blakematthewtompkins Review of Disaster L.A.

Disaster L.A. (2014)

Strongest Opening of Any Zombie Movie Ever Made, But...

[2/10 · 5 April 2015]

This film had one of the strongest starts to any zombie movie I have almost ever seen. It commits to a good realistic and believable shock and awe tactic, and does great at holding off zombies until the perfect moment, not too early in the film, and not too late. It really shows the epicness of disaster in the making. After the first 10 - 20 minutes, however, this film slowly and majorly begins to get ridiculous and silly. The characters act like they don't even know how to fight or survive, which a teen/college man living in the US would surely know how to do - it seems not one character in this show is even barely smart in terms of surviving or fighting. I don't think there is even one scene in this movie that one of the main characters actually steps up and takes a zombie down before it attacks. Every scene there is a zombie fight, the survivor always just lets it attack them and doesn't even barely try to stop it. Also, from the opening, the plot and the story becomes highly screwed up in a lot of ways. Also, what the hell is with all the unneeded sacrifices? 2 or 3 characters die in the same way, by departing the group and fending a hord of zombies in a act of "saving the rest of the survivors" when every single instance every survivor could have easily made it out just by running without needing someone to stay behind to save them. Not to mention how worthless and unfulfilling the ending is. So, they get to the beach, then it just ends, like so what? Just because they are on the beach they are safe? They are within walking distance from a skyscraper... I don't know. I have to say, that this is a decent movie none-the- less, and is worth watching, even if just for the opening. Even for a low budget film, at least they show decent looking explosions and effects. Most low budget films like this one might just display the sound effects.