Well Edited But Not Much Else

Rating: 5/10 (3 March 2013)

This is one of these films that got hyped to high heavens when it was released in Britain and thought it might have been simply down to being a British film that did well at the box office . Strangely becoming a cult hit on the international scene didn't tarnish its reputation and it spent several years in the IMDb Top 250 and now all most ten years after its release it still has an average user rating of 8 . Very strange
I say very strange because it's not really a film I have ever got in to . I think it's because the plot is a one trick pony - man wakes up to find zombies roaming around and doesn't realise it until it's almost too late . It's very often a bad idea when segments of a film has the audience one step ahead of the characters . Perhaps not so much a bad idea but the makers have to do something to grab the audiences attention and here in my opinion they've failed . There's also the added problem that Danny Boyle's quasi Zombies that can run faster than an Olympic sprinter had come out at the same time so the undead here who stagger around aren't much of a menace to the characters
If the film has anything going for it then it's the editing which is quite impressive as one scene segues in to another but apart from that I wasn't too impressed by any other of the aspects of the film . A lot of people here have mentioned Channel 4 sit-coms such as SPACED and BLACK BOOKS which other shows I've found it difficult to get in to so I guess the producers know what their market is