A terrorist steal a nerve toxin from a secret military base and is later found dead, infected with the stolen chemical. When cremating the corpse of the terrorist, the virus is released into the atmosphere on the small island that they're at, and soon people start to mutate into zombies. A group of three soldiers on leave team up with some tourists they run into. Trapped in the middle of it all, together they have to try and fend off all the zombies that surrounds them.
If you're looking for a whole lot of zombie action, Zombi 3 might be quite a good pick as there are a hell of a lot of zombies in this movie, at all times. Although, I can't really say that the movie is very good, it has its ups, but it also has a lot of downs. But considering the amount of actual scenes involving zombies, the movie's never even close to a snore, and compared to a lot of other zombie flicks, Zombi 3 is fast-paced all the way and has the so needed gore as well.
While it has a lot of action, gore and some nasty stuff, you can never escape from the acting being completely horrible. It is so wooden and bad that it actually becomes good after sitting through a half hour or so. Don't get me wrong, the best word to describe the acting is that it's complete shit. But at times the acting is not the biggest thing when watching Zombi 3 as it's a whole lot of fun and has so much stuff going on that will make you forget about the terrible actors. All the action and flesh-eating scenes kinda takes your mind of just how bad the acting actually is, and makes you focus more on what's going on for the moment.
There are some movies out there where the acting is so bad that you can't seem to focus on anything else, how good the story even might be. With Zombi 3 it's the other way around, the acting's crap but it's easy to forget about it at many times since the movie has a lot of entertaining stuff going on. And secondly, you kinda expect a movie like this to feature some bad acting, if you were expecting an awesome performance from the whole cast to begin with then you were definitely looking in the wrong place. Ever heard the expression so bad that it's good? It's not exactly like that here, but still not too far from it.
The story is really simple but makes for an entertaining zombie movie that features both fast and your "normally" slow zombies, most of the latter. On a secret army base in the Phillipines scientists are working on a bacterial warfare virus called 'Death One' that is later stolen by a terrorist. The terrorist runs out into the jungle and is being chased and manages to break the box containing the virus and so gets infected. When later found, they cremate the corpse and the ashes are spread through the air, contaminating the entire population of a nearby village. Suddenly everyone starts turning into flesh-eating zombies, and the army seals off the area and send troops in to exterminate the problem. Trapped in the middle of the infected area are a group of three soldiers and some tourists that has to try and make it out alive with both the military and the zombies against them.
Like I said before, there are a hell of a lot of scenes involving zombies. They show up everywhere at all times, attacking whoever's nearby. A lot of scenes has no real suspense to them but a few of them have. There's especially one scene that feels a bit creepy when a soldier falls into the water and three fast zombies shows up chasing him there. Thing is that the water is shallow so they can walk on the bottom and do not have to swim, and you know how hard it is to walk fast like that, so that definitely adds some tension. There are also some other cool scenes where people being ripped apart, a girl gets her face ripped etc. If you're into over-the-top gore, you'll probably have a good time watching Zombi 3.
Not Lucio Fulci's finest moment, but Zombi 3 is still a movie that manages to be quite entertaining. It has a lot of over-the-top gore and almost constant action. There are not too many slow moments to be found during its running time so it never feels dull or anything. Although, some things you've seen a hundred times before and brings nothing new, but it still manages to stay somewhat interesting the movie throughout. The acting is worse than one could've imagined, but all the action makes up for it a bit and help you forget just how bad the acting really is. If you're into zombie flicks, you should check it out.
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ALTERNATIVE TITLE: Zombie Flesh Eaters 2
MOVIE YEAR: 1988
DIRECTOR: Lucio Fulci
WRITING CREDITS: Claudio Fragasso
GENRE: Horror, Zombie, Action
CAST: Deran Sarafian, Beatrice Ring, Ottaviano Dell'Acqua
COUNTRY: Italy
RUNTIME: 95 min
RATING: 6/10
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