Release Date:
Friday, March 14, 2008
Directed By: Neil Marshall
The Skinny: One of those movie viruses that turn people into pepperoni breaks out in Glasgow, Scotland, forcing the government to wall up the city and declare everything inside lost. Years later, a cop (Rhona Mitra) is sent back inside to track down a cure and discovers a lawless land of cannibals, freaks, and other assorted Scots.
The Good: Everything ripped directly from Escape From New York, which is…pretty much everything. From Mitra's eye patch to the untrustworthy government to the tracking device to the arena fights to the dance numbers to the… You get the point. At least Marshall comes clean by naming one of the characters "Carpenter."
The Bad: Most of it, but what did you expect? This is the kind of B movie Planet Terror was poking fun at. So it's two hours or so of ridiculous, gory violence; brain-dead plotting; horrible acting; and strippers. You were expecting Daniel Day-Lewis?
Nagging Question: If the survivors became cannibals because they had no other food supply, how do you explain all the cows? Um, Captain Mohawk, there's a burger less than a mile away. No need to barbeque that dude.
Theater, DVD, or Watch on TNT in Five Years?
Don't kill yourself making time for this. Catch it on TV.
The Skinny: One of those movie viruses that turn people into pepperoni breaks out in Glasgow, Scotland, forcing the government to wall up the city and declare everything inside lost. Years later, a cop (Rhona Mitra) is sent back inside to track down a cure and discovers a lawless land of cannibals, freaks, and other assorted Scots.
The Good: Everything ripped directly from Escape From New York, which is…pretty much everything. From Mitra's eye patch to the untrustworthy government to the tracking device to the arena fights to the dance numbers to the… You get the point. At least Marshall comes clean by naming one of the characters "Carpenter."
The Bad: Most of it, but what did you expect? This is the kind of B movie Planet Terror was poking fun at. So it's two hours or so of ridiculous, gory violence; brain-dead plotting; horrible acting; and strippers. You were expecting Daniel Day-Lewis?
Nagging Question: If the survivors became cannibals because they had no other food supply, how do you explain all the cows? Um, Captain Mohawk, there's a burger less than a mile away. No need to barbeque that dude.
Theater, DVD, or Watch on TNT in Five Years?
Don't kill yourself making time for this. Catch it on TV.