While taking advantage of the holidays to watch a few movies, I came across IMDb's reference to "La Horde", a French movie about "Zumbis" (which I find acceptable, since "zombie" was originally a French word - from Haiti, to be more precise, and refers to a African super-hero that would rise from the dead and free the slaves... but that's another story). Well, the production, acting (superb!) and the CGI are impressive and faultless, but... Here there be spoilers! - who were the guys? - what were they doing there? - they said they were family... brothers? cousins? lovers? - how did the hostage become a zombie? - how could the entire city become a bed of flames in a few minutes? - why would all the zombies in town gather around a specific abandoned building among several abandoned buildings? - how did everybody inside turn into zombies? - why did the women's pregnancy be such a conflict between those guys? - why/how did the guard keep all those heavy guns? in France? - why did the white dudes pick the heavy guns and the black one pick a machete? - why were they trying to get out of a building with a few zombies to get outside to a world under a zombie rampage? - why, oh why!, didn't they spend a few more minutes on the script?
Half a dozen incredible French actors, the same number of clichéd characters (the French brute, the crazed African, the fat drunk and ugly Legionnaire, the bitchy French woman), and a very good movie that, on my opinion, beats several of the same coming out from Hollywoodland.
Some criticize the woman for killing the black criminal once they reached the outside; for me, it was the only thing that made sense in the whole movie: she went there to get him and, after the criminal killed the father of her child, that was the only way out. But didn't she realize the shot would attract the zombies?
Well, it was only a movie. So I give it a 5.
Half a dozen incredible French actors, the same number of clichéd characters (the French brute, the crazed African, the fat drunk and ugly Legionnaire, the bitchy French woman), and a very good movie that, on my opinion, beats several of the same coming out from Hollywoodland.
Some criticize the woman for killing the black criminal once they reached the outside; for me, it was the only thing that made sense in the whole movie: she went there to get him and, after the criminal killed the father of her child, that was the only way out. But didn't she realize the shot would attract the zombies?
Well, it was only a movie. So I give it a 5.