I killed something! ... An hour of my time.

Rating: 1/10 (8 November 2010)

Someone will probably be expecting this review... to be another nerd-filled rant about how this movie series has deviated strongly from the source material to make it easier and 'fun' for people who have no idea what a Playing Station or Nintendumb is. In a way, you're right. I only enjoyed the first movie of the series, and the second was decent, but the addition of a super model with bare bones for boobies who has one of the craziest last names I can't pronounce was something I thought was lame. Taking her out of the mix, I can say without a doubt that I found these movies to be of the C-grade material: they're not as moving as Dawn of the Dead, and they're not as sugar-high as 28 Days Later and it's sequel. This is a generic 'scientist corporation makes an Oopsy' zombie movie that we've seen in the bargain bin many, many times before.
However, today I'll be reviewing the third movie. Am I the only one who found this movie to be a little... short? I like the concept of a major city to be completely rundown thanks to a zombie horde, and I especially dig the fact that the entire world has been dried up and drained of all it's vital resources. However, I find it a bit disappointing that Las Vegas was completely drenched in sand. I don't know exactly how this was possible, and I wish time could have been taken to explain this in fuller detail, or perhaps at least - use Vegas as it was. I know it's been done before, but... it's Vegas, man! Second to New York, the city that never sleeps! I would have loved to have seen showgirls, strippers, Elvises, and celebrities all going out for some zombie action. This is made up for in ZombieTown.
My second biggest gripe has to be... the final 'boss'. Alice goes in to fight a Tyrant monster reminiscent of the one from the second game, but the fight doesn't last too long. After battling her out in maybe two rooms, they enter an exact rehash of the mansion from the first movie. Following this, the same laser-laden room which chopped most of the security team into itty bitty bits. Needless to say, this same attack defeats the Tyrant (Doctor British Stereotype) and we have a happy ending.
Somehow I kinda expected a more thorough hunt-or-be-hunted, cat and mouse, sort of thing here. I imagined boss battles to be a bit more tougher than this.
Overall, while I can't say the movie is godawful... this felt, as have the others, more like someone's off-shoot fan-fiction continuation. And those who support this movie, well... fit in the same group as the dimwits who like this sort of thing.
Anderson, Mika whatever the hell your name is - I AM DISAPPOINT.