Some barrels that contains nuclear waste that re-animates the dead are brought from Chernobyl, Russia to a big corporation in the States. When some youngsters are out riding their dirt-bikes, one of the guy's has an accident but instead of being taken to a hospital, he's taken to the corporation that experiments on the dead. His friends sneak in to the corporation in order to free their friend, but at the same time they accidently release a horde of brain-craving zombies.
One thing is for sure, you won't get any smarter watching Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis, chances that you'll get dumber are pretty great though. Being a big fan of the 'trilogy', I of course wanted to check out this fourth installment in the series even though, in the back of my head, I knew it was not gonna be that good. Problem though is that this movie was not just slightly below what the three previous movies were, it was actually quite awful and it's a shame that it's supposed to be the 4th movie in the series. When writing this I haven't seen the fifth movie yet, but I'm not sure I want to see it after that I had to sit through this shitty flick.
It follows in the same footsteps as the previous movies, dealing with toxic waste and zombies craving brains, but that's all. Other than that it has nothing in common with anything from the other flicks, and is truly a huge waste of time as well. Even though we eventually get some zombie action, the movie starts off really bad and you get this negative feeling which is not a good start. It takes almost about one hour for something interesting to happen, but when it finally does, you're already so freaking bored since you had to sit through so much shit, you couldn't give a damn about the rest. And when I say that something interesting happens, it's not really interesting, it's more that something actually happens.
The story is complete crap with a bunch of teens sneaking into a corporation in order to free their friend who has been taken there. And while doing that, this retarded group releases a lot of zombies and has to fight their way out, and that's about it. Now these teen characters are a horrible bunch of über-idiots and it's hard not to get pissed off while having to watch them and see them 'act'. There's no character development whatsoever and you couldn't actually care less about what happens to anyone of them. Infact you want to see them killed as soon as possible since they suck so hard.
These characters are actually worse than your normal bunch of stereotypical teens. The acting is so wooden it's amazing, and that goes for every character in the movie, not just the teens. A lot of movies feature some bad acting, but here it actually goes beyond just being bad, it's actually quite painfull having to watch it at times. This alone manages to ruin the whole movie, even though it has a high number of other flaws and failures.
The gore is there and we get to see a whole lot of head-shots and some fine brain eating, but in the long run it's just not worth it. The make-up's pretty good and the gore looks really good at times as well, but other than that Necropolis is just pure garbage. It takes way too long before things actually start to happen, and when they finally do, they prove to be not that entertaining after all. Secondly the acting is so darn awful that you won't believe it till you see it. And third, it's a shame to see this as Return of the Living Dead 4 when the first three flicks were so great.
While the gore is somewhat decent, everything else is just complete garbage and this should not be considered part of such a great series. It's just 88 minutes long, but it's some truly boring and pointless 88 minutes to sit through, so do yourself a favor and avoid it.
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MOVIE YEAR: 2005
DIRECTOR: Ellory Elkayem
WRITING CREDITS: William Butler, Colton D. Cotton
GENRE: Horror, Zombie, Sci-Fi
CAST: Peter Coyote, Cory Hardrict, John Keefe
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: 88 min
RATING: 0/10
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