For all its drawbacks, it had some worthwhile elements, too.
Films often suffer for lack of money. And it showed in this. It's not the fault of the Director. He can only work with what he has. But the movie suffered as I didn't latch into the scope (big or small) of the zombie outbreak. Everything was remote and small. I would have preferred a scene in a town. At least one.
I'm not going to belabor the story. Zombies in the old west. I'm a sucker for zombie movies as I think it's an interesting metaphor for society and is a variation on a disease threat. A walking disease.
I did like the structure of having these long vignettes. They would dwell on pacing but then latch into something different. Lose wife and look for kid. Find kid and then have goal of burying his ashes at the waterfall. Find motivation helping the new friend. Going back and rescuing the girl. Going over 80 minutes was ambitious for this sort of movie and it somewhat paid off.
The pain of the lead was initially interesting but ended-up being way overused in the end (i.e. the screaming in anger). But a good amount of human moments that did pay off.
A good collection of older B actors.
But I don't really think there was an epilogue. The scroll had that the zombies were walking in present day but they never took care of tying that together.
The book aspect of telling the story was interesting.
And the animation worked, even though it was likely a cost-cutting measure.
Films often suffer for lack of money. And it showed in this. It's not the fault of the Director. He can only work with what he has. But the movie suffered as I didn't latch into the scope (big or small) of the zombie outbreak. Everything was remote and small. I would have preferred a scene in a town. At least one.
I'm not going to belabor the story. Zombies in the old west. I'm a sucker for zombie movies as I think it's an interesting metaphor for society and is a variation on a disease threat. A walking disease.
I did like the structure of having these long vignettes. They would dwell on pacing but then latch into something different. Lose wife and look for kid. Find kid and then have goal of burying his ashes at the waterfall. Find motivation helping the new friend. Going back and rescuing the girl. Going over 80 minutes was ambitious for this sort of movie and it somewhat paid off.
The pain of the lead was initially interesting but ended-up being way overused in the end (i.e. the screaming in anger). But a good amount of human moments that did pay off.
A good collection of older B actors.
But I don't really think there was an epilogue. The scroll had that the zombies were walking in present day but they never took care of tying that together.
The book aspect of telling the story was interesting.
And the animation worked, even though it was likely a cost-cutting measure.