Osombie (2012)
2/10
Exploitative propaganda, at least it thinks so......
12 September 2014
Warning: Spoilers
Dusty is on a desperate mission to save her brother Derek, a conspiracy theorist who is convinced Bin Laden is still alive, despite having been buried at sea.

She falls in with a team of NATO special forces on a secret assignment. Turns out Derek is not so crazy after all, and that Bin Ladan has returned from the grave, and is making an army of zombie terrorists.

When the group crash into the zombie army, Dusty and the troops must find and destroy the root of the zombie insurgency before it infests the rest of the world......

The extra star is for the first ten minutes of the film, its a brilliant high concept. Bin Ladan, knowing that his time is up, injects himself with obvious Zombie juice to make himself come back.

And this had me instantly intrigued. Could a straight to Blu Ray movie, that only cost me £1, be actually any good.

But the narrative soon laid rest to that. And as soon as the titular character fell into his watery grave, it's as if the makers have taken their one great idea, threw it overboard, and left it to drift away with Wilson the volleyball.

The rest of the film is literally a group if people, led by a shirtless bargain basement Colin Farrell wannabe, running into Afghan Zombies very five minutes and killing them, with the added bonus of awful CGI blood.

Once in a while, one of the group gets bitten, and the bloke with the bears tells a really weak joke.

By the time we get to see the titular character again, you couldn't care less what has happened, or what will happen, because you'll be asking yourself one question.

Who's drooling more, the Zombie or yourself out of sheer boredom.
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