Zombies Have Fallen (2017) User Reviews

Zombies Have Fallen: 2017 really isn't shaping up as a good year for movies

[Platypuschow · 2/10 · 7 November 2017]

This British north east made zombie film was made on an estimated budget of £500! If this is true then it's very impressive, but that is the only thing that is.

A mercenary gets brought out of retirement to protect a girl who displays psychic powers from an unscrupulous shady organisation. They go on the run with your generic black wearing henchmen at every turn.

Oh, and there are zombies for some never even remotely explained reason.

The acting is amateurish, the effects are dreadful and the movie simply isn't exactly very engaging.

From the cover art I expected something more, and by something more I mean anything.....something! This right here is a mess and a further example of why I tend to dislike UK cinema.

The Good:

Cover art is interesting

The Bad:

Some really bad acting

Zombies are dreadful

Doesn't explain much

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

The cover art is better than the movie

People with psychic powers can turn folk into zombies for some reason

Cheap Scottish zombie antics

[Leofwine_draca · 2/10 · 9 April 2017]

ZOMBIES HAVE FALLEN is a very cheap British zombie movie filmed in Scotland and on a very low budget indeed. The plot attempts realism by having a lot of set up and scenes of supposedly important characters discussing matters in board rooms and the like, but the zombie content is low. When you see the quality of the acting from the actors playing the zombies you'll understand why.

It takes about half the running time before things kick off with a zombie outbreak in a church, a set-piece which is fairly well handled considering the budget. The main character is a psychic to boot and the actress they've chosen for the role isn't too bad, but the film is too repetitive and unconvincing to really work. It reminded me a lot of HAROLD'S GOING STIFF but made without that film's angle so that it becomes another generic and forgettable zombie movie.

A low budget movie with very little going for it.

[P3n-E-W1s3 · 2/10 · 1 May 2017]

With a title such as this, I was looking forward to a parody of Olympus Has Fallen and London Has Fallen movies. An agent on the attack against an enemy that outnumbers the good guys. This is, on one level, what you get; on another level, it doesn't come anywhere near the standards of the Hollywood movies.

Don't get me wrong, I know this was made on a shoestring budget as it's painfully obvious when you watch it. Some of the locations are dire. There's an opening scene where the director of the pharmaceuticals company who is holding Kyra to observe her psychic powers, gets into a lift. This appears to be a grimy car park lift they used one Sunday morning when no one was around. The director's office is a small room with crappy office tables and nothing on the walls... maybe he sold the stuff to make the film(?)

The zombie effects are also very weak and could have been done by the actors themselves as there are quite a few varying designs, the best of which you only get to see for a few seconds.

Sam Fountayne, who directed and wrote (under the pseudonym Sam Hampson), gives the audience a run of the mill film with no special or attractive camera shots or angles. Along with the cast's below average acting skills, it makes the movie bland and boring, even when the action hits the screen. This is a shame as the premise of the story could offer the viewer an entertaining hour and a half if everything had been done better.

A girl with psychic powers has been discovered, she is taken to a laboratory where she is watched and trained to utilise her talents to her best ability. She arranges a breakout and all hell ensues as the company try to recapture their number one asset... Wait a minute that sounds all too familiar...

Ah... That's right...

Watch Stephen King's Firestarter with Drew Barrymore and Keith David rather than this. There are no zombies in Firestarter though the premise is the same as Zombies Have Fallen. However, the director can direct and the actors can act pretty well, oh yeah Stephen King can write one hell of a story.

Another good thing is the poster for the film, though I cannot help but think they knew how bad the movie was so they altered the title from Bad Blood, to make use of the popularity of the "----- Has Fallen" movies. I actually prefer the Zombies poster, it's a little more dynamic - so yay for the artists.

It's a shame this film wasn't given the cash influx it deserved as it could have been so much better.

Clean up on aisle 2

[nogodnomasters · 2/10 · 23 July 2017]

Kyra (Tansy Parkinson) has telekinetic power and has been the test subject of Raven Health. She escapes and Raven sends men after her. She is aided by mercenaries because umm, it is the right thing to do? The film is a cat and mouse chase. The zombie aspect (not true zombies) enters into the film at about 47 minutes changing the film from a bad thriller to a bad campy film. Bagpipes with one of the pipes being a gun? and then a flamethrower? Rifle flashes didn't match the bullet sounds. Sound was bad or uneven for much of the film. The acting was as bad a a Utah production. Some of the sound track is one riff looped. I didn't understand the sudden change in the film from serious to camp. It was like it was written and directed by two different people...or one person with a serious issue.

Guide: no swearing sex or nudity.

Not even a Zombie movie.

[tbrunningbare2 · 2/10 · 30 July 2018]

The whole summary of this movie is misleading. The only thing they got right in the summary is that this woman, Kyra, has some sort of supposed powers. We never really get to see any of these alleged, end of the world flashes, which was disappointing. They took a strong but often used plot and totally misused it. By the time I found that I had been misled I was already invested and hoped that the world would end, but I was let down on that one as well.

Very amateurish

[mlbit · 1/10 · 10 August 2018]

Very low budget, but surprisingly good camera work and effects, however painful to watch and listen to the horribly and in many instances ridiculously written dialogue , "shes my property" in a sinister northern drawl, if it wasn't so sad you would burst out laughing.

I didn't expect quality but I would have like to hear the dialogue.

[georgieab · 1/10 · 3 August 2020]

I know dialogue in these kinds of movies is not high quality writing but i'd still like to hear it. I "watched" this as I wanted something silly to listen to as i cleaned but the vocals were so low i had to drastically increase the volume and then all "action" scenes were so loud it was painfully uncomfortable. At one time I thought the movie had stopped but when i looked at the screen i only knew they were talking as i saw their mouths moving . I was looking for a waste of time movie and got one that just was so just irritating - then i actually started watching it. It was so bad and i was so annoyed, I finally just fast forwarded to the end - i had to finish it - compulsions and all that. There were some nice sceneries at times.... it would have made a great spoof, Thriller could have been playing in some places.

worthy of praise for......

[FounHUGO · 19 February 2019]

At least the producers did not shamelessly ran to brush their points, which is worthy of praise.

Knowing the background, I should be more charitable...

[moorek · 1/10 · 22 September 2020]

When I came on IMDB to write this review, I read the trivia and saw that this was just a local, small town, family film. In that regards, it was likely fun to make and the overall quality didn't matter.

Sadly as the viewing audience, I didn't come to the move to watch a small town production. And even if I did, a movie like Hungerford can show you can make an entertaining film with non-actors. You just have to remember things like plot and dialogue.

The movie started out okay and I was actually pleased with it. Clearly it was a small budget production and the initial plot was a little disjointed but you could follow it. Then it just goes off the rails.... why the main female character decides to attack her protector's friend; why and how did she turn them to zombies; the zeal in which the friend is killing people that are likely his family and his in-laws; why the main male lead hooked up with the villains of the piece and then why did the main villain attack him and why did the main character want to kill the girl at first but not at the end, etc.

What did I like? Some of the scenery. Some of the aerial shots were nice. Some of the forest shots were nice. The main lead was the director and writer's father and not an actor but there was something about him that was likable - even if his storyline is all over the place. The female lead was supposedly newly out of the lab and exposed to the world but seemed to get along very well in it. Going from an unsure escapee to a leather glad, gun toting, psychic warrior in a day or two. But there was an element about her that was likeable.

But none of the few things that were tolerable makes up for the overall mess the movie is. If it had stuck to just the rescue and attempted recapture of the main female character then it might have gotten away with being a low grade B movie. This is not really worth your time although it is free on Prime.

To My Shame

[bemyfriend-40184 · 4/10 · 17 February 2021]

I found this flick on Tubi, streaming for free. To my shame, I was attracted to the poster of the pretty girl, in tactical gear, clutching a handgun. To my disappointment, I began watching a film I had seen on YouTube. The girl has psycho-kinetic powers, which somehow tie in to a zombie outbreak. No tough-girl run and gun. The film was predictable, and unlikely. I watched the whole thing before. This time, I skipped through. Happy ending, which is always nice. She was a nice girl, you know?