Dead Rising: EndGame (2016)
Not Rated
Starring Jesse Metcalfe, Dennis Haysbert, Marie Avgeropoulos, Keegan Connor Tracy, Billy Zane, Jessica Harmon
Directed by Pat Williams
The Story:
Chase Carter (Metcalfe) returns to expose the Army and General Lyons (Haysbert) as being behind the zombie outbreak. They've been discredited, but if he can get hard evidence this time, everyone will have to believe him. And when he discovers that Jordan (Tracy) is alive and has been experimented on, Chase puts the entire mission on the line to also save his friend.
If this review sounds vaguely familiar, it was about this time last year that I reviewed Dead Rising: Watchtower.
Welcome to the sequel, and it pretty much picks up shortly after the end of the last installment.
That said, there's a few tonal shifts in this movie.
Gone is Rob Riggle as the comic relief in the news studio.
Instead, they often cut to the various chess pieces that make up the overall story until all the parts can be linked together at the end.
Again, nothing that reinvents the zombie genre, but if you enjoyed the first one, it's definitely on par with that one, minus the comic relief.
I think there were a few more zombie attacks this time around, and some pretty good set pieces with the folks fighting for survival.
Plus a crazed Billy Zane as a mad scientist, so you've also got that to look forward to!
Final Grade: C+
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