Evil Kneival

Rating: Null/10 (1 May 2003)

This had all the ingredients for a disaster, a director whos credits include Mortal Kombat & Event Horizon, a cast of unknowns led by a model-turned actor (Fair Game with Cindy Crawford anyone?) and the the most ineffective CGI since Michael Madsen gurned his way through thriller-by-numbers Species.
So imagine my surprise when the fetid debacle i had imagined turned out the be a low budget and very effective zombie/shoot em up. All the elements were in place from the zombie fodder gung ho lead men and the surly tomboy ala Michelle Rodreguiz, and it cracks along at a fair place which never lets up until the predictable ending.
Even the hand-me-down effects are quite endearing and lend a real 1980s feel to the film, all it needed was a camp chain-mail villian with porn tache and a matching stick chewing action hero who takes his name from a particularly venomous snake.
8/10