 
A group of soldiers lead
by a tough as nails Sergeant Nicotine
Crocket (Alan Van Sprang) and a group of
hillbilly hunters lead by Patrick O'Flynn
(Kenneth Welsh) are struggling against
the living dead while going to a harbour
to take a boat to an island off the coast
of North America with others fishing up
zombie's and shooting them in the head as
well as killing some on a boat while
landing on the island and hoping for a
cure to return their un-dead relatives
back to their human state.
When they enter the island they travel to
a farm area which almost looks like local
residents only to find out that they're
zombie's along with some survivors owned
by Seamus Muldoon (Richard Fitzpatrick)
whom is very unpleasant and has deadly
plans for all of these people by using
them as targets for these zombies in
which he kept Patrick's daughter Jane
(Kathleen Munroe) whom is part of the
living dead to practise on the survivors
with what she will do to them.
I enjoyed the
previous sequel which was a found footage
titled Diary of the Dead
but this film really bit the dust.
Well... there were some effective moments
like the great dark scene's with rednecks
fishing for zombies and shooting them as
well as a military taking a boat to an
island and killing off more zombie's
there too but the story on this was very
rushed.
The scene looks quite fun when they land
on the island and drive to a farm area
and the picture really fools you seeing
locals like a mailman delivering mail
only to find out that they're zombie's as
they repeat to what they're doing since
that was the last time they did a task
before turning into a zombie.
There's good settings with Sarge 'Nicotine'
Crocket and his people camping out
in the woods and good close up shots on
him doing target practice with his gun by
shooting decapitated zombie heads in.
There's a nice dark shot on a fisherman
reeling in a zombie and shooting it along
with a harbour zombie coming up
from behind and trying to attack him both
falling into the water.
Many fast action shots on
everyone trying to get onto a boat as
well as shooting zombie's that are on board along with a
good shot on Nicotine lighting
one of them on
the head, then lighting a cigarette and
then kicking him off the boat which added
some good spunk with the situations on all
of this.
A nice intense shot on Nicotine getting angry and constantly
smashing a window glass inside of a
vehicle.
There's also exciting moments with the
army out in the woods near the farm doing
events and playing around with the dead
as well as some creepy moments with some
zombie attacks as well as sympathetic
behaviors towards family members who
turned into a zombie which seemed
touching in many spots. Plus some bad
dudes trying to use some of their
eenemies as a target for the living dead
which seemed suspenseful and intense too.
Good moments with people like him and Tomboy having
a discussion and spotting
a farm area with shots on zombies at the farm going back and
fourth doing things which looked quite
twisted.
There's good shots on each Nicotine and supporting character Kenny lying down on the ground after a fight
with some zombie's laughing and then Nicotine himself acting sarcastic as well as him
suddenly lying lifeless with him getting up and trying to
awaken him and getting anxious and
intense.
A nice close up camera shot with
supporting character Beth lifeless lying near a marsh and Patrick lifting up her head and then she springs
up as a zombie about to attack which
looked good.
There's good shots on the characters near a
farm cattle shooting zombie's and good
side shots on then doing so near the
horse's kennel and other places. There's also disturbing moments with
animals being eaten which may not be for
the squeamish that is if you especially
love horses.
There's a good emotional discussion between Tomboy and Francisco when he is about to kill
himself after being bitten by a zombie
and she tells him it's a sin to do so and
helps shoot him in the head. The conversation
on this looked very touching and strong.
Good close up shots on Nicotine riding a horse along with a
close up shot on Janet looking lifeless while riding her horse
along with great takes on the horse chase
on all of this. There's a good moment
when he approaches her after they get off
the horse with her acting expressionless
towards him and he tries to reach out to
her, next thing she is about to bite him
which showed good timing.
There's good moments with Tomboy held hostage and Seamus Muldoon on the other end taunting her and just
getting nasty looking like a mafia type
of setting.
Also good settings with Seamus taking Tomboy outside tied up
and using her for a target towards the
zombie's which looked suspensefully
done on all that is happening around
them.
A good shot on Francisco walking
in the dark woods and a shadowy figure
zooming by her.
There's a nice strong moment with her telling Patrick off about a
situation and really getting emotional
about it all in which was another good strong moment
between the two of them as daughter and
father.
There's a nice moment with Francisco between different takes walking up and
another take on her as the sibling
standing there and then biting her hand
with the next take on her acting shocked
about it all.
Yet most of it fell flat as it seems that
George A. Romero is running out
of ideas and not knowing when to bring
his legacy to an end. Still, I respect
the fact that he continued on with it and
not letting his remakes get in the way in
which I'd like to see original films like
Halloween and My Bloody Valentine
still carrying on.
Bottom line is this film is hard to
follow and doesn't focus alot by what had
happened last time and is a bit of a bore
and contrived too. But it saves from
bombing with the moments mentioned here.
Otherwise skip this and watch Night
of the Living Dead to where it
started off in which is a far better
flick than this one.
The acting is
fairly good in which lead actor Alan
Van Sprang (Sarge 'Nicotine'
Crocket) lived to play a warrior
in combat. He had a good
masculine look to his part and looking
quite tough too. Also, he performs nicely
when he is aggressive and forceful
towards others making out that he is no
one you want to screw around with too.
His energy was very powerful too. He
certainly came across well for a sequel
to the Romero films like most of
the other lead character actors in his
previous films.
Kenneth Welsh (Patrick O'Flynn) really brought
attention to the audience with his rough
neck behavior and was great with his
gruff words along with acting like a
stubborn older fellow and just bringing
it on with his hunting down the zombie's
along with his shotgun too. He certainly
didn't show a lacking moment at all with
what he had to do in the film. He was
also good by having a sympathetic
attitude too when it came to family
members in which he shows a nice
versatality to his performance.
Kathleen Munroe (Janet / Jane Flynn) portrays two
different roles in the flick as twin
siblings and can be fairly convincing
that they're two different parts. In her
role as Janet she sure knew how to do
well with her emotions and playing a girl
next door too. In her role as Jane she
really knew how to portray as someone who
is dead with her expressionless attitude
and can come across as someone very
different.
Richard Fitzpatrick (Seamus Muldoon) played a perfect
bad ass redneck in which he certainly
came across as someone you definetely
want to avoid with his aggressive
behavior and taunting attitude. He
certainly studied this role incredibly
well. He seemed to come across as someone
like Hitler.
There's a nice supporting role by Athena Karkanis
(Tomboy) who does well with her
powerful speaking and strong
concentration as a soldier in the film.
She came across well playing a tomboy
with her tough as nails attitude. Her
energy was very high and played a perfect
key role to the film.
Sides of necks and
faces are bitten off
Heads are blown off or just bloodily shot
Arms are bitten
Bodies are eaten up
Decapitated zombie heads are revealed
A horse is eaten up
There's some good echoey
low thumping sounds in some spots of the
film. There's of course the slamming
sounds with the fast paced orchestral
violin playing. Also, there's great deep
bass violin playing in other spots too
which sounds loud and clear. The music
was put together by Robert Carli. |
