Well not a great movie but not a terrible one. I felt this movie dragged and went nowhere, which is a bit of a surprise for me since the running time was only 85 minutes. Horror movies usually have this time slot which allows you meet the meet the characters too quickly and then boom! - shit hits the fan. Instead the director tried to develop the characters and be artsy with glimpses of New York City here and there. I was surprised by all this because Fear.net said this was a rat zombie movie which sounds like a total recipe for an entertaining shitty movie. Instead, if I wanted to watch a movie about rats and zombies why don’t I just watch a documentary on NYC where the rats lift weights and are the size of dogs (sorry Boston I think the Big Apple has bigger rats)? Likewise, the city that never sleeps is bound to have someone who walks like a zombie since they haven’t slept for some time.
While I can’t necessarily say I want my 90 minutes back after watching this rat turd sandwich, but instead though, “what the hell did I watch?” You took a while to introduce characters and build relationships that went nowhere and then threw in an unexplained outbreak of flesh hungry rats that bite people, who then turn into human rats that eat people. To sum this movie in 6 words: Rat Zombies Dark Fast Camera Scenes. I think one of the dumbest parts of the movie was when the main character Clutch is going out to rescue the lady he is interested in, who is trapped in a bar. His weapon of choice….his fist! What are we fucking Chuck Norris here? Dude you have knives, chair legs, and since you’re in a shitty apartment most likely a gun nearby. But no, we are going to use our right and left hands to bash in rat zombie heads. You are most likely going to cut your hands while beating some zombie into cherry pie and then get infected and then eat your damsel in distress. So in the end I give this movie a 2.5/5 axes. I felt this movie should get some credit. First, the idea of rat zombies, I have to hand it to the creator, not even I could of brain stormed this absurd idea. Second, the rat zombie’s costumes were not all that bad since the movie budget was around $60,000. I felt this movie was trying to capture a 28 Days Later feel, but didn’t quite make it because of budget restraints.
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