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It's the near future, and the world is overrun by zombies. Scientists
on Alcatraz, one of the last safe havens, try feverishly to perfect a
serum to heal humankind, but it's no use, the zombies eventually overrun
Alcatraz, too, and the humans, led by scientist Lynn (Mariel Hemingway)
and army tough guy Caspian (Danny Trejo), decide to abandon the prison.
All but Doc Halpern (LeVar Burton), who figures if he locks himself in
with a few zombies safely tugged away in their cells, he might not only be
able to survive but to study the zombies better. He has sentimental
reasons, too, one of the zombies is his daughter (Kerisse Hutchinson) ...
who of course after initial successes to turn her human again, will kill
Halpern. Back in San Francisco, it's not long before Lynn and Caspian
butt heads - while she wants to go into town to save a certain Doc Arnold
(French Stewart), who's also working on a cure, he wants to make a
straight-as-an-arrow trip to a camp of survivors, to save his hide at any
price. Much to his dismay, his second in command Marshall (Ethan Suplee)
decides to go with Lynn, just because it's the right thing to do. Caspian
and crew soon enter a seemingly abandoned building ... and are soon all
but one killed by the zombies. The one, Kyle (Chad Lindberg), eventually
makes it to the camp ... to find out it has long been overrun - and he
almost pays with his life finding this out, too. Lynn and her group run
into ambush after ambush, she loses quite a few teammembers, including one
(Heather Hemmens) through suicide, and they have quite a hard time to
follow Dr Arnold, who seems to have relocated several times. And one time,
they are actually saved by Kyle, who just happens to drive by. Ultimately
they make it to Dr Arnold, but he proves to be a bit of a difficult and
eccentric fellow - but he seems to really have developed a serum to make
immune against the zombie virus - and he has a helicopter on the roof to
fly everybody to safety, to maybe save humankind from a safe place,
wherever that might be ... Given the many poor zombie films
around, Rise of the Zombies is actually a rather decent genre
entry, as it features an intelligent plot, a host of interesting
characters, well-placed shock scenes that never seem gratuituous, plenty
of suspense and atmosphere but also enough gruesomeness to meet genre
requirements. Add to this a competent cast (even though Ethan Suplee can't
always make one forget he was Earl's brother on My Name is Earl)
and you've got - well, no masterpiece, mind you, while it's very well-made
it doesn't exactly score high on the originality-meter, but it's, as
mentioned above, still a rather decent piece of zombie entertainment.
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