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Navy Seals vs. Zombies (2015)
It has its moments
The premise of this movie is actually pretty good, but it suffers from frequent bad scripting and bad acting. Don't get me wrong, some of the acting is great like the writers and actors were actually on the same page, but then it's like they walked away and the amateurs took over.
The zombies were OK, they too suffered from some that were really good at it and some that just showed up from a LSU football game the night before.
The best part is the combat sequences that looked really good but it wasn't enough of it. If you have nothing else to do, I mean nothing else, then watch it once. I mean really once.
Transcendence (2014)
Interesting idea but very disjointed
I came into this movie having read all of the reviews over the past year. It's not a bad premise but at times the script was weird. First, the main character Will, is shot with a radioactive-laced bullet. For an anti-technology terrorist group, that was pretty high-tech. Very difficult for anyone to get that material, let alone a ragtag group like RIFT. But, so far, so good. Even the part where his wife wants to keep his consciousness alive. Then it gets stranger with his friend getting kidnapped by RIFT and we see 2 years evaporate while Will creates his new world. I'd be mighty angry to lose 2 years of my life living in a cage too.
In that time Will's AI grows and by this time he can do many things. At first I'm thinking OK, fine. But he starts to cross that ethical line between sanity and insanity. At least the script brilliantly muddied the waters. Was Will becoming more machine than human or were the humans becoming more machine? By the end, Will chooses his friend over humanity and his wife. I'm not sure that ending is logical. The life of one man versus all of humanity?? And the idea that a couple of FBI agents can make the decision to end life as we know it without approval of someone higher in rank is perplexing. This isn't a decision to be made lightly.
In the end, you are left wondering what and why happened. I actually had to re-watch the ending to see what I missed. He had enough energy to either upload a virus to end himself or save his friend. Huh? Couldn't he ended himself instead? He could have had his minions cut the power or disarm the woman that had a gun trained on his friend. Instead, he gave up. Maybe in the end he figured humanity wasn't worth saving and decided to destroy the technology that created him. Novel idea and I'd like to see what the Millenials would have done the moment they were cutoff from Facebook and their phones:-) I gave it 5 stars for a few good moments but enough bad to say I'm glad I didn't spend the money to see this in the theaters.