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Throwing around buckets of blood isn’t enough to give life to this brainless low-budget British zombie action horror.

A crack army unit have 72 hours to rescue a scientist from a quarantine­d London, which has been overrun by heavily armed criminal gangs and viral-induced zombies whose lingering memories of their humanity means they can still use automatic weapons.

The enthusiast­ic cast are drawn from the ranks of prowrestle­rs, martial arts champs, models and bring yourown-zombie-costume amateurs... but very few actors.

They stomp their way across a wretched wasteland of low-level video game-style action scenes, agitated editing, saturated colours, cardboard characteri­sation and deathless dialogue.

Laughably poor from start to finish, the unintentio­nally funny line “We’re here to evacuate you”, carries far more threat than any of the bad guys manage to achieve.

A huge debt is owed to Danny Boyle’s magnificen­t 28 Days Later, and I feel bad even mentioning the two films in the same sentence.

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