Fallen Soldiers

Anything that just even remotely reeks of being zombie, pardon the pun, and it is something that has my attention. I purchased "Fallen Soldiers" from Amazon, although it had only a lukewarm mediocre review. But the DVD cover looked interesting enough, and sometimes you do find a hidden gem among the rabble. However, "Fallen Soldiers" didn't turn out to be one of those moments.

The story told in "Fallen Soldiers" was adequate and entertaining, despite it being somewhat simplistic. However, the greater picture just turned out to be less impressive. The movie wasn't particularly captivating or thrilling. And I guess it was because of the mediocre acting and the poor special effects. But mostly it was because of the lack of zombies. There were less than five zombies or so throughout the entire movie, and the one portrayed on the DVD cover didn't even show up. Talk about false advertising, huh?

I will say that the movie-makers did manage to put together a somewhat believable atmosphere to the movie, because of the uniforms, costumes, sets and such. And that did help the movie along. Just a shame that the lack of zombies was an shackle around its creative foot.

And I was laughing hard at the scene with the reanimated desiccated corpse in the robe, especially because there was such a painfully obvious difference between the make-up on the live actor and the sculpting of the face when a puppet was used. It was two entirely different-looking zombies. It was just so bad that even a blind man would notice it.

The effort was surely there in the soul of the director, but ultimately the movie turned out to be a less than mediocre result.

I managed to sit through the entire movie, and I can in all honesty say that I will not make a second viewing out of "Fallen Soldiers".