Virul6345 Reviews

Freeloaders (2012)

Not a Broken Lizard Movie

[4/10 · 1 September 2012]

I love all BLs movies so I was looking forward to this since I first heard about it a couple of years ago, but I was surprised to see a rating of 1.6 on IMDb (gone up to 2.5 today).

Well if like me you were looking forward to BLs newest offering, prepare to be disappointed, it's only produced by them and isn't written by them, directed by them or starring them and it doesn't have any of that BL flavour with the exception of the one scene that they are in.

Overall the movie isn't too bad and it will kill an hour and a bit of your time, but that's about it. The story is predictable with no real surprises and there's no real laugh out loud moments.

The cast are all pretty good but there's just not a whole lot for them to do. And if you're an Olivia Munn fan, she's only in it for about 2 minutes.

Maybe some people will like it more than me, although judging by the IMDb rating I wouldn't bet on it, but overall the film just left me with a sense of 'meh!'

Osombie (2012)

Not bad at all

[7/10 · 22 May 2012]

I went to the bother of signing up just to review this 'cos i think it deserved more than the 4.5* it has.

Firstly this is definitely a B-movie so u have to go in expecting that. I usually don't like B-movies like you get on SyFy but i do like zombies movies so i thought i'd give this a chance, and i'm glad i did.

The premise is pretty simple... a group of soldiers looking for a militia base in zombie infested Afghanistan. Sure its silly but it works fine.

At first i thought the acting sucked but it wasn't long before i changed my mind, i'm not saying it's going to win an Oscar but it was a lot better than the crap SyFy puts out, i got the impression the actors had fun and weren't just phoning it in, and i found myself giving a crap about the characters. t's a pity that being a zombie movie so many people had to die because i would definitely have watched a sequel with the same cast.

There are some bad point sure, there are some major plot holes but i was kind of expecting that. I think the thing that bugged me most was the cgi, not the blood and gore cgi that was pretty good, but the helicopters that don't disturb the grass when they land and the cg muzzle flares rather than guns firing blanks. As most reviewers have pointed out the zombie makeup was pretty decent.

I don't know why people complain about the chick with the sword, the soldiers knew they were going to be going up against zombies and given that i think a sword is a perfectly reasonable weapon.

If you like B-movies or zombie movies definitely check it out, it kept my attention for the whole movie.