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2012: ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE (aka ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE, 2011)

Directed by Nick Lyon
Written by Brooks Peck & Craig Engler
Starring Ving “MuthaFukkin” Rhames, Taryn Manning, Lesley-Ann Brandt, Lilan Bowden

Lifting from pretty much every zombie film you and I have seen is the almost immediately outdated 2012: ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE. Not a bad film–actually quite fun, in a lowbrow sort of way. But nowhere near the top of the zombie film list.

2012: ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE starts out six months after the initial outbreak after a quick montage catches us up about a plague resulting in the dead walking and running about. Soon we find Ving “MuthaFukkin” Rhames bashing skulls with a sledge hammer with a band of survivors that look like they’ve leapt from clothes catalogs with trendy clothes and hairstyles. Rhames plays his usual gruff self, a role we’ve seen in many zombie films by now, while the rest of the cast do their best lining up to be eaten one by one at the zombie all you can eat buffet.

One thing that bothered the hell out of me about 2012: ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE was that the actors in this film could have used a weapons coach. SPARTACUS’s Lesley-Anne Brandt tries to do her best Michonne from THE WALKING DEAD but swings her sword as if she doesn’t want to break a nail. Lilan Bowden is abso-tutely smoking hot, don’t get me wrong, but obviously has never shot a bow and arrow in her life by the way she holds it. Others use their weaponry as if they’ve never fired weapons in their life, yet, go figure, their accuracy with these weapons are spot on time and time again.

But aside from that, 2012: ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE is a fun movie as long as you aren’t expecting anything too innovative. It’s your typical fight zombies—walk—fight zombies—talk deeply about stuff—fight zombies film with no real resolution or theme other than lining up the next zombie attack. The effects are pretty well done, though some of the computer effects are a bit distracting. Plus it’s got a zombie dog and a zombie tiger in it and Ving “MuthaFukkin” Rhames with a chainsaw, so it can’t be all that bad. Don’t want to heap too much praise on this by-the-numbers zombie flick, but 2012: ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE hits all of those numbers decently and will sustain interest on a boring Sunday afternoon.

Check out the trailer here!!