a death scene where he is driving to his certain death to save all the others and allow Milla Jovovich, who plays the heroine Alice, to get into a building where they are running experiments, and which holds the secret antibody to the sickness that turns ordinary people into blood thirsty, vicious zombies. 

While in a flipped tanker, the camera angles in so we see him out of the side window, and he’s lighting up a doobie that he just found in the visor moments after he’s lit the fuse to the dynamite that will kill him and the throngs of zombies surrounding his tanker.  He’s smiling.  yeah, no one in their right mind would be smiling in that situation, and it just comes off as stupid. 

Then there’s the other annoying character, who’s supposed to be a tough woman, much like her character in the “Heroes” TV show, played by Ali Larter.  She plays the exact same “bad ass” character and it just doesn’t come off right.  She’s trying to be Ripley from Aliens, and she’s just not strong enough an actress to carry it off.  Milla herself is ok, but she really doesn’t talk much, and the truth is, it’s mostly her physicality that makes her fit the role of the now supernaturally powered heroin Alice, and not her acting chops. 

This movie is only an hour and half long, and it opens with filler, is filled with zombie cliches and old zombie movie references, and steals from numerous other movies in its concepts, including the Alien movies.  If you must see it, I’d wait for the DVD.  That’s my opinion!