Review: Made for Hollywood
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 19, 2012
Essentially, my feedback for the first Deadlocked short could be carried forward almost verbatim to Deadlocked 2. It's a fun, roller coaster ride of a story. Wise actually responded to my first feedback warning that Deadlocked 2 moves at breakneck speed. He wasn't kidding. But, that's also where I think things go a bit awry. It's so fast that the characters started taking on super human traits, completely unintentional (I assume), due to the sheer momentum from the pace. I don't want to give away too much of the story here, but let's just say I had a "Resident Evil" flashback at one point in the story. I started getting this mental image of Laura as Alice (the heroine in Resident Evil films). Zombie fanatics will know what I'm talking about. Alice becomes too super human to make the plot suspenseful in the later Resident Evil films. Nothing phases her. She's practically unstoppable. That's sort of what happened in Deadlocked 2. So what's the problem? Well, with regard to films like Resident Evil, there are 2 camps of zombie enthusiasts. There are those that think it's fun and entertaining, and then there are others zombie purists who feel its departed too far from the roots of zombie based horror. I felt Deadlocked 2 kind of suffers from a tinge of the same effect. Some will find it fun. Others will find Laura a bit unbelievable. Yes.. Yes, I know. This is a book about zombies, how realistic can it be. Well, it should be realistic enough that readers could believe such an apocalyptic scenario may somehow be possible. That's the horror isn't it?All this aside, I am looking forward to Deadlocked 3. Guess you know which camp I fall into.