Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis |
  • USA • 2005 • 88m •   • Directed by: Ellory Elkayem. • Starring: Aimee-Lynn Chadwick, Cory Hardrict, John Keefe, Jana Kramer, Peter Coyote, Elvin Dandel, Alexandru Geoana, Toma Danila, Diana Munteanu, Serban Georgevici, Gelu Nitu, Claudiu Trandafir, Boris Petroff. • Music by: Robert Duncan.     Julian and the few friends who managed to escape from Necropolis are all now in college and putting their Hybratech experiences behind them. But that doesn't last as accidentally Julian and Jenny discover a sinister chemical canister hidden away in a secret room. Trying to dissect this chemical, labeled as Trioxyin-5, they leave it with their friend Cody for analysis. Unfortunately, Cody quickly sees the potential to create a new party drug out of it and make himself some easy money. He lies to Julian and produces a huge batch of 'Z' that he sells across the college campus. As the drug becomes more and more popular and Halloween approaches, practically everyone in the college has taken a little 'Z'. As hundreds of innocent college students become brain hungry zombies, holiday costumes make it difficult to tell who is still alive and who is one of the living dead!
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The worst thing about this is all the utterly implausible things that happen. It's as if it was make for little kids, but considering all the blood and guts, that can't be right. We start with a guy who is riding a motorcycle at about 10 mph, then he falls over and slides to a stop. Even though he's wearing a helmet, he dies from a head injury. That's the guy that ends up in the experiment. Then we go over to another characters house, and his little brother is playing with a flame thrower, right in the living room. The father doesn't seem to mind that at all, but gets upset when the older kid asks if he can go to a concert or something. Then, being the international super-sleuths they are, the teenagers are able to hack into the Zombie Co.'s computer to find out what's going on, forge security access cards for themselves, etc. etc. etc. And once they break in, guess who they run into? The little brother with the flame thrower. Apparently all the teenagers in the city like to get their kicks by breaking into Zombies 'R' Us and climbing through the ventilation shafts.
If it hadn't been quite so stupid, it might at least have been watchable on a "so bad it's good" level, because the acting is really terrible and some of the European accents are completely distracting. However, it misses out on any camp value as well. This franchise did start out with Linnea Quigley giving us full frontal nudity, right? Here, you've got almost comically attractive girls, but of course, no sexy scenes at all, clothed or otherwise. In fact the girls are so pretty that it makes it seem all the more ridiculous that they're breaking into Zombies Inc. wearing mining helmets, beating up zombies, and hacking through databases as easy as logging on to the internet.
Considering all the absurd gaps in logic in the script, and the bad acting, and the fact that the kids are just about as un-engaging as it gets (does anybody actually relate to a group of really really cute teenagers who have all the skills of the Central Intelligence Agency?), I just can't see any reason at all to sit through this.
Review by gtc83 from the Internet Movie Database.
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