Dead Rising: Watchtower (2015)
Not Rated
Starring Jesse Metcalfe, Meghan Ory, Virginia Madsen, Keegan Connor Tracy, Dennis Haysbert, Carrie Genzel, Rob Riggle,
Directed by Zach Lipovsky
The Story:
Chase (Metcalfe), a reporter for Hit Point and his camerawoman Jordan (Tracy) are trying to find a story at a quarantined city in Oregon when they uncover the fact that the government vaccine, Zombrex, isn't working. Chase gets stuck in the city with Crystal (Ory), a woman who has the virus but also has her own supply of Zombrex, and Maggie (Madsen) who just lost her daughter. They have to find a way out of the city before it is blown to bits by the Army under General Lyons (Hasbert) direction.
Video game adaptations are often hit or miss.
Luckily, if you're trying to make a film about killing zombies, the audience will often be very forgiving.
Attach the Dead Rising name to it, and craft a few crazy zombie killing weapons, and you're halfway there.
Provide it a decent script, and you're almost golden.
Thankfully, they managed to do all of that in this film.
It keeps your attention throughout and unlike certain episodes of a certain zombie show, things actually happen. :)
Add to that the hilarious interplay between a reporter (Genzel) and previous survivor (Riggle) as the outbreak drama unfolds. If only the news were allowed to be like that in real life, it would make it worth watching.
I didn't catch it when it was streaming on Crackle.com, but did check out the DVD from Netflix a few months later. Again, I'm all for any and all of these services offering up alternatives to big studio films.
The more movies, the merrier.
Anyway, if you like zombie movies, you'll probably enjoy this one too.
I did.
Final Grade: C+
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