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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.