Bad editing strikes again...

Rating: 2/10 (13 May 2020)

This sequel was very disappointing to me because the orginal was flawed but it was still a pretty good zombie movie. This one has so many problems that I might not be able to fit them all into this review so let's start off with what I liked, just as a quick warning this review might be the most spoiler-heavy review I've written so far, so I figured I'd give a warning.
Now this paragraph is probably going to be the shortest because there wasn't much to enjoy the movie had some funny moments but the only one I can remember right now is when Sam jumps on the helicopter and Flynn tries to shake him off. It's kind of embarrassing how I finished watching the movie about 2 minutes ago and I had already forgotten what made me laugh.
Anyway, I can't believe I'm finally doing this, but I have to address this right now. This movie still has the quick and choppy editing so I guess the only thing that was switched production wise was the director. Honestly if its the same editor or a different person, it doesn't matter because their editing is abysmal and they should've left this movie alone and maybe I would've gave it a 5 or a 6. But the editing is just so bad it's hard to ignore.
Now the first movie had some emotional scenes but every time this one tries to have an emotional moment it's ruined by being horribly acted, poorly edited, excruciatingly boring, or just plain hilarious. I honestly didn't understand what was going on half of the time because everyone was dying but the editing was all choppy and I couldn't figure out why. Even the deaths that weren't edited quickly like Doyle's death still aren't very emotional to me because everytime something that you're supposed to feel something about happens the same dang song plays, the song literally plays 5 or 6 times in the entire movie and it is one of the 3 or 4 songs in the movie. I might like the song but it doesn't mean I want it to be the only one in the movie.
Next I'll mention the gore that is either barely shown or over done and there is a lot of blood but there is so much bloody that it kind of devalues the bloody parts because every violent part is either hard to notice due to choppy editing, or just over done.
Now the ending makes no sense because Flynn didn't want to pick up people but once he realizes Doyle died he let's them into his helicopter no question, even though they are dirty and look infected. I personally wouldn't have let those kids anywhere near me and if he was acting how he was earlier, like a jerk, he would've shot them. But in this case it would've been smart to be a jerk in shoot them, even if they didn't sound like they were zombies yet he still didn't know for sure that it was safe.
Anyway half of the named characters are killed in the first ten minutes because the "main" character Don leaves them all behind. Which I personally think is just him being mean and a coward. I mean I wouldn't have went back for anyone either, but I wouldn't lie to my kids about abandoning their mother.
Overall, I had to give this movie 2/10 because the only other movie I could compare this to is World War Z, which I personally think is a worse movie than this one. Also thank you to Jeremy Renner (Doyle), Harold Perrineau (Flynn), and Raymond Waring (Sam) for making an abysmal film more tolerable with your amazing performances.