Versus

Right, Finally got my hands on Versus (There was no way I was shelling out £16, so I waited), I'd heard good things about it. I couldn't remember what good things, but I had heard them. It's a Japanese zombie filck. I eagerly fired up the DVD player last night and settled down. Within seconds I thought "Damn, this is rubbish", and it got worse, and worse, and then it hit me: this is a B-Movie. A real honest-to-goodness B-movie, as all zombie flicks should be. It had it all, bad acting, bad effects, bad stunts (Wirestunts where they've made no attempt what so ever to hide the wires) added to cheap martial arts gumf. Think Romero meets Samo Law meets Thunderbirds.

Ace.

Double Ace.

Where's the slow mo' button?


Zombies, Guns, Zombies with guns, Swords, Zombies with swords, Zombies with sword AND guns, shots lifted from Frank Miller comics and then repeated over and over, a man in too tight trousers, versus has it all.

******* ' ' ' 7/10 (sooo close to 8/10)

R-Point

R -Point Bills its self as a Korean Apocalypse Now, but sooo not. A team of soldiers are sent back to an area of 'nam to see what happened to a team of soldiers. Obviously as this is a horror/thriller things go pear shaped. A bit too formulaic, some nice touches but generally can see most of it coming. There are also a few bits where you're shown letters or signs with no translation so you left wondering how important a plot device you've just missed. Not the hottest film from Korea in the past few years.

*****' ' ' ' ' 5/10