Against the Dark

2009 "He lives by the sword. They will die by it."
3.1| 1h33m| R| en
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When most of the population of Earth is infected by a virus and transformed into flesh eaters and blood drinking creatures, a group of hunters lead by Tao and his sword chase the vampire zombies to eliminate them. Six non-infected survivors try to find the exit of an abandoned hospital crowded of the infected creatures. Meanwhile, the military is ready to bomb the whole area.

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Pluskylang Great Film overall
Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.
Candida It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.
Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
John Smith A virus has wiped out most of the world's population. The virus turns its victims into blood thirsty zombies and is spread by fluid contact into a cut or wound. There is no cure. The military are trying to control the virus by destroying infected areas. A team of zombie hunters are conducting a sweep of a zombie infested hospital for survivors before the facility is bombed by the military.The movie was released direct to video and had a budget of $US7 million.The zombie hunters led by Steven Seagal are constrained by the virus, so there is minimal physical contact during the fighting and the predominant use of guns and a long (kitana) sword (although knives are also used).The film (horror genre) creates tension through use of dark lighting as the survivors make their way through the locked down hospital with the power threatening to fail, while under constant attack by the zombies. The hunters meanwhile are trying to find them. And the military are about to destroy the building.The script however is the biggest problem. There is inconsistency about those infected - are they zombies, mutants or vampires. Steven Seagal's fights are constrained to a sword and shot gun by the threat of the virus, and not the usual hand to hand combat, which is fair enough. However he appears to have attempted to reduce the visibility of his weight gain by wearing a full length leather coat. The survivors never pick up a club to defend themselves and have a habit of constantly getting separated from each other as a plot technique to create additional tension. There is plenty of gore - low budget gore however.If you ignore the script and ignore the survivors that don't know how to defend themselves and have many lucky escapes, the film does create tension and has plenty of gore. As a fan of Steven Seagal, I have given a generous 4 out of 10.
poyrazbaklan Apparently someone in the studio came up with a brilliant idea, casting Steven Seagal against the vampires and just shot the movie in a day. There is no script, no character and no action. Seagal just tries to look though but his moves and his lines are as old as he is, he barely fights, just swinging his katana between takes and he unwillingly delivers his lines. The characters and background is never explained. Are these zombies? Vampires? what about the rest of the world? At first they look mindless beasts, but then they speak and outsmart the characters. There is no strong character(Seagal's black sidekick excluded)all of them stand there to say a few though lines, stand up straight and then get cut down in the next scene. And what is Keith David doing there? He has a small role but he stills shows up enough to make you think he overacted for such a small budget and campy film. Even if you are a fan of Steven Seagal or zombies or both(a steven seagal turns into a zombie film would be sweet though)stay away from this one.
Nick Damian What can you expect?People die, more people die, then somebody gets bitten and someone else dies. No special plot.No special turn of events.No special effects or snappy dialogue.Like almost every other zombie movie you've ever seen. A true masterpiece in the art of zombie movies which revolve around the same worn out plot, time and again.Do not expect anything else any more interesting.Why are zombie movies even made any longer? If you've seen one, you've seen 10 000.Somebody - please come up with something new to this bleak and tired genre.
Eviljanis Steven Seagal Vs Zomb...Vamp...Mutants?Movie tells a familiar story of a killer virus mutating people and few survivors trying to, well survive even more. There are all so "hunter" who just walk around the city killing Zomb..Vamp...Mutants? Well really one character does the killing, and its not Segal...I don't really know why they call it a Seagal movie because Steve is not really the main character, he is just walking and attacking the camera grew, he only has few lines and don't have much screen time. Movie would been much better if Tanoai Reed were the main character, because that dude fighting was the only thing i liked this movie.Something about the survivors? Well they run a lot and have no homing instinct, i see lots of maps on the hospital but no one is taking one with them.... I wonder how people with no weapons could survive in this Zomb...Vamp...Mutant? infested world.This was a really sad movie... 2 points to Tanoai Reed, give this dude all the movies Seagal tries to do.