There are apparently worse things than dying...
The Story:
Bart Gregory (David Anders) is a soldier in the military who gets killed. However, he winds up coming back to life, and with the help of his best friend Joey (Chris Wylde), he decides that it wouldn't be so bad if he killed bad people and used their blood to keep him alive. Theoretically, he's doing the rest of the world a service.
Ah, the best laid plans of the undead...
I'm torn.
I'd been on such a great streak with all of the Zom-Coms this year, this one seemed to be heading down similar territory.
Instead of going for full-on vampire or zombie, they used the old myths of the Revenants, corpses that came back from the dead and needed to feast on blood to stay alive.
However, the movie then changes the tone by having the best friend get turned also.
Okay, now we have buddy revenants out for a good time...
But then they come back to the original love story from the beginning...
And the movie seems to lose direction...
Then boredom began to set in.
: /
And don't get me started on the meandering, "totally lost their way" 3rd act.
It's like a movie that had no idea how it wanted to end, or find a way to execute it.
The final decisions aren't bad, and partly clever. The beat-around-the-bush way of getting there though downgraded a movie that started off with a fairly strong premise.
Ah well.
Final Grade: C
Rewatchability/Purchase Factor: Have to say no to both.
But tomorrow, the scary weekend is redeemed!
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