All All. Sign In. Zurn's short reviews. A collection of short "reviews" that are typically too short to submit as an official IMDB review. List activity. Author Michael Enslin specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences, checks into the fabled room in the Dolphin Hotel in New York City, settles in, and soon confronts genuine terror. It was entertaining enough. Virtually the entire movie depends on simply accepting for the sake of the movie that ghosts exist, so it really wasn't my thing, but I was apparently in a forgiving mood.
They do some cool things with that room, and John Cusack does a good job. Update: Bah, feel like dropping it to 5 now. Inspired by real events and people, 21 is about six MIT students who become trained to be experts in card counting in blackjack and subsequently took Vegas casinos for millions in winnings. Extremely predictable, a fair amount of cliched cheese, lacklustre acting at best.
Six months after the rage virus was inflicted on the population of Great Britain, the US Army helps to secure a small area of London for the survivors to repopulate and start again. But not everything goes according to plan. This movie is chock full of dumb people with a multitude of dumb plans. Not merely poor judgement, not simply lack of wisdom, not only hubris, but just sheer dumbness.
The scenarios and situations are beyond merely contrived; there is barely any sense in it at all. I'm not saying I dislike all contrived plots, nor do I insist on strictly logical writing, far from it. Irrational decision making is even realistic. But here there is It's a step above irrational, into non-sensical, disjointed, does-not-follow. And that's actually pretty important for a zombie movie; the setup is everything, no matter how ludicrous.
But let it at least be ludicrous, instead of A small-time rancher agrees to hold a captured outlaw who's awaiting a train to go to court in Yuma. A battle of wills ensues as the outlaw tries to psych out the rancher. I didn't expect it to, but it held my attention more and more as I watched. In the ancient battle of Thermopylae, King Leonidas and Spartans fight against Xerxes and his massive Persian army. It's not history. It's not ideology.
