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Pretty Good

There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Intro begins with your typical scientific breakthrough news clips with opening credits. Now, before I continue, I should state that I watched this movie without English Subtitles, so I didn't get to follow much of the story, (the zombie outbreak is explained through Chinese characters), but after living in China for almost 4 years I understood some of what they were saying.The first moment where you think "should I turn this off and just watch something else?" is minutes into the film, but stick through it. The woman is incredibly stupid, acting as if it's the first time she's seen zombies when it's clear the whole city of Taipei has been devastated by them. When her rescuer arrives, that's when you're left a bit intrigued.The biggest problem I found was the sound. There are moments where you think "this scream metal music should be louder to accompany the action" but it's not and the kicks and punches sound like they were done using an old Casio Keyboard. And the human actors making zombie sounds is bad..."and you should feel bad"-ZoidbergSex plays a heavy part in this film. If you've ever watched apocalypse films and thought "If that were me, I'd be hording beautiful Asian woman and raping them on a daily basis" well then this films for you. In fact, I'm tempted to believe that the zombie apocalypse was just a front for the director to fulfill his life long dream of directing snuff films. I just watched "I Spit On Your Grave" and that film has nothing on this one. These scenes will give you that uncomfortable boner that you hope no one else watching with you will notice. But...the action sequences fall flat. The jokes seems as if they were written 15 years ago (KEVIN SMITH REFERENCE????) and you don't really give a crap about who dies, in fact when they do die you barely notice since there's constantly new characters thrown in that I can't even remember what happened to Sniper Chick (a staple in China) or the little boy's Mama. There's a black guy in there who jumps around everywhere, even when he doesn't have to, but he's kind of likable. I wasn't surprised at all that this film managed to find a Japanese villain, after all, it is a Chinese film, but those who have never lived in China wouldn't get it anyway, so it's a plus for me.I'm left with some questions in the end though, as I'm sure those who watch it will have, such as WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DAUGHTER??? and Why did that guy become a RESIDENT EVIL BOSS FIGHT AND WHY DID THE OTHER ZOMBIES ATTACK HIM. In the end, it's just another zombie movie from a different perspective. I need to learn more Mandarin.TL;DR Moderate budget Taiwanese zombie flick with a low budget minded)or (or experienced) film crew

There's no way to ease into this review so I will come straight out and say that this movie is terrible. There is nothing vaguely resembling a cohesive story, the acting is atrocious, the special effects is laughable and there is no "horror" in this supposed horror movie. I am guessing the Director (and I use that term very loosely) is a Quentin Tarantino fan as he really tries to play up the over the top violence (and fails). He must also be a closet pervert, why else would he need to include the activities of a kidnapper/murderer/rapist/child killer character throughout the story? He is shown doing the kidnapping, killing, raping in graphic detail - thankfully though, the child killing is only discussed and not shown.Perversions aside, there is no "bite" to the zombies. Instead of showing zombies attacking and biting and gnawing and chewing people, zombies are shown attacking and then the scenes are cut. Huh? Showing young girls being brutalized and raped is OK but zombies "doing their thing" is not? Clearly there is a problem here. What we are left with is aftermath shots of zombies pulling and eating sausages out of bodies. Great.If you haven't seen this movie, don't. There is a far superior zombie program on television called "The Walking Dead" that I recommend for getting your zombie fix. I also strongly recommend to the Director of this horrible feature, Joe Chien to stop making zombie movies until he has studied "The Walking Dead" as well.

To begin, I am pretty surprised by the number of topless scenes in the film. Hmm, in my humble opinion it didn't go too well with the zombies film. The plot is shallow and lacked conviction. The zombies are turned in split seconds which is kind of fast, isn't it? The zombies make-up are sub standard. The speed the zombies are rotting, guess it wouldn't last a day; should see more skeletons instead.I watched it in theater and I feel I didn't get my $$ worth. Kinda low budget production film. Nevertheless, it's a good zombie start for Mandarin films. Hope it gets better on the next zombie film and no sequel please.Wait for DVD, I would recommend.

There have been an increasing number of cheesy, low budget zombie films made in recent years, such as THE ZOMBIE DIARIES and APOCALYPSE OF THE DEAD, films which offer their own minuscule-priced takes on the classics but often falling down due to the poor expertise of the crew members making them. ZOMBIE 108 is no different, and in its defence it attempts to rip off not just one genre but instead three distinct ones, with generally poor effects.Firstly, it's clear that somebody watched and enjoyed THE RAID before they made this, because half of the characters are SWAT team members whose long-running feud with some ugly gang members provides a backdrop to the zombie action. Then we have the zombies themselves, the usual bunch of shuffling, entrail-grabbing monsters, who always seem to appear in badly-edited montages. This effect may be utilised to hide the rubbish nature of the zombie makeup.Finally, if that wasn't enough, writer/director Joe Chien throws in a flesh-masked pervert who keeps a dungeon full of chained naked girls and uses zombies to power his own electricity generator! The Texas CHAINSAW influence is clear, but it means that, tonally, the movie is all over the place, ranging from the ridiculous to the repulsive. One moment we're sitting through another hackneyed zombie attack and the next we're watching this slobbering rapist having his way with a naked and nubile young woman. It's pretty nasty.Thankfully, the film is so poorly made that none of it means much, and even the sicker moments are amusing rather than disturbing. Joe Chien acts like an overactive child when directing, with his irritating jumpy editing and choice of death metal to irradiate the ears of sensitive viewers. The film is littered with amusing errors, like somebody turning into a zombie complete with decayed makeup in the space of two minutes, and more bad acting than you can shake a stick at. My favourite character is the black guy, a wannabe Parkour expert who does these little jumps over tables and the like in a bid to convince us of his athletic abilities; such moments are truly hilarious.The novelty factor is that this is Taiwan's first zombie movie, but unfortunately it lacks any cultural awareness or difference to the bog-standard low grade horror film from any country on this earth: people running around aimlessly and doing very little. It's a bore.