This is really underrated I think. The TV episode format maybe makes it not be considered as a film, but as it's just 5 half hour episodes, it's easily doable in a one-er.
An excellent zombie film that ticks the formula boxes all the way through, but with a knowing edge. The framing (ie a zombie outbreak in the Big Brother House) is really unique to the point that the plot beats being formulaic was necessary for it to work.…
The one surprising thing about this film was that despite the fact that it's not one of the 'official' James Bond films, and therefore isn't canon to all the others, it still basically feels completely the same as watching any other old Bond Film. But one of the worst ones. It's just not all that good.
Rowan Atkinson in his first (small) role on the big screen was a fun cameo.
In some ways this was better than I remembered in but in other ways much worse.
I liked:
- Jeff Goldblum
- The effects
- The volcano... in fact the whole sequence on the island
- All the callbacks (some subtle, some in-your-face) to the original film
- The mystery about the little girl's origin.
I disliked:
- The ludicrous B-movie horror monster that is the Indoraptor;
- All the storyline concerning the Indoraptor;
- The plot;
- The ending;
- The resolution of the mystery about the little girl's origin.
Nice to see a Titanic film that seems to really want to present the facts. The inquiry strips away much of the hyperbole and dramatic 'heroes and villains' which in 1912 were cast by the press, and whose exaggerated legacy for some, still lives on today.
Really strong acting performances, a hidden gem of a movie.
