Zombies are everywhere, roaming the earth and it's up to one man to destroy them. But when some bounty hunters show up, things takes a turn for the worse. They shoot him, steals his money, but apparently he can't die and when he wakes up he seeks them out to take revenge.
Are you tired of zombies? I know I am. There are of course some great old zombie flicks out there, but most of the new ones just seems to be repeating themselves, "borrowing heavily" from Romero, while bringing nothing new to the scene. Quite frankly, I'm getting bored having to sit through these types of flicks. Not saying that all new zombie films are bad, but most of them has nothing to offer that we haven't seen before and keeps showing us the same slow-moving, flesh-eating, tired ol' zombies doing their "thing" in one film after another. It sounds like I hate zombie movies, but I really don't and while I didn't hate The Quick and the Undead, I sure didn't like it much either. It delivers nothing new, except for maybe the combination of zombies and the whole cowboy thingy, but hey, you'll have to do a lot better than that Mr. Nott.
The Quick and the Undead has close to no plot whatsoever and it truly shows all the way through the film. Instead of focusing on a good (or even ok story for that matter), the film-maker apparently set his focus on filling the movie up with a lot of meaningless scenes that were very unsatisfying to watch. If you don't have a proper story or anything going for that matter, maybe you weren't meant to make a film in the first place. Even though the bar might not be set very high when it comes to horror, you still need something to make it work, and this movie had more or less close to nothing. It angers me quite a bit that there are probably a lot of talented folks out there who could write up stuff that would whip this movie's behind. But the fact is that most of them probably never gets the chance to prove themselves, and instead you have stuff like this coming out. It sure is a strange world we live in.
 
Story-wise, what we have here is some kind of cowboy on a motorbike with a guitarcase full of guns. His mission seems to be to rid the world of zombies, and they seem to be everywhere, tearing away at any humans that comes near them. On his way into a small town, he run into some Spanish dude who he has made a deal with. When arriving in the little western-like town, he starts putting meat out on the street and soon there are zombies all over the place, feasting on the street buffet that the cowboy set up for them. While they're busy eating, he starts shooting them in the head, one by one. Ok, so the man is one cool dude, got it. Some bounty hunters that should win some prize for lousy acting comes along, shoots our hero(?), steals his cash and leaves him to rot. The Spanish man betrayed him, steals his jacket and hat, but later the cowboy wakes up, because apparently he can't die. He finds the Spanish guy, takes him hostage and lets him lead him to where the bounty hunters are.
Dealing with a zombie movie, it has some gore to offer, and even if that looks all right it's just not reason enough to watch this film. Other than that, the story is ridiculous, the action scenes are boring and so are the zombies. The acting, well, I don't feel like wasting more time complaining since I already wasted enough time watching this film. It's just not a very good film and it really has nothing going for it.
It's too bad that movies like this are being made and I can't for the life of me see how anyone could possibly like this. What it comes down to is that, even though it's not very long, this film is just a huge waste of time. Avoid.
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MOVIE YEAR: 2006
DIRECTOR: Gerald Nott
WRITING CREDITS: Gerald Nott
GENRE: Horror
CAST: Clint Glenn, Toar Campbell, Dion Day
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: 80 min
RATING: 1/10
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