Apex Rising (2016) Reviews

• looks like it was made by a group of friends on a phone camera.

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  Terrible dialogue Terrible effects Terrible sound Terrible camera-work. Seriously - reading the phone-book would be more entertaining. This starts off with a few B-movie clichés (stranded girl in car, stupid girl who does nothing but screams, stupid girl who screams to ensure she attracts wrong attention, stupid girl who trips on nothing and suddenly can't open car doors etc, etc) then gets worse from there, with long periods of agonizingly stilted dialogue interspersed with tedious low-budget "action". The budget is so low, that even the focus and sound are poor. The special effects seem to consist of shaking the blurry camera while people scream off shot and the makeup looks like someone got a sharpie set out. Get 90 minutes of your life back - avoid this turkey.

• Who would do such a thing?

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  The film opens with a plane crash in Long Island in 1976, an early zombie attack and then goes to Jamestown, N.Y. where the zombies appear after walking underwater from Fire Island. While Jamestown has a lake, it appears a bit land locked from the ocean/ Great Lakes and is at the opposite side of the state. Perhaps this was some kind of comedy spoof. This bad geography is followed by a good zombie autopsy. The zombies are given a drug to control them, which makes them stronger and smarter. Later, there is a large human/zombie hybrid population of people in their 20's and the same guy has been mayor the whole time and keeps thinking about running for governor and no one else has aged either. The plot is rather long and has a lot of parts. The mayor is the head of a crime family which also controls the serum for the zombies, no FDA testing or approval required. They want to make the hybrids part of society, yet tattoo a bar code on their forehead so everyone knows. This was a massive undertaking for a low budget indie. The film tried to say too much with too little. I liked James Carey as the scientist, even though they gave him some bad lines. Overall the acting was bad as was the narration. The sound was uneven with low budget wind sounds against the microphone during the fishing scene. The cause of the zombie outbreak is given as the right combination of chemicals and poisons in our environment, yet the zombies only seem to be in Jamestown. They are called "infected" but there is no viral transmission, but people are afraid of them as they would be an HIV person. Politics is overtly satirized with way too much explanation.The plot holes, the plot shifting, the length of the production, the low budget acting makes it a difficult watch. Apex, refers to the alpha species on top of the food chain. On the plus side, no swearing, sex, or nudity. Could be used for insomnia as a chemical alternative.

• Clever tongue and cheek satire of mans inhumanity to fellow man

  spaceraid-301372017-07-14

  The movie has hundreds of cast members, locations and twists and turns that surprise the viewer. Its clearly a tongue and cheek movie with dry and subtle comedy thru out yet conveys a scary massage about mans in humanity to fellow man. Watch for the twists and turns that surprise you. I really enjoyed this movie and recommend you give it a try.