“Zombie Nation”
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Rookie police officer Vitalio has been partnered with Officer Joe Singer for 2 weeks. Vitalio has begun to suspect something is not quite right because Joe is pulling women drivers over for no apparent reason, taking them to a warehouse then coming out with a large black duffel bag. Later it is reported that the women have disappeared. Getting no where with his immediate superiors, Vitalio goes to Internal Affairs.
This no budget indie flick is full of badly executed stereotypes and one dimensional characters who are painfully stupid. It seems that the film maker tried to create a complex story about a serial killer hiding in plain sight, protected by his brethren police officers, but ended up with a convoluted tale of jumbled images, jumping around with minimal explanation.
There is no chemistry among the cast, who try to do what they can with what they’re given(which is a steaming pile). The dialogue is largely inane. Though there are plenty of scenes of violence (mostly perpetrated by the police on the innocent for no apparent reason or by the crazy people who run the insane asylum). Then there is the VooDoo thing (“I”m not worried about my sister, she’s protected by voodoo” ). The writing, story, plot had a couple issues. These get gold stars – WTF is with repeatedly taking your freaking partner with you and having him wait in the car while you’re committing murder then getting upset when he comes looking for you? And WTF is wrong with that partner for not recognizing those same women as the missing women being reported at your precinct?
The low budget is clear, especially in the “police station” with it’s office cubical style partitions for walls and large pipes running along said walls. I would normally consider this a creative use of space except for the fact that they appear to have run out of paint in one of the “offices” which ended up being distracting. The music was interesting, ranging from metal to techno pop to what sounded like a Muslim call to prayer.
This film is the dregs and drips at the bottom of the glass. If you feel the need to watch all things zombie, go ahead, it may amuse you. Once was more than enough for me.
