BRAIN FREEZE
I had high hopes for this Quebecer zombie film based on the fact that the last undead oriented endeavor to come across the border—2017’s Ravenous—was pretty damn bueno.
Sadly, this effort starts out mildly promising and then just deteriorates into a hodge lodge of tired tropes. It doesn’t help matters much that it gets bogged down in long, drawn out sequences where literally nothing happens. That and the gore is sparse, as are the thrills and any modicum of tension. And never mind that the film borrows liberally from the likes of Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, and Z Nation, without bringing much newness to the proverbial table.
To top it all off, there’s an uninspired through line of nationalism (i.e. racism), classicism, and corporate greed, all of which are meant to be thoughtful social-political commentary, but come off as lazy and rote, instead.
The editing is uneven, there are interesting subplots that are brought up, but never followed through, and even the film’s twist ending is lame, predictable, and has been done before.
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