Fine effort though there's some problems overall

Rating: 7/10 (29 August 2012)

After finding himself the lone survivor of a disastrous world-wide plague, a man interrupts his struggle to battle a swarm of bloodthirsty mutants to save the few isolated pockets of humanity left.
This one wasn't all too bad but really had a couple points going for it. One of the main issues here is the fact that far too much of screen-time is devoted to areas that aren't that thrilling or exciting, really tending to drag out the first half here. From the daily routine and interacting with the dog to him scouting the city with the mannequins spread out in the different stores and just driving around not doing anything, it all leaves this one with large amounts of time where not a lot happens. Bounding it all with the plague research and scientific investigation into the virus which is pretty much all that occurs here, it doesn't feature much of anything with any real interest that features just very little action or exciting moments to drive this along, and the lack of action really throughout this makes this one limp along so lamely there's very few times where anything actually happens. It's also hard to tell whether or not we're dealing with vampires or zombies here, as the hunting behavior and origins of the virus and how to stop it are straight-zombiedom, while the nocturnal-ness and bloodsucking are vampiric activities, so it's a little confusing as well. There's still the pretty problematic fact that the CGI for the creatures is a misstep by making them look completely ridiculous and fake for the entirety of their screen-time. The last half is a lot better, as while the hunting techniques at the abandoned apartments derive a few scares and the creature's assaults on the fortified house are great action scenes that have some nice gore here and there so it does build to a fine finish, there's enough action to make more of an overall impression though it's still got way too many issues that work against it to overcome them.
Rated PG-13: Violence, Language and violence-against-animals.