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Dead Rising: Watchtower (2015)
It's decent
I'm a big fan of the video game. So I hate to say, I did have high hopes for this. But then lost some interest when I saw Crackle was doing it. But after watching it, the movie isn't great, but isn't that bad. It has a decent story and pretty good acting. I'm not sure why Virginia Madsen was in the movie though. Didn't like the bikers in the movie, but I can see where they came from the game.
One of the biggest downfalls was Frank West, from Rob Riggle. I do like Riggle, but I never pictured him playing that character. It just didn't seem right at all.
Overall, for a video game movie. It's better than a lot of the big movies that have been released. I would probably watch this again.
The Dead Will Rise 2 (2013)
Waste of my time
I am all for low-budget movies. That is the beauty of finding stuff on Youtube. You will see all times of low budget movies. So I really do have a high tolerance to bad movies. But Dead Will Rise 2, I can't forgive at all. This movie is without a doubt the worst piece of crap, I've ever seen in my life. It is like the director or in this case directors, didn't care about anything about this movie. You have a "zombie" movie where you have the same zombies throughout the movie. It is very easy to tell, they recycled zombies around. The movie pads its run time with a 10-minutes of a little kid talking to the camera. I had to fast forward that part, because it was a complete waste of time. There is also a park scene at the beginning that MAKES NO SENSE! Maybe I need to watch the first one, to understand that.
Then we get to the special effects. We have an arm ripped off and zombies rip open the stomach. It is very clear that the arm was totally fake. They made no effort to making it look real. The zombies ripping open the stomach, looked cheap, with dollar store effects. I couldn't tell if it was sausage or what. But it was absolutely terrible looking.
There was even a shot of a zombie sitting in the bathroom. How did a zombie get trapped in a bathroom and decide to sit down on the toilet and wait for the door to open? Horrible attempt a cheap jump scare.
I haven't watched the first movie and I'm very hesitant to even check it out. What's funny is that there is a writer for this movie. There is no script for this at all. The dialogue is sub-par at best and the story drags on. The pacing is the biggest killer of the movie. A lot of things that don't make sense at all. I'm not trying to totally discredit the movie. But the lack of effort put forth in this movie, is terrible. The editing, lighting, sound (all from the camera by the way), directing, "writing", and acting are just horrible. I am all for independent filmmakers to make movies. But this isn't even worth trying.
STAY AWAY FROM THIS MOVIE!!!! This is without a doubt the single worst movie I've ever seen in my life. I've checked out their other trailers and they look equality as crap.