Monday, March 14, 2011

Dead Man Walking (2005)

The opening scene to this movie is one of the best openers that you will ever see for a zombie movie.  If you like uncontrolled camera movements and lots of senseless violence, this is a movie for you.
 
We arrive at Harwood Maximum Security Prison after watching a man shotgun four people coming after him,  had some blood splatter on him, and he is now sick.  When he arrives at the facility, he is sent to the infirmary to be checked.  He tells the doctor that he has been infected by an experimental bio toxin that transfers through body fluids.  After he pukes blood on the doctor, he is sent to solitary.  On his way to solitary, he pukes on several other prisoners.  
 
You can already see what is going to happen here, don't you.
 
Yep, the prison has to be put on lock down while the prisoners riot and also begin eating each other and the guards.  The zombie roller coaster keeps going along, getting just about- everyone in the prison infected.  From the family who came to visit their loved one, to the conjugal visitor, and even the warden's son, no one is safe.  Yeah.  Bad day for "bring your kid to work" day for the warden.
 
Like other movies before it, the real action doesn't happen until you are close to the end of the movie.  That's where the over the top gore comes up.  Intestines being eaten, forearms being ripped off.  Part of just about every modern zombie movie out there.
 
For the introduction to the movie, I give it 5 out of 5 shotgun blasts.
 
For the zombie action, I give it 2 out of 5 zombie children.
 
For the unnecessary and completely senseless violence, I give it 2 out of 5 arm bites.
 
For an average rating of 3 out of 5 maximum security prisons.

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