Almost Dead (2016) User Reviews

You might end up wishing you were fully dead and not just almost dead...

[paul_haakonsen · 4/10 · 24 November 2019]

With this 2016 movie "Almost Dead" being a zombie movie, of course I would sit down and watch it, as I am a big fan of all things zombie.

"Almost Dead" did have some parts to it that were interesting. They weren't many, and they weren't enough to make up for all the shortcomings that the movie suffered from.

What went wrong with the storyline in "Almost Dead" from writers Giorgio Bruno, Davide Chiara and Daniele Pace is the fact that the complete story takes place in or in the close vicinity of a crashed car, with a couple of zombies milling about outside. It was just too ludicrous and nowhere near fulfilling enough to maintain a feature length movie.

Plus the fact that the script was watered down and basically so simple that it could have fit on a single A4 piece of paper didn't really help to improve on the movie's entertainment value.

As for the acting in the movie, well it was semi-adequate, taking into consideration the severe limitations in terms of a poor script, an almost non-existing storyline and characters that were blank sheets of paper.

The zombie make-up was sort of adequate, but we weren't really treated to enough zombies to actually get to see an abundance of zombie make-up. But at least you knew it was zombies.

The ending of the movie was actually the best part of the entire ordeal that is "Almost Dead". I will not spoil anything, so you have to endure through the movie to get to it.

The movie's title is quite fitting, as almost dead is how you'll feel once to you through the 1 hour and 25 minutes the movie runs. This 2018 zombie movie from director Giorgio Bruno is hardly a mentionable addition to the zombie genre. It is a movie that came and left without as much as a groan or a bite.

I am rating "Almost Dead" a generous four out of ten stars solely because it is a zombie movie and it does have some bright moments - they weren't many - but they were there.

HORRIBLE

[katie_d_photography · 2/10 · 31 March 2019]

Even if the story was decent, the characters of the movie are a different story. The main character is so annoying that you wish she was bit or killed. I don't know if that's the way she was written or if it was the actress but I wish she had died. That's how bad she is. I only stuck with the movie because I wanted to see what happened. If your bord watch it but I'm warning you...you'll want to reach into the screen and kill her yourself.

I'm going to tell you the end

[armadilla17 · 2/10 · 10 July 2020]

Just some forewarning but I'm going to spoil the whole movie in this review to hopefully save other people the hour-and-a-half of misery that I just went through. Some people me like this movie this was not my cup of tea. Every negative review on here is true it's entirely shot in a 25-yard radius of a wrecked car in the middle of the Woods I don't know how the car got that far off the road it's a bit crazy. This true she whines and cries you're 90% of the movie but I don't agree with other people saying she's a CDC scientist so she should be hardened what they forget is she had amnesia from the accident so this is kind of reset her, imagine waking up with no memory being surrounded by zombies would be kind of freaked. **************NOW FOR THE END*******"""**** I don't know if this is the big twist that other people are talking about I didn't find it a twist at all and I think it's a bit unbelievable as well then after being told she had the antidote somewhere with her that she took the wrong bile off of her brother-in-law which she let die and get eaten by the way only to find out the very last minute that she's wearing the freaking thing around your neck the whole time give me a break and then movie cuts to her wandering along with the zombie horde end credits

Slow, but decent setting if you can ignore the terrible lead character (Spoilers)

[tkell31 · 5/10 · 12 July 2018]

I can understand the low rating based on people expecting a normal action packed zombie flick and/or a lead character you weren't hoping would get eaten so someone else could take the role. This is more like one scene stretched out to let the director go into detail about one person's encounter with the apocalypse.

A woman with her mouth duct taped shut and arms tied together regains consciousness in a car that hit a tree at least some distance into the woods. The driver appears dead and our protagonist is left to explore the surrounding area with an injured leg and a flashlight adding to the eerie nighttime setting. A nearby torn up dead body tells us there is more going on than just a traffic accident or some weird attempted kidnapping. Some temporary amnesia (a weak plot device admittedly) from a head injury form the accident prevents the main character from recalling exactly what is going on, but by the fifteen minute mark it's pretty clear it's serious and she has to take shelter in the car as the undead start to show up.

What develops is an increasingly desperate situation, terrible acting, and inane dialogue.

Some of the story is moronic like her getting out of the car to walk ten feet to find a friend on the phone (where did he come from?) and the lead actress is pretty terrible, but the the grim situation she finds herself in is firmly in the spirit of a zombie outbreak.

Tip to the Director - your lead character cant be a Dr who works at the CDC and completely pathetic at the same time. It's not consistent because they are generally pretty competent people trained to deal with emergencies. The accent didnt help matters. Like why would she have a thick accent and her sister speak perfect English? For that matter, saying nothing would be better than some of the terrible lines she delivers.

Okay, it's pretty bad, but if you use your imagination to picture it having a good script and being well acted it would be a good setting for a movie. Eight stars for the genre and setting, 1 star for the terrible lead actress, execution and script.

All the main character does is cry and sit in a car

[gary-erwin · 1/10 · 18 April 2019]

If your into a crying hot mess with amnesia that sits in a car than this is the movie for you!

The best way to massacre George Romero's work and memory was Giorgio Bruno...

[vjdino-37683 · 1/10 · 5 June 2020]

The best way to massacre George Romero's work and memory was Giorgio Bruno, who has the presumption of declaring himself a director!

Terrible Acting-Terrible editing, boring story.

[cocherdumas · 1/10 · 29 September 2018]

This is The worst movie I have ever sat through. I wanted to see what the twist at the end was, so I forwarded through the whole movie. The acting is terrible. It doesn't make any sense. This Doctor Who works for the CDC should be confident, and should have the need to help people. But not this one. Plus she has an accent and her sister doesn't. Yet they work in the same place. This movie is a waste of time.

Two million for this ?

[dan-bgb · 1/10 · 21 July 2019]

It says that the producers spent 2 million on this. It certainly wasn't on the script, the actors or cinematography. As someone previously said, it's basically a crying hot mess in a car. Not only is she pathetic, but annoying as all hell. And why is it that she has an strong accent, but her 'sister' doesn't ? The worst part about the film was the utterly wooden voice acting from everyone that happens to call our protagonist. It got so bad I literally had to put it on mute and read the captions. (most people will know the difference between the words 'mutating' and 'muting'...except a scientist in the film). I don't say this very often...but this movie is truly a waste of time.

It started out interesting but...

[mommylady · 2/10 · 21 February 2022]

Oh this went south so quickly. I made it 30 minutes in before I just couldn't take any more. The dialogue is confusing and redundant, the characters are just endlessly repeating themselves in a louder voice, but the real hill I just couldn't get over was the main character. From the first frame she is unlikable and irritating and it just gets worse and worse. I enjoyed the ambience of the movie simply because I love the fog, but that's truly the only thing I can say for this mess.

Disappointing

[iluvjodi · 2/10 · 17 March 2022]

Slight Spoilers - The main characters constant whimpering and crying got old real quick. She locks a guy out of the car to be killed by zombies, then later cries and hits a different guy who does the same thing to her. Calling him a p.o.s. The people that call her on the phone either sound robotic and overly enthusiastic. What's up with all the different accents? Even amongst the two sisters. It's like every person is from a different part of the world. The story/plot is forgettable. The dialogue sounds like a fifth graders first draft of a play they're writing. It's just bad.

an intelligent genre movie with a twist that delivers.

[Michael-92-703468 · 8/10 · 1 February 2017]

The film is in the vain of 'The Walking Dead' but with a twist.

It is an intelligent, well executed movie that delivers what it says it does.

I will not spoil the twist in the film which takes you into a 'Walking Dead' style world but it is well done.

I was pleasantly surprised.

The film is well acted with a story line that works and well thought out.

I enjoyed it very much and the director is someone to watch in the future.

If you pick up this film you will not be disappointed.

Decent low-budget effort if still somewhat flawed

[kannibalcorpsegrinder · 6/10 · 1 February 2019]

Waking up in a wrecked car, a bound woman with no memory of her situation is suddenly thrust into a fight for her life when she discovers a series of flesh-eating zombies swarming around her car and must use what little resources she has available in order to stave off becoming one of the undead herself.

This was a surprisingly enjoyable effort. What really works nicely for this one is the unique setup that starts the film off which gives the film a mysterious start. Taking the idea of her being in the middle of the woods, completely unaware of what's going on and must first free herself and then try to get her bearings while the zombies start coming appearing on the scene. Alongside the phone calls she continually tries to place in order to understand what's happening, this setup offers an intriguing start to things. That turns the action in these scenes to be highly enjoyable. The main setting off a crashed car in the woods offers up plenty of nice scenes where the zombies swarm around the car and take on a series of frantic confrontations as they attempt to break in. The first encounter with the doomed fellow survivor and the failed escape that have to force them back inside offers a nice starting point for some of the later action where she has to stop the infected who were in the car with her. Armed with a finely emotional finale that gives this a nice gut-punch while also displaying some really effective zombie make-up and gore, these all help this one overall. There are some flaws to be had here. The main issue is the fact that the film can't really overcome its low-budget limitations. The fact that this one has to stay inside the car and rarely ventures outside as this only manages to feature several sojourns outside the car, and even then it only lasts for a few brief moments before retreating back inside, leaves this one quite obvious with what's going on. Likewise, with well over half the movie featuring her on the phone learning about what's going on with the backstory about the virus that eats up the running time without having a lot of zombie action present here which keeps this one down for the most part. The other real flaw here is the lack of rationale given the story that is just hard to grasp. The main problem with that is the fact that a big deal was made of her phones' battery about to die, yet without charging it they're able to talk the entire movie which really is quite a huge error to overlook. On top of that, the whole point of the conversations in the first place offers up an endless round of questions that range from in-universe questions to filmmaking tactics, going so far as to include why they continually switch accents for the characters during the conversations. It's all rather suspect and really holds this one back.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.