Not quite the first, but awesome none the less

Rating: 8/10 (18 July 2009)

I have to admit, seeing this after seeing two really terrible sci-fi crapfests probably helped my opinion (The Black Hole and Supernova--low budget St. Louis gets destroyed films), but I really enjoyed this from start to finish.
One, if not the only, flaw in this movie for me was that you really would have to have seen the first one to get this one. They do a brief synopsis of the first one at the beginning (I assume that's why) but it's not enough to make up for not seeing the first one, so I advise seeing the first one before seeing this one.
This action packed movie has no boundaries on who it kills off, or how far it will go. Many horror movies are afraid of killing children, in this one a whole school of zombie kids is there, dead and ready to kill right along with their adult counterparts, brave and kick @$$ move by the directors.
Most zombie movies make the zombies unimaginably slow and extremely stupid, while both are true in some scenes, it's not true for the most part in this movie.
I still don't understand how the experiment zombie flesh mutating thing is in this movie since my understanding was it was killed in the first one, and it was a one-off failed experiment, now there's three of them and they are killed fairly easily. . .the learning curve of Alice seems to be phenomenal, partially forgivable by the whole additional experiments they do in-between movies (explained early on in the movie).
I realize that there may be some plot gripes on this one, but watch "The Black Hole" and "Supernova" from Sam's Club "Sci Fi Four Pack Collectors Set" and you'll have a hard time putting this movie down. For me, it was a welcome break from mediocrity, and heck--it's just fun to see zombie creatures shot in the head (you don't feel guilty for getting pleasure out of seeing dead walking things shot in the head) and women as the heroes (men still dominate the hero genre, so for me change is cool). Awesome, can't measure up to the original or the video game, but awesome.